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...

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...

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...