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2023

CZ.NIC is a partner of Czech Digital Week

During the event, the CZ.NIC Association will offer three lectures through its educational center, the CZ.NIC Academy.

The Czech national domain admin…

CZ.NIC cooperated on another season of the successful series Dataville

[Press Release]The popular animated series Dataville is returning to ČT :D (Déčko) channel with the aim of introducing young viewers to various areas…

Věra Mikušová from CZ.NIC was elected to the Steering Committee of the international organization TF

TF-CSIRT brings together security teams from Europe and neighboring regions and works closely with similar organizations around the world. The main o…

CSNOG 2024: The organizers have announced a CfA; potential speakers may register in three sections

Community meeting CSNOG 2024 will take place on January 23-24, 2024, at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.

Today, the organizers of the seventh annual mee…

CZ.NIC bolsters its .CZ DNS anycast by launching a new site in Sydney

The DNS node in the Sydney datacenter should help with better availability and lower query latency not only for the .CZ domain and its users, but als…

CZ.NIC Publications: Martin Malý’s new book will introduce you to Micro:bit in detail

The book is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users who already have experience with electronics and programming.

The new publication of t…

This Year's Internet and Technology Conference Under The Auspices Of LinuxDays 2023

The Internet and Technology (23) conference will take place on October 7 at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University (…

SIC ČR and CSIRT.CZ are to audit the security of webs and applications of educational institutions

The new service is intended to enable regular security checks of websites and other applications that educational organizations run and put online.

Th…

The CZ.NIC Association published an analysis of mail services in .CZ domain

The CZ.NIC association has released a new report from the ADAM project. Based on DNS MX resource records, it analyses the distribution of mail servic…

The IETF has approved a new Internet standard. Its co-author is Libor Peltan from CZ.NIC

RFC 9432 describes a method for transferring a set of configured DNS zones between primary and secondary authoritative DNS servers using so-called Ca…

CSNOG Community Meeting 2024 will take place on January 23-24 in Zlín

The mission of the CSNOG community meeting is to share experiences and practical solutions that can improve the quality of Czech and Slovak networks,…

CZ.NIC association marks 25 years since its foundation

On Thursday, May 21, 1998, the CZ.NIC association, the administrator of the Czech national domain was established. In September 1999 the association …

The CZ.NIC association was established exactly 25 years ago

On Thursday, May 21, 1998, the CZ.NIC association, the administrator of the Czech national domain was established. In September 1999 the association …

Organizers of the CSNOG 2023 have released the program and are encouraging registration

The administrator of the Czech national domain is one of the co-organizers of this fifth year, which will take place this year on May 16 and 17 at th…

CZ.NIC is further strengthening the anycast DNS of the .CZ zone by launching a site in South Africa

The connection of CZ.NIC DNS servers to the oldest peering node in Africa, which is the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), should help improve av…

CZ.NIC to co-organize LinuxDays conference

The Czech national domain administrator is one of the main co-organizers of the traditional LinuxDays conference. This year, the tenth iteration of t…

CSNOG 2023 Community Meeting Organizers Announced the Date of the Event

The fifth annual community meeting of network operators from the Czech Republic and Slovakia (CSNOG 2023) will take place on May 16 and 17.

The fifth …

CZ.NIC Association has become part of a consortium that will examine the concept of the EUDI Wallet

The EWC pilot project will focus primarily on the use of the wallet in the context of travel and the digital identity of an organization. Its outputs…

2022 Domain Report – Czech national domain in figures

The CZ.NIC association, the Czech national domain administrator, has published the 2022 Domain Report. The data shows that last year the number of do…

Ondřej Filip elected to the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Group

The MAG members represent the interests of governments, the private sector and civil society, including the academic and technical communities from a…

2022

The CZ.NIC Labs will be headed by Josef Chomyn, long-time Chairman of the Board of NIX.CZ

Ladislav Lhotka, the current head of the CZ.NIC Labs, will become the CZ.NIC Technical Partner, who will participate in selected projects, especially…

RIPE NCC Board Selects New Chair

The Executive Board is pleased to announce that Ondřej Filip has been appointed as the new Chair with effect from 1 September 2022. Filip succeeds Ch…

mojeID users now have access to public service web portals in most European countries

The mojeID service, with almost 870,000 user accounts, is the first non-governmental Czech authentication tool to enable this for Czech citizens.

Sinc…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

As of July 1, the CZ.NIC association has a new member. Gordian Investments s. r. o. has joined the Chamber of Domain name holders. The association ha…

The operation of the Ukrainian domain registry is ensured by servers in the Czech Republic

The project is coordinated by the CZ.NIC and NIX.CZ associations.

After the start of active hostilities in Ukraine, the CZ.NIC association offered its…

The CZ.NIC Association returned removed misinformation website domain names back to the zone

On May 12, the CZ.NIC Association issued a notice that unless the situation changes, i.e. unless the Czech national domain administrator receives an …

The ICANN Internet organization appoints Ondřej Filip as “Keeper of the Internet Key”

Tisková zpráva] Ondřej Filip became one of fourteen trusted representatives of the worldwide Internet community (Trusted Community Representatives), …

CZ.NIC called on the government to take a conceptual approach to the problem of misinfo domains

The intention of the CZ.NIC Association was to prevent the threat to computer security that was caused by the electronic dissemination of such inform…

Tomáš Hála joins the CZ.NIC Association. He will lead the administration teams

[Press Release]: Tomáš Hála, who has worked for many years at one of the largest Czech registrars Active24, has become a new executive member of the …

Ivan Bartoš introduced the Czech Digital Team, whose members include Ondřej Filip

Duties of the long-time CEO of CZ.NIC Ondřej Filip will include the Internet and its development.

Minister of Regional Development Ivan Bartoš, who is…

CZ.NIC to donate two million crowns as humanitarian aid to Ukraine

In the past, the Association has donated to humanitarian causes, for example after the tornado strike in Moravia or the devastating floods in Bohemia…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

As of March 1, the CZ.NIC association has two new members. ASPone, s. r. o. has joined the Chamber of Registrars, the eMan a. s. has joined the Chamb…

CZ.NIC blocked websites spreading disinformation concerning the russian-ukrainian conflict

After intensive consultations with the security forces of the state and on the basis of the recommendation of the Government of the Czech Republic, t…

2021 Domain Report: What was the past year like for the Czech national domain?

The CZ.NIC Association has published its annual Domain Report, in which it draws attention to interesting data associated with the .CZ domain. Last y…

Safer Internet Day 2022: What is the “Online World in Children’s Homes” like?

On the occasion of the international Safer Internet Day, the CZ.NIC Association published, through its Safer Internet Center project, the results of …

The community meeting CSNOG 2022 will take place in the second half of June

Letošní ročník komunitního setkání správců sítí z České republiky a Slovenska (CSNOG 2022) se uskuteční 20. a 21. června v Brně.

This year’s community…

CZ. NIC has connected the portal for Czech domain holders to the eIDAS network

In December, the Czech national domain administrator completed the integration of support for national electronic identities (eID) into the FRED regi…

2021

The mojeID service now offers verification at the level of assurance “high”

Activation of the level of assurance “high” requires the use of a user password and a physical security key with FIDO certification of the minimum le…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Web security s. r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of ISP) as of December 1. The association has actually 120 memb…

The Czech Internet Measurement Day will take place in December in cooperation with the CZ.NIC

The national domain registry for the Czech Republic has become a partner of the professional meeting Internet Measurement Day – Czech Republic organi…

CZ.NIC, the national domain registry for the Czech Republic join LINX NoVA

CZ.NIC, the national domain registry for the Czech Republic is one of the latest networks to join LINX NoVA, the US regional interconnection facility…

A Safe Internet Bulletin Board by CZ.NIC is headed to more than 4,000 elementary schools

At the end of October, the Safer Internet Center guaranteed by CZ.NIC, the Czech national domain administrator, will send out a Safe Internet Bulleti…

The next CSNOG will take place in 2022

The meeting of the Czech and Slovak network community, CSNOG 2021, which was originally planned for November, is being moved to the first half of nex…

The IETF Has Approved A New Internet Standard. It was Co-Authored by Ladislav Lhotka From CZ.NIC

The RFC 9108 converts two IANA registers into a form suitable for YANG data modeling.

Ladislav Lhotka, head of CZ.NIC Labs, is one of the authors of t…

CZ.NIC Shall Donate CZK One Million to Help People Affected by the Tornado

The CZ.NIC Association will contribute CZK 1 million to help residents of the Břeclav and Hodonín regions, which have been hit by a devastating torna…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company NetX Networks a. s. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of ISP) as of July 1. The association has actually 119 members.

The organizers of the CSNOG 2021 networking meeting are announcing a Call for Abstracts

Today, the organizers of the fourth year of the CSNOG 2021 community meeting of administrators of the Czech and Slovak networks announced a Call for …

New mobile app will make it easier for mojeID users to access eGovernment services

[Press Release]: CZ.NIC Association introduces the new mobile application „MojeID Klíč“. It is designed to make it even easier for mojeID users to ac…

Researchers from the CZ.NIC Labs tested new method for passive DNS round-trip time analysis

The report describes a new method for increasing DNS-over-TCP traffic volume that is used for estimating RTT.

CZ.NIC Laboratories published a report o…

Network administrators' community meeting — CSNOG 2021 — is going to take place on October 13 and 14

Purpose of this event which is regularly visited by network specialists form all around the world is to facilitate sharing of experience and practica…