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2017

Board of Directors of the International Organization DNS-OARC is joined by Jaromír Talíř

The non-profit organization DNS-OARC brings together key companies in the field of research, development and implementation of Internet technologies.…

Notifications about the impending domain expiration are now available via SMS

Every year, the number of registered domains increases and the CZ.NIC customer service staff daily deals with up to 800 domains that are approaching …

Ladislav Lhotka is to replace Bedřich Košata as head of CZ.NIC Labs

Ladislav Lhotka is an important Internet researcher, author of a number of Internet Standards (RFCs), who up to this point supervised CZ.NIC Labs pro…

CZ.NIC Association Represents the Czech Republic in the INHOPE international Association

The threat of illegal online content, particularly child pornography, goes beyond the capabilities of individual states. That is why a close cooperat…

Turris Omnia to appear at CeBIT

Turris Omnia has successfully entered the general market and will now appear at the global information technologies fair at CeBIT, which is taking pl…

Czechs refused diacritics in domain names again

The survey also shows that the most frequent disadvantages of using the diacritics in domain names reported spontaneously were complicated access for…

CZ.NIC Publications released a book on cybercrime

The official presentation of the book with an autograph session of Jan Kolouch will be held on February 7 during the Seminar on security of networks …

A new era of the Turris Omnia project with Patrick Zandl as head of the development team

The CZ.NIC association thus obtained a figure whose aim will be to push the Turris project a bit further. In CZ.NIC, Patrick Zandl will be in charge …

Czech Republic is at the forefront of an open data international project

Besides the Czech national domain administrator, participants include national telecommunications regulators from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sl…

2016

After a great success on Indiegogo, the Czech router Turris Omnia is coming into the stores

The total of USD 1,223,205 was collected for the development and production of the router, which is 12 times more than was anticipated by the CZ.NIC …

The successful open source router Turris Omnia moves from Indiegogo on to e-shops

Today, CZ.NIC Association, the Czech national domain administrator, has completed the production of the Turris Omnia devices purchased during the cro…

Turris Omnia, a secure router made in Europe, was unveiled today at the CES in Prague

Once all routers pre-ordered in the crowdfunding campaign have been delivered, the commercial sale of Turris Omnia to customers will begin. Potential…

Ondřej Surý replaces Ondřej Filip in the Board of the international domain name analysis and researc

Ondřej Filip served in the DNS-OARC organization’s governing body since 2010, also as its Chairman since 2012. Ondřej Filip could not be re-elected t…

CZ.NIC Publications released another book on open source

Twelve case studies in which the authors describe methods and tricks to improve the performance of open source applications, this is what readers can…

Argentina introduced the Czech system FRED for the administration of its internet domains

The Argentinian national domain registry will use the Czech registration system FRED (Free Registry for ENUM and Domains) for the administration of i…

The Free Internet initiative has started, support from both users and enterprises is welcome

Major Internet organizations have signed the initiative, which aims to draw attention to the consequences that will be brought by the approval of the…

Czechs will pay for censorship, senators are going to raise the price of Internet access

A significant increase in Internet connection prices for end users of the Czech Republic may occur next year, if the government bill on gambling pass…

The Internet and Technology Conference Mostly Focuses on Security Issues

Panel discussion, discussions on online safety, presentation on the impact of the lottery law on blocking the Internet or an accompanying program in …

Turris Omnia Router has gained USD 1 million; the most was contributed by Czechs

The countries whose inhabitants contributed the most to this sum are the Czech Republic with more than a quarter share (28 %), followed by USA (16 %)…

CZ.NIC Association Works with Czech TV on a New Program Teach Your Aunt about the Internet

The educational program Teach Your Aunt about the Internet, the first episode of which will be broadcast today, is a fun way to teach children aged 9…

CZ.NIC Publications releases a comic book inspired by the popular How to Use the Internet series

The authors of more than a hundred page publication are the writers of the popular TV series led by Jiří Vaněk. The pictures in the book are authored…

CZ.NIC Association is hosting an International Conference of security teams

The purpose of this regular event for security team members is to share their experience with security incidents that have had a serious impact on in…

Zdeněk Brůna became a new Technical Director of CZ.NIC

Work in CZ.NIC is not new for Zdeněk Brůna, who has been an active member of the Collegium of the Association since 2008, where he represented domain…

The mojeID service has half a million users

The service has been in operation since the autumn of 2010 and it is currently used by a number of operators – online stores, online communities and …

You have the last chance to get Turris Omnia, the open source router, with a 33% discount

The most orders have come from the United States of America, the Czech Republic, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Prague, 5 January 2016 –…

2015

Turris Omnia became the most successful Czech project on Indiegogo.com having callected 10M CZK

The project of the non-profit association CZ.NIC confirms that safety is a big issue everywhere in the world, and not only from the perspective of co…

The CZ.NIC Association and the NSA have concluded an agreement on the operation of the CSIRT.CZ team

Ondřej Filip, CEO of CZ.NIC, and Dušan Navrátil, Director of the National Security Authority, concluded a public contract, under which in future year…

The European router Turris Omnia now supports RaspberryPi applications

Similar to RaspberryPi, Turris Omnia has an expansion connector for additional peripherals. In contrast to RaspberryPi, Turris Omnia has a limited nu…

Turris Omnia is a self-updating router for maximum user’s safety in IoT age

Today, the Internet is an important part of our lives and it is no longer true that we are connected to the Internet only when we are looking up some…

Login to eAmbulance is now possible with the mojeID account

eAmbulance has enabled scheduling doctor’s appointments online in five regional hospitals in Jihlava, Havlíčkův Brod, Nové město na Moravě, Pelhřimov…

The Turris project got an international award for innovation in cyber security and privacy

The aim of this competition is to encourage innovative companies and innovators in the field of Internet technologies that focus primarily on securit…

CZ.NIC Association strengthens its management: Bedřich Košata became the head of CZ.NIC Labs

Ondřej Surý, the co-founder and the previous head of CZ.NIC Labs, will become a Technical Fellow addressing key projects, which include primarily the…

ICANN and CZ.NIC Collaborate to Increase Regional Internet Stability and Reliability

A joint operation between ICANN and CZ.NIC, the deployment of the L-Root server cluster in Prague is designed to respond to traffic in excess of 500 …

The CZ.NIC Association will keep operating the CSIRT.CZ National Security Team

The CZ.NIC Association has operated the CSIRT.CZ security team since January 1, 2011, on the basis of the memorandum concluded with the Ministry of I…

CZ.NIC association became a member of the international organization FIRST

CSIRT.CZ became the first Czech security team operating in FIRST, and therefore the only representative of the Czech Republic in this major security …

Jablotron and CZ.NIC joined forces to prepare own system for smart and safe household management

The basis for the joint activities of the companies will be the Turris router. It is a part of the Turris security project, which has been helping it…

Security team of the CZ.NIC Association will lead an international project

To strengthen trust and cooperation between national security teams and share their know-how and tools — these are the main objectives of the project…

Internet elite meets again in Prague after four years

Worldwide leaders of the ICT field will meet in Prague this July. The international summit of Internet community specialists united under the IETF (I…

CZ.NIC will contribute to the changes of global Internet security

International organization ICANN, responsible for the Internet management, has appointed a team that will prepare a plan for the alteration of the ro…

Two-thirds of Internet exchange points are using the Czech software BIRD

64 percent of Internet exchange points (IXP) worldwide used the Czech software BIRD in 2014. This has been published in the report of the EURO-IX org…

Domain report: in the year 2014 was registered 73,350 .CZ domains

Compared with the last year, the number of female holders slightly increased. The countries with the most .CZ domains registered abroad were the Slov…

2014

The CZ.NIC Publications releases a book on LibreOffice Writer

This is the 9th publication issued as a part of the CZ.NIC Publications project. Its author is a well-known promoter of open source solutions, Vlasti…

Czech Internet users’ view on diacritics in domains remains unchanged. They still do not want it

81 % of corporate respondents and 68 % of ordinary Internet users were against the introduction of IDN (Internationalized Domain Names).

Prague, Novem…

Ondřej Filip is to lead the Domain Name System Operations, Analysis and Research Center

Ondřej Filip was elected the Board Chairman of the association for the third time. His term of office will be two years. The position of a Board memb…

CZ.NIC Laboratories open a branch in České Budějovice

In the South Bohemian branch, the staff of CZ.NIC Laboratories will focus mainly on research and development of secure methods of remote configuratio…

Special learning center opens courses in Ostrava

The first course on the emerging Internet protocol IPv6 and its implementation is held in Ostrava on October 16. Those interested in participating in…

CZ.NIC Association introduced a new version of the educational app for children with dyslexia

At the website of the Google Play service, those interested will now also find two brand new games for practicing visual memory and attention trainin…

The CZ.NIC Publications released another book on the subject of law and the Internet

The book has the ambition to be a detailed manual on practical issues, such as: who and when is responsible for situations where users violate someon…

This year Czech At Prize goes to CZ.NIC

Educational activities related to the Internet, support for implementation of the new Internet Protocol IPv6 or activities in the field of open sourc…

The CZ.NIC Academy offers courses on the practical use of the Internet

The education center operated by Czech national domain administrator is opening 12 new courses designed for users with minimal experience, for exampl…