Dear Sirs,
on Monday March 7, 2022 at 10:00 PM to March 8, 2022 2:00 AM the domain
management system will be shut down - at this time the system will be
temporarily unavailable.
At this time, there will not be available information associated with
the registry in the Intranet - credit status, list of invoices and
expired domains of registrars.
Furthermore,some web presentations, the EPP system, web/unix WHOIS and
RDAP; displaying a list of registrars; establishing requests for
authinfo, blocking and unblocking; mojeID profile editor; interface for
creating mojeID accounts and login into the domain browser will not work
as well. Furthermore, login into the mojeID service will not work during
the first 15 minutes of the shutdown.
As part of the shutdown, we will upgrade the database of the domain
management system.
Deleting domains from March 7, 2022 will take place before the shutdown.
Thank you and kind regards
Markéta Kušičková
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
on Tuesday February 15, 2022 at 10:00 PM the domain management system
will be shut down for about 10 minutes. At this time the system will be
temporarily unavailable.
At this time, there will not be available information associated with
the registry in the Intranet - credit status, list of invoices and
expired domains of registrars.
Furthermore,the EPP system, web/unix WHOIS and RDAP; displaying a list
of registrars; establishing requests for authinfo, blocking and
unblocking; mojeID profile editor; interface for creating mojeID
accounts and login into the domain browser will not work as well.
During the shutdown, we are deploying a new version of the system that
limits the acquisition of contact data via EPP, as announced several
times last year.
Based also on your suggestions, we have added 2 related functions:
- on successful execution of epp function 'info_contact <HANDLE>
<AUTHINFO>', ie. when calling with the specified attribute 'authinfo' of
the given contact, 'authinfo' is regenerated. This is the same behavior
as when calling the 'transfer_contact' epp operation.
- even when blocking a contact against transfer to another registrar, it
is possible to send 'authinfo' to the e-mail specified in the registry.
Sending an e-mail to other than the one listed in the register is no
longer possible. Likewise, the behavior for other objects, ie domains,
keysets and nssets, does not change. The contact blocked against
transfer can be identified by the set blocking status
'serverTransferProhibited'.
For the system to function properly, it is necessary to switch to the
new schemes, in version 2.4.2, see:
https://www.nic.cz/page/744/registracni-system/ (it has also been
announced earlier)
The new version of the system is already in the public test environment.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Thank you and kind regards
Markéta Kušičková
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
on Tuesday December 14, 2021 at 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM the domain
management system will be shut down - at this time the system will be
temporarily unavailable.
Deleting domains from December 14 will take place before the shutdown.
At this time, there will not be available information associated with
the registry in the Intranet - credit status, list of invoices and
expired domains of registrars.
Furthermore,the EPP system, web/unix WHOIS and RDAP; displaying a list
of registrars; establishing requests for authinfo, blocking and
unblocking; mojeID profile editor; interface for creating mojeID
accounts and login into the domain browser will not work as well.
We are deploying a new version of the system during the shutdown. This
versionadds the concept of an external identity that can be linked to a
registry contact. This will allow you to connect the EU eID to any
contact in the .CZ registry and log in to the Domain browser and use its
functions. At the same time, we are launching an upgraded version of the
Domain Browser.
Once more, we would like to point out the necessity to switch to the new
schemes, in version 2.4.2, see:
https://www.nic.cz/page/744/registracni-system/
These schemes contain the new contact states needed for the above
purposes and the optional `authinfo` parameter for info_contact, which
will be needed from February 15, 2022, when we change the provision of
contact data.
If you do not switch to the new schemes by December 14, 2021, it may not
be possible in some specific cases to make changes to the contacts for
which you are the designated registrar, but these contactsare also
connected to EU eID.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Thank you and kind regards
Markéta Kušičková
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
starting from Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 10:00 PM to Wednesday
November 24, 2021 at 02:00 AM the domain management system will be shut
down - at this time the system will be temporarily unavailable.
Deleting domains from November 23 will take place before the shutdown.
At that time there will not be available information associated with the
registry in the Intranet - credit status, list of invoices and expired
domains of registrars.
Furthermore,the EPP system, web/unix WHOIS and RDAP; displaying a list
of registrars; establishing requests for authinfo, blocking and
unblocking; mojeID profile editor; interface for creating mojeID
accounts and login into the domain browser will not work as well.
Within this time window, most of our websites, including the nic.cz
website, will also be shut down for a short time.
The CZ zone will also not be generated and published during the shutdown.
The reason of the service shutdown is the upgrade of the domain
management system database.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Thank you and kind regards
Markéta Kušičková
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
on Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM, the EPP production operation
will be restarted. Restarting will only take effect on your side by
ending open sessions, which can be re-established immediately.
The reason is the deployment of new versions of schemas, version 2.4.2.
These schemas will include adding new contact states for the RegeID
project and adding an optional `authinfo` parameter for info_contact.
All changes in the schemes are backward compatible, so nothing needs to
be done on your part, your operation will continue to run without
changes even if you continue to use the existing schemes.
Nevertheless, we recommend that you upgrade to the new version as soon
as possible. With the changes related to the RegeID project, which will
be deployed before the end of the year, it may not be possible in some
specific cases to make changes to contacts for which you are the
designated registrar but these contacts will also be connected to EU eID.
At the same time, it is possible to gradually switch to these schemes
according to your needs, possibilities and readiness, so that the
activation of the changes announced for February 2022 (see previous
emails) will proceed as smoothly as possible.
In case of questions, please contact me.
Thank you and kind regards
Marketa Kusickova
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 10:00 AM, we will perform a restart
of the app server as part of the planned SW upgrades. This restart will
cause a short-term shutdown of some services, especially the EPP
connection, web and unix WHOIS and RDAP, furthermore, displaying the
list of registrars and creating requests for authinfo.
The entire service shutdown will take place in about a minute, so we
believe that it will not affect you significantly, even if we implement
it on a working day during working hours.
Thank you for your understanding and I apologize for any inconvenience.
Kind regards
Marketa Kusickova
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
in the attachment you can findthe new version of the schemas, which
contains changes concerning the provision of contact data. This change
has already been communicated in this list, it is currently deployed on
the test environment and it is available for download at
https://www.nic.cz/page/744/registracni-system/
This version will be put into operation in the second half of October 2021.
You will be informed about the exact date of deployment later.
In case of questions, please contact me.
Thank you and kind regards
Marketa Kusickova
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
let me inform you about an upcoming change in the provision of contact
details via EPP. We have decided on the following solution, which we
hope works well for you and causes you as minimal problems as possible
during implementation and normal operation.
We are ready to deploy these changes to the test environment during the
next week. Since this is a significant change in behavior apart to the
production system, if any of you is working on a specific task on the
test environment and this change would affect him, please let me know -
of course in that case we can move the date of the deployment.
If you need extra time, please let me know by Wednesday June 2, 2021,
otherwise we will prepare the deployment on time and, of course, I will
let you know the exact date.The date of deployment on the production
system has not yet been decided.
The planned changes are as follows:
*- epp command info_contact <handle> shows:*
- data according to the set *disclose flags*, if a givenregistrar
*is not* a designated registrar for <handle>
- all data,
- if a given registrar *is* a designated registrar for <handle>
- if a given registrar *is* *not* a designated registrar for
<handle>
- but enters *authinfo* in the request of a given contact
- but contact with <handle> is attached to an object like
*domain* (in the role of *holder* or *admin-c*), for which a given
registrar *is* a designated registrar
- if the server evaluates *authinfo in the info_contact* request as
incorrect, it returns error 2202 - Invalid authorization information
- *epp command **poll req* for a contact data change message, displays
the same information as before
*- all data:*
- *receives* a designated registrar of a given contact
- *receive* designated registrars of a domain, which has the given
contact established in the role of *holder* or *admin-c*
New epp schemas are available at
https://gitlab.office.nic.cz/fred/mod-eppd/-/tree/2.21.0-rc3/schemas
Thank you and kind regards
Marketa Kusickova
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
let me inform you that on June 3, 2021, the CENTR Association organizes
another regular meeting with registrars, held online.
Enclosed you can find the invitation and the program.
You are cordially invited.
Kind regards
Marketa Kusickova
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
M +420 603 826 732
Dear Sirs,
on Monday May 17, 2021 at 10:00 PM part of our systems will be shut
down. The shutdown is planned until May 18, 2021 01:00 AM.
During the shutdown, the web whois, domain browser, list of registrars
and intranet will be out of operation (except for internal
systems).Neither the EPP nor the registration system will be affected.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Thank you and kind regards
Markéta Kušičková
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Markéta Kušičková
CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
Milešovská 5
130 00 Praha 3
T +420 222 745 125
M +420 603 826 732