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2011

Key Internet engineers meet in Prague

The 80th jubilee IETF meeting is hosted by CZ.NIC. One of the IETF’s working groups is co-chaired by Ondřej Surý, Head of CZ.NIC Laboratories.

Prague,…

CZ.NIC participates in the development of BIND 10 and hosts an international developer meeting start

The main changes of BIND 10 compared to the previous version are for example modularity, options for individually tweaking the system to suit specifi…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company CQK HOLDING a. s. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 March 2011. CQK HOLDING become a member of the Chamber of Domain Name…

85% of .CZ Domains Are Not Protected Against Fraud

The CZ.NIC Association has launched a campaign to increase awareness of the importance of domain security. A key part of the campaign is the website …

New .CZ domain price list takes effect

The wholesale price of a Czech national domain dropped from CZK 155 (excl. VAT) to CZK 140 (excl. VAT).

The new price list for the .CZ domain takes ef…

The pace of new domain registrations continues to keep up. There are already 750,000 of them

The round figure was reached at 3:20 a.m.

Prague, 6 January 2011 – Today at 3:20 a.m., the CZ.NIC association, administrator of the Czech top-level do…

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies DELL Computer, spol. s r. o. and TechWare, spol s r. o. are new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 January 2011. All companies a…

2010

CZ.NIC to change prices of .CZ domains

The CZ.NIC association, administrator of the Czech top-level domain, will decrease the annual registration fee for holding a .CZ domain as of 1 Febru…

CZ.NIC will watch over cybernetic security of the Czech Republic

Czech Interior Minister Radek John and Ondřej Filip, Executive Director of the CZ.NIC Association, signed a memorandum establishing that the administ…

Bohemiasoft has deployed mojeID in all of its e-shops

Over 3,300 small and medium sized e-shops using systems provided by the Bohemiasoft company now support logging in using mojeID.

Prague, 14 December –…

Two CZ.NIC managers appointed to important positions in international internet organisations

These two achievements of managers of the administrator of the .CZ domain confirm the high esteem they are held in in the eyes of the international i…

CZ.NIC has a new Board of Directors

Tomáš Košňar from the CESNET association is new member of the CZ.NIC Board of Directors.

Prague, 1 December – The Collegium of the CZ.NIC Association,…

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies Socha, spol. s r. o. and TIKWI s. r. o. are new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 December 2010. All companies are members of t…

Use of diacritics in Czech domains again refused

Eight-seven percent of organisations that responded and 62 percent of ordinary Internet users surveyed objected to the introduction of the IDN system…

CZ.NIC launches a campaign for mojeID. The service has a special website

The centrepiece of the campaign is a special site, jednoheslo.cz, where users will find a summary of all the information related to mojeID.

Prague, 9 …

CZ.NIC presents tools for better communication with the authorities

The dsgui for iPhone, ZFO Editor, and DSGUI applications were created in CZ.NIC Laboratories, the research and development centre of the administrato…

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies Greenlux s. r. o., Laurián s. r. o. and Skymia s. r. o. are new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 November 2010. All companies …

The first thousand users have mojeID identity

It has been less than three days, since mojeID was launched and its provider, the CZ.NIC association, registers the first thousand users interested i…

CZ.NIC launches mojeID and increases comfort for using online services

The service will allow users to create their own mojeID identity (meaning “my ID” in Czech), thanks to which they will have access to online services…

39 per cent of Czech organisations do not monitor the number of visitors to their web pages

Even though internet presentations have become a commonplace element of company marketing, only 61 per cent of Czech organisations are interested in …

Czech internet users prefer e-mails with diacritics

A typical user who does not use diacritics in e-mail communication is between the age of 30 and 39 years and lives in a municipality of 100,000 inhab…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company NEW MEDIA GROUP s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 October 2010. NEW MEDIA GROUP become a member of the Chamber o…

CZ.NIC Labs expand to Brno and plan university collaboration

Like the Prague headquarters, employees of the Labs will work primarily on projects concerning the security and stability of the internet and the dev…

CZ.NIC-CSIRT is an accredited member of the European network of security teams

CZNIC-CSIRT was created with the objective of minimising the risks of possible threats to national and international computer security and contributi…

CZ.NIC has successfully finished the switch to NSEC3

The administrator of the Czech national domain is the first registrar in the world to finish the process of changing the signature technology from NS…

There are already 700,000 .CZ domains, with the longest one being 63 characters long

According to CZ.NIC statistics, men dominate among domain holders with an 87% share, while businesses and legal entities have a 52% share.

Prague, 4 A…

CZ.NIC switches to NSEC3; is the very first to change the key algorithm

The process, finishing with a request to IANA concerning the change of the root zone key, will take the whole day and is scheduled to end around 7 PM…

DNSSEC protects more than one seventh of the Czech internet

The 100,000th DNSSEC-secured .CZ domain was registered on July 29, 20:26.

Prague 30 July 2010 – The Czech Republic is maintaining its leading position…

CZ.NIC launches alpha version of the MojeID service

The service will be fully operational from the start of October this year.

As of today the alpha version of the service will be working at demo.mojeid…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Media4web, s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 July 2010. Media4web become a member of the Chamber of registrars. …

Disputes concerning domain .CZ follow new Rules

Probably the most important change is a new system for calculating the fees for proceedings.

Prague, 15 June - Predictable tariff scale of the Arbitra…

Fewer than two percent of Czech websites are available through IPv6

Among websites with the .CZ domain, only a small fraction is available through the IPv6 protocol – not even 11 thousands (10,127).

Prague, 8 June 2010…

CZ.NIC is preparing the introduction of the NSEC3 security technology

From today, ISPs in the Czech Republic can test NSEC3, a new version of the DNSSEC technology, on their DNS resolvers.

Prague, 4 June 2010 – From toda…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Faster CZ spol. s r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 June 2010. Faster CZ become a member of the Chamber of ISP. The…

CZ.NIC issues domain report

The 2009 Domain Report summarises data about .CZ domains as of 31 December 2009.

The CZ.NIC Association, administrator of the .CZ domain, has issued i…

CZ.NIC BIRD Project Receives International Award

One of the largest internet peering centres in the world, London-based LINX, has granted the LINX Awards 2010 to the Czech project BIRD.

Prague, 11 Ma…

Test the new beta version of PostgreSQL in the CZ.NIC Laboratories

After Japan and the United States, the Czech Republic is only the third country where this testing marathon will take place.

Prague, 5 May - This year…

CZ.NIC Hosts Jubilee Meeting of the International Organization RIPE

Those speaking and appearing in individual discussions will include, for example, Ondřej Surý, Manager of CZ.NIC Laboratory, and Jaromír Talíř, Techn…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Advio Network, s. r. o. is a new member of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 May 2010. Advio Network become a member of the Chamber of Regis…

DNSSEC protects over 87,000 .CZ domains

Last week, DNSSEC technology was introduced for more than 70,000 .CZ domains.

Last week, DNSSEC technology was introduced for more than 70,000 .CZ d…

CZ.NIC Blocks 150 Malicious Domains since Start of Year

The reasons for shutting these domains down was that they were spreading malicious software and performing phishing attacks.

Prague 25 February 2010 -…

Good Domain Becomes Online Campaign of the Year

The Good Domain online campaign has been awarded a Silver Nutcracker at this year’s presentation of prestigious advertising prizes.

Prague 3 March 201…

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies MASANTA.COM s. r. o. and NFX are new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 March 2010. MASANTA.COM is a member of the Chamber of Re…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company AKREDIT, spol. s r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 Februery 2010. AKREDIT become a member of the Chamber of Regist…

A Great Day for the Security of Czech Internet

The Czech Republic is one of the most active countries in terms of introducing the DNSSEC technology.

Prague, 26 January 2010 - Almost 15,000 Czech do…

CZ.NIC is the first to let cell phones into egovernment mailboxes

The solution for access to egovernment mailboxes in particular from open operating systems is being developed by the CZ.NIC Labs.

Prague, 18 January 2…

A book on the GIT system – for the first time in Czech and for free!

The book by Scott Chacon Pro GIT explaining the work and the vast possibilities of the GIT system for version management.

Prague, 5 January 2010 – In …

New registration rules

New version of .cz Registration Rules is in effect as of 1 January 2010

New version of .cz Registration Rules is in effect as of 1 January 2010

New members of the CZ.NIC Association

The companies Intell.Net, s. r. o. and TRESTEL CZ, a. s. are new members of the CZ.NIC Association as of 1 January 2010. Intell.NET is a member of th…

2009

CZ.NIC Is Changing Its Pricelist

The wholesale price for a domain registration will drop from the current CZK 190 excl. VAT to CZK 155 excl. VAT.

Prague, 30 November 2009 - The CZ.NIC…