On Monday 20th October between 09:00 – 11:00 UTC+1 (BST), we will be conducting emergency maintenance to apply critical security patches. These updates are necessary to address common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) identified in a recent security advisory. Why this matters:  The patches resolve several high-severity security issues that could impact system integrity and user...

On Tuesday 7th October essential maintenance will be taking place from 08:00 – 12:00 BST (UTC+1). This is routine and essential maintenance for OT&E and Testbed to ensure continued reliability and security of our services. The following services will be unavailable during this time: If you experience any unusual behaviour following this maintenance this should be...

As part of Nominet’s ongoing commitment to strengthening our security measures, we are updating our supported TLS protocols and cipher suites. To implement these updates, system maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, 23rd October, from 10:00 to 12:00 BST (UTC+1), the systems highlighted below may have connections reset: Please note as per our previous notice on...

Update 11/09/25 15:45 BST (UTC+1): The following issue is now resolved: On Thursday 11th September from 03:00 – 08:00 UTC+1 (BST) essential maintenance will be taking place. (Please note this notice replaces the maintenance that was previously planned for 27th August 2025 and the maintenance window has been extended.) All registry systems including OT&E and...

From Thursday 21st August 2025 we will cease to offer a plain-text EPP on port 8700 on our legacy OT&E and Testbed environments for .UK. We will continue to operate EPP over TLS in our OT&E and testbed legacy .UK environment on port 700. Customer Action Required: If you have any questions, please feel free...