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| industry        = Registry

| industry        = Registry

| founded        = 1998

| founded        = 1998

| headquarters    = Americka 23, 120 00 Praha 2

| headquarters    = Milešovská 1136/5<br />

130 00 ̪Prague 3

| country        = Czech Republic

| country        = Czech Republic

| website        = [http://nic.cz CZ.NIC]

| website        = [http://nic.cz CZ.NIC]

| twitter        = CZ_NIC

| twitter        = CZ_NIC

| keypeople      =  

| keypeople      =  

[[Ondrej Filip]], CEO<br /> Martin Peterka, Operations Manager<br/> Ondrej Sury, R&D Manager<br/> [[Jaromir Talir]], Technical Manager

[[Ondrej Filip]], CEO<br /> Martin Peterka, Operations Manager<br/> [[Jaromir Talir]], Technical Fellow

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'''CZ.NIC''' is an interest association of legal persons and the administrator of the .CZ national domain. Its main activity is administration of .CZ domain names, ensuring of the .CZ top-level domain operation and education in the area of domain names.

'''CZ.NIC''' is an interest association of legal persons and the administrator of the .cz national [[ccTLD]]. Its main activity is administration of .cz domain names, ensuring of the .cz top-level domain operation and education in the area of domain names. The organization also runs the 0.2.4.e164.arpa ([[ENUM]]) domain.<ref name="centr">[https://centr.org/member/cznic CENTR.org - Member Information, CZ.NIC]</ref><ref name="niccz">[http://www.nic.cz/ CZ.NIC]</ref>

The employees of the association work on individual projects spreading the DNSSEC technology, developing the domain administration system and mojeID service and promoting new technologies beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic. Since January 2011, CZ.NIC has also collaborated on operating the national security team CSIRT.CZ

The employees of the association work on individual projects spreading the DNSSEC technology, developing the domain administration system and mojeID service and promoting new technologies beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic. Since January 2011, CZ.NIC has also collaborated on operating the national security team CSIRT.CZ.

'''CZ.NIC''' operates a learning center CZ.NIC Academy and carries out its own researches under the CZ.NIC Laboratories brand. In the Laboratories it develops original tools for the development of the Internet infrastructure and analyzes online security-related problems. CZ.NIC is a member of EURid, the organization administering the European .EU domain, as well as of other international companies with similar specialization (CENTR, ccNSO, etc.).

CZ.NIC operates a learning center CZ.NIC Academy and carries out its own researches under the CZ.NIC Laboratories brand. In the Laboratories it develops original tools for the development of the Internet infrastructure and analyzes online security-related problems. CZ.NIC is a member of [[EURid]], the organization administering the European .EU domain, as well as of other international companies with similar specializations ([[CENTR]], [[ccNSO]], etc.).<ref name="centr"></ref>

==Key projects of the CZ.NIC Association==

==Key projects of the CZ.NIC Association==

===TURRIS===

===TURRIS===

A service that helps users to protect their home networks by using a special router. In addition to normal home router functions, it is also able to analyze network traffic and identify suspicious data streams. If such data stream is detected, the router alerts the [https://www.turris.cz/en/ '''Turris'''] central that, by comparing data from other routers connected to Turris, evaluates the detected threat. If an attack is detected, updates are created and distributed throughout the Turris network to help protect all other users.

A service that helps users to protect their home networks by using a special router. In addition to normal home router functions, it is also able to analyze network traffic and identify suspicious data streams. If such data stream is detected, the router alerts the [https://www.turris.cz/en/ '''Turris'''] central that, by comparing data from other routers connected to Turris, evaluates the detected threat. If an attack is detected, updates are created and distributed throughout the Turris network to help protect all other users.

===CZ.NIC Laboratories===

===CZ.NIC Laboratories===

A development and research institute of the CZ.NIC Association that is engaged in research on the Internet, Internet protocols, network operation analysis, passive and active monitoring and design of prototypes for further development within CZ.NIC. The work of [https://labs.nic.cz/ '''CZ.NIC Laboratories'''] focuses on the benefit of the local Internet community; however, the scope of its work is international.

A development and research institute of the CZ.NIC Association that is engaged in research on the Internet, Internet protocols, network operation analysis, passive and active monitoring and design of prototypes for further development within CZ.NIC. The work of [https://labs.nic.cz/ '''CZ.NIC Laboratories'''] focuses on the benefit of the local Internet community; however, the scope of its work is international.