Nameserver Registration

 

Please note that all nameservers, used to host .is domains, must be registered with ISNIC. If the nameservers, to which you wish to delegate your .is-domain to, are not registered with ISNIC, you must ask your ISP (i.e. your hosting company) to register them with ISNIC. Your ISP then automatically becomes the domain's zone contact. The zone contact must have full authority over the nameserver, and be willing and able to remedy all technical problems with all .is-domains hosted on his nameservers.

ISNIC's tech. requirements

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Workshop day, no phone support

ISNIC's phoneservice is closed today, friday, March 1. due to a Workshop.

Our service is a "self service" and any normal domain issue, such as renewal, invoice retrieval, change billing contact, registrant transfer, domain redelegation, forwarding and parking a domain, can all be performed directly on our website.

Please use our new search/login window (here above) to locate your NIC handle (login information) and password reset options if you have problems logging into the system.

We are constantly increasing our on-line services, and recommend that everyone should be familiar with it, and also review your domains registration. Negligence can cost you your domain. One security tool, is automatic renewal with credit card, which renews your domain automatically 60 days before it expires. Summer vacation is another problem area, where the renewal notice may become lost or unseen during the time the contacts are away from their e-mail.

 

30 Years of TCP/IP

On january 1st 1983, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) was made the default protocol for network communication on the ARPAnet. TCP replaced NCP which had been the primary protocol since 1969. At the time, about 400 hosts were connected to the network. Today, connected devices are estimated to number over one billion (ISC Survey).

ISNIC maintained a hostcount between 1990 and 2010 for registered hosts. Starting in 1990 with 14 hosts - up to 300 thousand in 2010 when we stopped counting! (ISNIC Survey).

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

ISNIC's office will be closed over the holidays until 27th of December, but you can still register your beautiful .is-domain on-line as always.

If you haven't done it before, just start by writing the domain idea in the big Google like search window above and go from there.

"We whish you a merry christmas, and a happy new year."

ISNIC's Team.

D-Root changes it's IPv4 address

From the announcement:

 

Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.


This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IPv4
address for one of the authorities listed for the DNS root zone and
the .ARPA TLD. The change is to D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is
administered by the University of Maryland.

The new IPv4 address for this authority is 199.7.91.13

The current IPv6 address for this authority is  2001:500:2d::d and it
will continue to remain unchanged.

This change is anticipated to be implemented in the root zone on 3
January 2013, however the new address is currently operational. It
will replace the previous IP address of 128.8.10.90 (also once known
as TERP.UMD.EDU).

We encourage operators of DNS infrastructure to update any references
to the old IP address, and replace it with the new address. In
particular, many DNS resolvers have a DNS root “hints” file. This
should be updated with the new IP address.

New hints files will be available at the following URLs once the
change has been formally executed:

http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root

http://www.internic.net/domain/named.cache

The old address will continue to work for at least six months after
the transition, but will ultimately be retired from service.