SOFTWARE UPDATE
Dear Registrars, on Tuesday evening, May 8, 2018 will be deployed a software update that will disrupt open login sessions. Registrars will have to log in again after the update is deployed.
GDPR Annex to the Registrar Contract with SK-NIC, a. s. to be Signed
This is an important message concerning the contractual relations for the provision of registrar’s services. Hereby, we would like to request that you to complete and sign the Annex to the Registrar Contract (available for download here) and to mail two printed and signed copies back to our address as soon as possible. As this…
New Terms and Conditions for Registration in .SK TLD
Pursuant to the approaching new legislation on personal data protection (so-called GDPR), we would like to inform you about changes in Terms and Conditions of Domain Name Service in .sk Top Level Domain. New Terms & Conditions can be found on our website. Should you disagree with them, you can proceed according to the provision…
Please note: Since April 1st, New Law on Cybersecurity Entered into Force
Recent months brought about an increase in the legislative and regulatory requirements, which are concerning also the area of internet domain registrations and therefore they impact both the top-level domain registry as well as domain registrars. As we have already informed you, as of April 1st, 2018 the new Law no. 69/2018 about Cybersecurity entered…
Slides from the GDPR Workshop for Registrars
How does EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its requirements concern relations between registry and registrars, between registrars and users and how does it overall affect internet domain registration was presented at the workshop, which we organized on March 15, 2018 and was attended by several tens of largest registrars. This activity is but…
New Terms & Conditions Incorporating GDPR Directive for Public Comments
Dear Registrars, due to approaching effective date for the GDPR directive of European Union, we hereby introduce adjusted version of the Terms and Conditions and Registrar Agreement open for public comments up until March 21st. Please submit Your comments to hostmaster@sk-nic.sk. Documents are currently available in Slovak only. Thank You for Your cooperation. Registrar agreement…
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Will Impact Also Registration of Internet Domains
SK-NIC, a. s. invites registrars of .sk domains to seminar about the new EU directive General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will impact also internet domain registration. Fines up to 20 million EUR or up to 4 percent of annual turnover could be imposed in case of non-compliance with the new EU directive concerning protection…
New EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in 100 days
As you may have noticed in the press, new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018. Hence, in 100 days, the most important change in data privacy regulation within EU in more than 20 years will take place. This Regulation and its implementation affects the registration and administration of…
Statement of SK-NIC, a.s., to hoax about availability of .sk
Availability of the top-level domain .SK remains unchanged: new strategic investor CentralNic has unblemished 20-year track record of 100-percent availability of service. In recent days, incorrect and misleading rumors (hoaxes) about changes to the availability of the national top-level domain .sk appeared in Slovak internet, suggesting that the standard of service for .SK is not…
Addendum to the Service Level Agreement for Services of Domain Registry of Top Level Domain .SK
Dear registrars, hereby we would like to inform you about change in the Terms & Conditions of Domain Name Service in .sk Top Level Domain, which is a result of voting of the Committee for Administration of the National Domain .sk, which took place on January 16, 2018. As you know, the 7-member Committee includes…
