History
About the .pl domain name registry
Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa (NASK), a national research institute, maintains the registry of the country code domain, enabling registration of .pl domain names as well as a series of functional and regional domains. Registration is effected through registrars enrolled to the Partner Programme established by NASK in December 2002.
In 2003 NASK, as one of the first registries, provided a fully automatic registry system, based on a modified Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP).
In July 2013 NASK took over the service of .gov.pl domain from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Polish Academy of Sciences). Registration of .gov.pl domain names is available only to entitled entities and effected directly by NASK.
NASK is an active member of CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries), closely cooperates with the organization coordinating the operation of the Internet worldwide, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), associating county code registries within ICANN.
Timeline of milestones in the history of the .pl registry
1990
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July
establishment of .pl ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain)
1991
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first operating domains: fuw.edu.pl, astrouw.edu.pl, camk.edu.pl, uw.edu.pl, uj.edu.pl, cyf-kr.edu.pl
1992
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January
entrusting the NASK Coordination Team, operating at the Warsaw University, with the service of .pl domain
1993
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December
establishment of NASK as a research and development unit, NASK takes over all obligations of the Coordination Team
1996
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January
introduction of single payments for domain registration and maintenance
1999
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January
introduction of annual payments for administrative and technical service of domain names
2000
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December
implementation of an electronic system of reservation and registration of .pl domain names
2002
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December
establishment of Partner Programme
2003
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January
establishment of the first arbitration court in Poland, settling disputes on .pl domain names, at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications
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March
launching of Registry – the system of automatic registration and service of .pl domain names with the application of EPP
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September
introduction of registration of domain names with national signs, IDN (NASK is the first registry in Europe and one of the first in the World to implement this solution)
2004
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March
certification of compliance with ISO 9001 standard (NASK is the first registry to be certified with this standard)
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June
introduction of WLS (Waiting List Service) - option for registration of a .pl domain name
2008
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January
implementation of dynamic zone update (every 15 minutes)
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May
one million .pl domain names, commencement of publishing the list of domain names deleted from DNS
2009
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September
launching of a pre-paid settlement model in the Registry system
2011
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January
two million .pl domain names
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December
provision of domain names secured with DNSSEC
2012
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June
providing the registrants of .pl domain names with the facility of securing their zones with the DNSSEC protocol
2013
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July
takeover of the service of .gov.pl domain from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Polish Academy of Sciences)
2014
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June
provision of .gov.pl domain secured with the DNSSEC protocol
2015
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June
cessation of .pl domain names registration directly at NASK
2016
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December
cessation of direct service of registrants of .pl domain names
2017
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March
100% of registrants of .pl domain names are serviced in the registry-registrar model
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November
certification of compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard, received by NASK for the information security management system. The certificate also covers the processes handled in the .pl domain registry
2018
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July
new website www.dns.pl
2019
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March
launching of .pl Registry Lock service
2020
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February
withdrawal of the .pl domain name reservation service
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March
implementation of a new system responsible for securing .pl zones with the DNSSEC protocol
2022
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October
change of the price list for registrars
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December
20th anniversary of the NASK Partner Programme
2023
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January
change of the Regulations for names in the .gov.pl domain