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Norid AS

Abels gt. 5, Teknobyen

Phone +47 73 55 73 55

Easter opening hours

During the Easter holidays, Norid has the following opening hours:

System Maintenance 2024-02-13

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2024-02-13 from 09 AM to 11 AM CET.

System Maintenance 2023-10-31

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-10-31 from 09 AM to 11 AM CEST.

Letters will be stopped from 1 November

For six months starting on 1 November 2023 Norid will no longer send letters about deletion of domains to subscribers. These letters are normally a part of the notifications for automated deletion processes.

System Maintenance 2023-09-26

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-09-26 from 9 AM to 11 AM CEST.

Updated EPP client

Norid's EPP client has now been updated so it looks more similar to the registrar web, which was revised a while ago.

System Maintenance 2023-06-06

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-06-06 from 9 AM to 11 AM CEST

System Maintenance 2023-05-23

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-05-23 from 9 AM to 11 AM CEST.

Easter opening hours

During the Easter holidays, Norid has the following opening hours:

System Maintenance 2023-02-21

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-02-21 from 9 AM to 11 AM CET.

Letters will be stopped in February

This February Norid will not send letters about deletion of domains to subscribers. These letters are normally a part of the notifications for automated deletion processes.

Notice of price increase

On Saturday 1 April 2023 the subscription fee will be raised to 65 NOK.

System Maintenance 2023-01-17

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2023-01-17 from 9 AM to 11 AM CET.

Holiday opening hours

For the Christmas holidays Norid will have the following opening hours:

Authenticated access to RDAP

Norid now offers authenticated access to our RDAP lookup service, rdap.norid.no. Authenticated queries give extended access to data and an extended set of search functions.

Annual registrar fee

All registrars must pay for at least 100 domain name subscriptions each calendar year.

Reminder – Survey about RDAP

Remember to answer the survey about RDAP. The deadline to participate is 7 November 2022.

Survey about RDAP

RDAP is a lookup service for domain data which is the successor to the current whois protocol. The service is currently under development at many registries, and at Norid as well. Due to this we have made a survey which we hope you as a registrar can answer.

Invitation to registrar seminar and dinner

Norid will arrange a seminar for registrars on Thursday 17 November in Oslo, with a dinner the night before. This seminar will be held in Norwegian only.

Authenticated access to RDAP

Norid now offers authenticated access to our lookup service, RDAP. Currently this is only available in our test environment, rdap.test.norid.no. Authenticated queries give extended access to data and an extended set of search functions.

The new registrar web is now live

The updated registrar web is now live. You will find the same information as before, but we recommend that you log in and familiarize yourself with the new interface. 

New registrar web coming on 11 October 2022

An updated registrar web is coming soon. The new registrar web has a new look and an improved user interface, but you will find the same information as in the current version.

System Maintenance 2022-08-30

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2022-08-30 from 9 AM to 11 AM CEST. The registry system (EPP and the EPP client), PID automaton, applicant declaration system, registrar web, whois, RDAP and DAS will be unavailable during the maintenance window. The name service (DNS) will not be affected.

Registrar seminar 17 November 2022

Norid will arrange a seminar for registrars on Thursday 17 November in Oslo. This seminar will be held in Norwegian only.

Norid AS is ISO 27001 certified

In June Norid achieved an ISO 27001 certification which covers all of our services, systems, locations and employees.

SSL/TLS certificate renewal – 2022-06-21

Tuesday 2022-06-21 at 09:00 – 11:00 CEST, Norid will perform renewal of the SSL/TLS certificate for the following registry services: epp.norid.noeppclient.norid.noregistrar.norid.no This will not affect the availability of these services. NB: New intermediate certificate will be installed.

IPv6 connectivity on authoritative nameservers

Norid wants to motivate for increased connectivity on IPv6 on authoritative nameservers under .no. We are now introducing some measures to heighten the awareness for registrars and nameserver operators on IPv6 connectivity:

System Maintenance 2022-06-14

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2022-06-14 from 9 AM to 11 AM CEST.

System Maintenance 2022-05-31

Norid is planning system maintenance on the registry system on Tuesday 2022-05-31from 8 AM to 10 AM CEST. The registry system (EPP and the EPP client), PID automaton, applicant declaration system, registrar web, whois, RDAP and DAS will be unavailable during the maintenance window. The name service (DNS) will not be affected.

Easter opening hours

During the Easter holidays, Norid has the following opening hours:

New name on the email list for registrars

Norid has changed the name on the email list for registrars from registrar@lists.norid.no to forhandlere@norid.no. At the same time the list was moved to Exchange as the new email list service.

Holiday opening hours

For the Christmas holidays Norid will have the following opening hours:

DNSSEC algorithm roll of the zones .no and .sj.

In January next year, Norid will perform a DNSSEC algorithm roll on the zones .no and .sj. During the roll, the DNSSEC keys in the zones (KSK and ZSK) will be changed from algorithm 8, RSASHA256, to algorithm 13, ECDSAP256SHA256.

New invoicing routine starts today

As previously announced, we have now changed the invoicing routine so that you pay for transactions after they have been made. You shall no longer make prepayments to your balance.

Update of the test system on 2 November 2021

To limit the access to some of the services at *.test.norid.no we will activate IP filtering for the services in the same way as being done in the production system.

Reminder: Norid will change the invoicing routine

Starting in November 2021 we will change our invoicing routine so that you pay for transactions after they have been made. This means that we will no longer require that registrars make prepayments.

DNSSEC algorithm roll of Norids zones under .no.

In November, Norid will perform a DNSSEC algorithm roll on all our zones under .no. The .no zone itself will not be changed at this time. During the roll, the DNSSEC keys in the zones (KSK and ZSK) will be changed from algorithm 8, RSASHA256, to algorithm 13, ECDSAP256SHA256. Only the keys for our own …

Increased security with new registrar agreement

There were 335 registrars in total when the process of a new registrar agreement began in June 2021. After the deadline for entering into the new agreement expired at the end of August, 268 registrars - eight out of ten - had chosen to continue the business with Norid.