Company type | association |
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Industry | Domain registration |
Founded | 1998 |
Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
Key people | Mgr. Ondřej Filip, MBA, CEO |
Products | registration in .cz, registration in .0.2.4.e164.arpa |
Website | www |
CZ.NIC is a Czech interest association of legal persons established by leading Internet service providers in 1998. The main activity of the association is administration of domain names .cz and 0.2.4.e164.arpa (ENUM), administration of .cz top-level domains and education in the area of domain names. Currently[when?], the employees of the association are intensively working on expanding the DNSSEC technology[citation needed], developing the domain administration system and mojeID service and promoting new technologies and projects beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic.
Authorized by the Ministry of the Interior, the CZ.NIC association coordinates the national security team CSIRT.CZ that has been participating in resolving incidents related to cyber security in networks operated in the Czech Republic since 2011.
The association operates a specialized learning center called CZ.NIC Academy and founded its own research organization, the purpose of which is, among others, to solve problems related to Internet security and the development of original tools for the development of the Internet infrastructure.
CZ.NIC is a member of EURid, the organization administering the European .eu domain as well as of other international companies with similar specialization (CENTR, ccNSO, etc.).