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First 10,000 CZ Domains in the New CZ.NIC Registration System

23.10.2007 16:45

The domain registration pace is continuously rising; the ten-thousandth domain was registered after only three weeks from launch of the new registration system

Prague, Czech Republic – 23 October 2007 – The CZ.NIC association, administrator of the CZ national domain, today recorded the 10,000 CZ domain registration since the launch of their new registration system, FRED (Free registry for ENUM and Domain). The association thus currently keeps 348,000 CZ domains registered. The first 10,000 domains in the new registration system is an outstanding milestone partly because the domains were registered in a very short time, i.e. 22 days from the new system launch on this year's 1 October.

"Launch of the new registration system also brought along a significant price decrease, certainly awaited by many of our customers. This is undoubtedly the main reason why more and more new domains are registered every day," explained Ondřej Filip, executive director of CZ.NIC. "In addition, a great contribution to the existing state is the simplification of the registration process, making it easier to obtain a new domain address."

Migration to the new registration system meant mainly higher efficiency, simpler CZ domain registration and considerably lower operation costs of the registry. FRED is a very powerful and efficient system. According to the results of stress tests, it could for example easily manage even the registry of COM generic domains – the largest domain registry in world with over 65 million registered domains. FRED has been made available as open source software under the GNU GPL (General Public License). Thos who are interested can obtain the system at http://fred.nic.cz. The software is free for use, modification and further distribution.

Statistics of the CZ Domain Migration to the New FRED System

  • 337,989 CZ domains in total have been transferred to the new system.
  • 361,525 contacts have been transferred.
  • 26,402 name server sets have been newly created within the migration.
  • The first domain was registered 3 seconds after the system launch.
  • 6 new domains were registered in the first 10 seconds.
  • The record number of 1,179 CZ domains were registered during the first 24 hours the system was operational.

About CZ.NIC, z. s. p. o. CZ.NIC, interest association of legal entities, was founded by leading providers of Internet services in 1998. The association currently has 52 members. The key activities of the association include operation of the domain name registry for the .CZ domain and the 0.2.4.e164.arpa (ENUM) domain, operation of the CZ top-level domain and public education in the area of domain names. The association is now intensively working on development of the ENUM system, extension and improvements of the FRED domain administration system, implementation of DNSSEC and support of new technologies and projects beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic. CZ.NIC is a member of the EURid association, managing the European domain – EU, and other similarly oriented organizations (CENTR, ccNSO, ITU etc.). To obtain more information, go to http://www.nic.cz.