As part of our ongoing Security Programme, we are strengthening our password requirements across our registries. What is changing? EPP passwords of less than 14 characters will be expired. When is it changing? EPP passwords of less than 14 characters will expire on 2022-05-10. What systems does this affect? Both .UK and gTLD EPP passwords with...

On Thursday 5th May 2022 as part of routine and essential maintenance for UK Testbed, maintenance will be taking place from 10:00 – 11:00 UTC +1. During this time there will be intermittent connection to: UK: Testbed (EPP) There is no impact to any other services. If you have any questions please contact our customer...

On Wednesday 4th May 2022 essential maintenance will be taking place from 06:00- 08:00 UTC+1 (BST). The following services will be unavailable during this time: gTLD and UK: APIs Domain Availability Checker (DAC) Dragon EPP Online Services RDAP Searchable WHOIS Web Domain Manager WHOIS As part of this release we will also be updating the...

CHANGE REQUIRED NOW Notification of the removal of weak cipher suites from .UK EPP on 2022-03-01. As first notified on 2021-09-07 we are taking steps to remove weak cipher suites from .UK EPP. We have taken the decision to bring this work forward to 2022-03-01 (previously planned for 2022-03-08). The vast majority of registrars have...

On Tuesday 29th March 2022 essential maintenance will be taking place from 06:00 – 08:00 UTC+1 (BST). The following services will be unavailable during this time: gTLD and UK: APIs Domain Availability Checker (DAC) Dragon EPP Online Services RDAP Searchable WHOIS Web Domain Manager WHOIS If you have any questions please contact our customer care...