Notice of updates to TLS Protocol and Cipher Suites

Date announced: July 8, 2025 12:03 pm

Status: Planned

As part of Nominet’s ongoing commitment to strengthening our security measures, we are updating our supported TLS protocols and cipher suites. Please note specific actions your technical teams may need to take to support this change. Nominet will be updating the TLS and cipher suites to support only the following:  The following cipher suites will...

27th August 2025 – Planned System Maintenance

Date announced: July 24, 2025 10:26 am

Status: Planned

On Wednesday 27th August from 04:00 – 08:00 UTC+1 (BST) essential maintenance will be taking place. All registry systems including OT&E and Testbed will be unavailable during this time, please see the full list of services impacted below: Registry functionality remains unchanged. This maintenance is part of our broader platform refresh aimed at enhancing resiliency,...

Legacy .UK OT&E and Testbed port 8700 shutdown

Date announced: August 14, 2025 3:26 pm

Status: Planned

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...

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