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2026

The CZ.NIC Association is launching a new website featuring modern visuals, a clearer structure, and a comprehensive range of services

The CZ.NIC Association, the Czech national domain administrator, is unveiling the new design of its official website. The website links together the …

The CSIRT.CZ National Security Team Launches the “Guardians of the Internet” Service

The CSIRT.CZ National Security Team, coordinated by the CZ.NIC Association, is launching the “Guardians of the Internet” service, which aims to stand…

Czech Republic to participate in Cyber Europe 2026, Europe’s largest cyber crisis exercise

Cyber Europe 2026, Europe's largest exercise focused on testing the readiness of organizations and government institutions to respond to large-scale …

CZ.NIC Joins the CyberINTEL-X Project Intended to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Europe

The CZ.NIC Association, the Czech national domain administrator, has joined the international consortium of the CyberINTEL-X project, which aims to s…

Turris Omnia NG Wired: a quiet 10Gbps router for racks and beyond, with an emphasis on security

The Turris Omnia NG Wired is primarily designed for installation in racks and infrastructure facilities such as server rooms and network cabinets.

The…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company nullable group s. r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of Domain Name Holders) as of March 1. The association has ac…

Domain Report 2025: Growth in domain numbers accelerated, secure domains also grew significantly

By the end of last year, the number of registered domain names totaled more than 1.5 million, marking a 2.04% year-on-year increase. Meanwhile, the n…

2025

CSNOG 2026: The complete program and registration are available on the January meeting website

The two-day series of lectures will offer 32 presentations by specialists on topics related to computer network administration.

Today, the program com…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company IMAGIX one s. r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of Domain Name Holders) as of December 1. The association has act…

The secure open-source router Turris Omnia NG is now on sale

Interested parties can purchase it at Discomp e-shop. Turris Omnia NG builds on the security, reliability, stability, and modularity of the previous …

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company Designers & Developers s. r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of Domain Name Holders) as of November 1. The associa…

Věra Mikušová from CZ.NIC heads the Steering Committee of the international organization TF-CSIRT

[Press Release]The TF-CSIRT organization brings together not only security teams that deal with cyber security incidents (CERT, CSIRT), but also othe…

Turris Omnia NG: a new generation of the secure router by CZ.NIC was presented at LinuxDays 2025

Turris Omnia NG builds on the security, reliability, stability, and modularity of the previous Turris Omnia model. Compared to the previous generatio…

The CZ.NIC Association has a new Chairman of the Board

The five-member team is now headed by Tomáš Košňar, who replaced Karel Taft; the latter had been Chairman of the Board for the past 15 years and did …

Pavel Bašta of CZ.NIC was inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame

The Information Security Summit (IS2) is held once a year by the company TATE International. This event includes a ceremonial induction into the Cybe…

ICANN83 Policy Forum Set for Prague Amid Key Milestones

This year's Policy Forum also emphasizes broad participation for both seasoned stakeholders and new participants. The format is designed to support w…

New Member of the CZ.NIC Association

The company IoT Way s. r. o. is a new members of the CZ.NIC association (chamber of Domain Name Holders) as of April 1. The association has actually …

The number of .cz domains exceeded 1 500 000

The registration of the domain with the serial number 1 500 000 occurred yesterday shortly before midnight. The number of domains evolves dynamically…

CSNOG 2026 community meeting will take place on January 21–22 in Zlín

The Czech national domain administrator, together with the CESNET and NIX.CZ associations, is a co-organiser of this traditional event for Internet n…

CZ.NIC will seek review of alternative dispute resolution rules before the Supreme Court

With regard to legal certainty and transparency, the Association has decided to turn to the Supreme Court and is ready to seek an optimal procedure t…

CZ.NIC association hosts domains with Danish national extension

The cooperation with Punktum DK company extends the activities of the Czech national domain administrator, adding the Danish top-level domain to the …

CSNOG 2025 organizers published presentations, videos and photos from the event

CSNOG 2025 community meeting attended more than 220 people interested in topics related to network management and related legislation. The event was …

Safer Internet day will once again highlight the initiative for a safer online environment

The Czech Safer Internet Day is traditionally organized by the CZ.NIC Association through its project Safer Internet Centre of the Czech Republic.

For…

The CZ.NIC Association has released the 2024 Domain Report

At the end of last year, CZ.NIC registered 1,485,493 domains with the .CZ extension, with the 2024 registrations peaking in November (22,311) and dro…

The CZ.NIC Association has published a new price list

A new price list reflects the change in the wholesale price of the .CZ domain, which will be CZK 160 (excluding VAT) per calendar year from 1 March.

A…

CZ.NIC association to provide the Czech state with the registry and operation of the gov.cz domain

The Czech national domain administrator, CZ.NIC association, has been successful in an open tender for the operation of the system and infrastructure…

2024

CSNOG 2025: program published, registration open

All the details, including registration, are available on the web page address www.csnog.eu/csnog-2025/.

New Cyber Security Act, Timeseries Troubles: …

CZ.NIC to change wholesale domain price next year

Until now, the wholesale price of the Czech national domain name was CZK 145 (excluding VAT), so it is an increase of CZK 15.

Starting from March 1st …

CZ.NIC has increased the bandwidth of the national Internet node to 510Gbit

The Czech national domain administrator has boosted the capacity of the first link to the national Internet interconnection hub NIX.CZ to 400Gbit.

The…

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

This continues the Czech national domain administrator’s expansion of its own DNS infrastructure worldwide and strengthening of the robustness of its…

CSNOG 2025: The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to November 15

The program committee will be accepting presentations not only on network administration, but also on legislation and regulation, or on networking ac…

RIPE NCC’s 89th International Meeting begins today in Prague

The 89th conference (RIPE 89) of this organization is hosted by the CZ.NIC Association, the Czech national domain administrator.

The meeting of networ…

The DIA Will Again Entrust The CZ.NIC With The Operation Of The International Gateway eIDAS

The international gateway eIDAS enables access to online services of the public sector using the login methods notified by other EU Member States, wh…

The CZ.NIC Association launched the second run of the #overenomojeid campaign

The participants of the campaign are offered hardware security tokens and a chance to enter a draw for a Samsung tablet.

On Monday, August 5, the seco…

Safety and reliability first: T-Mobile uses CZ.NIC Association’s VIP domain service

The VIP domain is intended for organizations and companies who prioritize security, flawless functionality and availability of their digital services…

Europe's Largest Drill To Test Its Preparedness For A Major Cyber Crisis

In the case of the Czech Republic, one of the main coordinators is the CZ.NIC Association, through the CSIRT.CZ security team run by the Czech nation…

World-Class Internet Engineers Are Coming To Prague. CZ.NIC Association To Host ICANN Policy Forum

One of ICANN’s most important events will return to the Czech Republic after thirteen years, and will once again be hosted by CZ.NIC.

Executives of CA…

Anyone can now get the domain of their dreams. .CZ domain auctions are on

The first auction of approximately 600 domains will take place on Thursday, May 16 in the Domain Browser.

advokatinfo.cz, hint.cz, evca.cz, dro.cz, do…

A new book from CZ.NIC Publications will guide you on becoming a guardian while online

The richly illustrated book is intended primarily for young readers who want to know how to behave safely on the Internet and what to be wary of.

Prot…

CZ.NIC Ensures Hosting Of The Ukrainian National Domain .UA

The Czech national domain administrator now also hosts the Ukrainian top-level domain .UA on its DNS hosting anycast, along with several important su…

The CZ.NIC Association launches the product version of the Domain Auction system

Further information on the Domain Action project is available on the project website, while the rules of domain auctions and their operating rules ca…

IPv6 Day 2024 conference program is finalized, be sure to register early

The government’s decision to discontinue support for IPv4, the IPv6 experience in the cloud, or running an IPv6-only environment are just some of the…

CZ.NIC Publications has released a book on the Python programming language by Pavel Tišnovský

This new book brings a comprehensive view of the latest trends, techniques and libraries that are becoming the standard in the ecosystem of this prog…

CZ.NIC Is Further Strengthening The Anycast DNS Of The .CZ Zone By Launching A Site In Ukraine

Ukraine became the 14th country in addition to the Czech Republic where the Czech National Domain Administrator has a DNS anycast site; CZ.NIC server…

The CZ.NIC Association will be the main partner of the LinuxDays 2024 conference

The eleventh annual meeting of LinuxDays conference will take place on 12 and 13 October 2024, again at the Faculty of Information Technology of the …

Preparing IPv6 Day 2024 together with the CESNET Association

Together with CESNET we announced a call for presentations, which will be open until April 14.

The CZ.NIC Association takes part in the preparation of…

CSNOG 2025 community meeting will take place on January 21–22 in Zlín

For more information about the CSNOG community and its community meetings please visit www.csnog.eu.

The seventh annual meeting of the Czech and Slova…

The CZ.NIC Association has released the 2023 Domain Report

At the end of last year, there were 1,468,788 domains ending with .CZ. In 2023, an average of 16,618 domains were registered each month, with the hig…

CZ.NIC introduces VIP Domain, a new premium service with DATART.cz as the first client

The VIP Domain service is intended for organizations and businesses that value security, 100% functionality and availability of their services operat…

2023

The CZ NIC association presents a new book on DNS. The authors are Pavel Satrapa and Ondřej Filip

The book introduces the reader not only to the basic principles of the domain name system, but also to security, both in terms of the data provided a…