SK-NIC started the year by presenting the successful projects from the first call of the SK-NIC Fund. The presentation took place on 9th January 2020 at HubHub in Bratislava. The excellent atmosphere of creativity and ideas was complemented by representatives of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Investments and…
SK-NIC started year 2020 with the launch of the domain scanning technology for presence of CDS records called CDS scanning. Thus, Slovakia became ranked as third among the countries using this technology. With this technological novelty we launched activities, which should support the successful story of the most beautiful .sk ending also in 2020. For…
On January 1st 2020 SK-NIC, a.s. – .sk Domain Registry launched a new additional service for DNSSEC called CDS scanning. The first scanning identified more than 5000 domains, which have been added to the domains secured with DNSSEC, thus increasing the number of secure domains with the most beautiful .sk extension to more than 125,000!…
We would like to draw your attention to change in the opening hours during Christmas holidays as follows: On Monday, December 23rd, 2019 our Office will be opened from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (CET). On Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 our Office will be opened from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 (noon) (CET) Usual opening hours will…
2019 is significant for us – we have much to celebrate! We achieved the milestone of 400,000 domains ending with .sk! The number of those who decided to enter virtual Slovakia is growing. Communication is developing, we have many education offers, there are many different shops and also entertainment options. However, various dangers are growing…
Even if the deployment of DNSSEC in the .sk domain is already now excellent, in order to secure a higher standard of the services for domain holders and a comfort of services for the registrars, we are planning to introduce automated DNSSEC activation on the basis of the data on the DNS servers (so called…
After closing the call of the SK-NIC Fund for the support of young projects the assessment committee has announced the results. From among 56 projects that applied 11 were recommended for the support! 43 % of all requests are from the field of education, however also citizens associations, natural persons, limited liability companies, foundations or…
The October campaign focused on raising the standard of domain security with DNSSEC exceeded expectations. The number of domains with this higher security standard has increased significantly. After the campaign’s deadline on 16/11/2019 almost 35,500 domains were secured, which represented 8,82% of all registered .sk domains. This number has exceeded 42,000 domains yesterday and continues to rise! The percentage…
After the first call deadline, a total of 56 applications have been received. The amount of requested aid even exceeded the amount assigned for support in this call several times. The first application was received by the Pontis Foundation already one day after the call was published, i.e the 1st of October 2019 and the…
The month of cybersecurity is also the month in which we have crossed the limit of 400,000 domains. Virtual Slovakia is growing with the number of those who enter the virtual world. In the Slovak one, we have the space for all who want to learn, communicate, travel, shop or have fun. Slovak virtual space…
