15th & 16th January – Planned Maintenance
January 12, 2022 12:28 pm
On Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th January 2022 we are completing essential maintenance work to our telephone infrastructure. During this maintenance window we may experience some downtime with our telephone service. On Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th January if you require our out of hours emergency support, we request you contact us via +44 (0)2034...
8th December – Updates to .UK Ciphers
December 8, 2021 12:41 pm
On Wednesday 8th December the cipher suites on the .UK production environment (epp.nominet.org.uk:700) and (ote-epp.nominet.org.uk:700) were changed to: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 DES-CBC3-SHA AES128-SHA AES128-SHA256 AES128-GCM-SHA256 AES256-SHA AES256-SHA256 AES256-GCM-SHA384 CAMELLIA128-SHA CAMELLIA256-SHA IDEA-CBC-SHA RC4-SHA SEED-SHA Also on this date, the cipher suites on the .UK testbed environment (testbed-epp.nominet.org.uk:700) were changed to: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 Following...
21st September 2021 – Renewal Change Notice
October 18, 2021 3:54 pm
We wanted to make all registrars aware of a change to system behaviour that will affect registrars that send renewal commands more than 90 days after the expiry of a domain name. Recent scheduled maintenance activity included a clean-up of code that now means that if a renewal request is submitted once a domain is...
9th September 2021 – Planned System Maintenance
September 2, 2021 6:12 pm
The following service will be unavailable on Thursday 9th September from 06:00 – 07:00 UTC: .UK ccTLD: Testbed EPP This is due to upcoming changes to .UK EPP cipher suites. Please see the notice below. Upcoming changes to the cipher suites used in EPP on the .UK platform The end goal is to remove some...
Updates to SSL certificate for EPP connections
July 13, 2021 11:04 am
On Monday 26 July 2021 at 13:00 BST (UTC+1) we will be renewing and replacing the SSL certificate for EPP connections for all gTLDs using *.epp.nominet.uk as a host name. You will only need to make a change if the system you use to query EPP validates our SSL certificate for *.epp.nominet.uk using the certificate serial...
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