For over a decade, DAWA (Danmarks Adressers Web API) has been the default way Danish websites and systems handle addresses: autocomplete in checkout forms, address validation in CRMs, geocoding in logistics apps. That era ends on 1 October 2026, when DAWA shuts down and traffic is expected to move to the newer Dataforsyningen platform — with different endpoints, different authentication, and a migration burden that lands on every team that ever pasted a DAWA URL into their code.
If your site or system uses DAWA, doing nothing means broken address fields on a date that is already on the calendar. The official successor requires registering for tokens and rewriting the integration to new response formats — perfectly doable, but it is real work, and most teams have more urgent things to build.
That is why we built Danadresse.dk as a drop-in DAWA replacement: the same endpoints, the same response shapes, the same autocomplete behaviour — you change one base URL, add an API key, and everything keeps working. It serves 2.7 million Danish addresses with roughly 70 ms median autocomplete latency, and the data is refreshed continuously from the official sources. You can test it live on the site without creating an account.
Whichever route you choose, our advice is the same: migrate now, not in the last week of September. Inventory every place your systems call DAWA (search your codebase for 'dawa.aws.dk'), switch the base URL in a staging environment, and verify your address forms end to end. The whole exercise usually takes under an hour with a compatible API — and if you would rather have someone do it for you, LynBro handles DAWA migrations as a fixed-price task.