Following the government resolution of August 16, 2023 on the schedule for the migration of central state administration bodies to the unified state domain gov.cz on December 18, 2023, the domains of the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all embassies abroad will be transferred.
Czech diplomacy is thus one of the first state administration bodies to switch to a single domain for state websites and e-mail addresses. The current domain mzv.cz will remain functional for some time and the domain mzv.gov.cz redirects the user.
The key advantage of a unified domain is high cyber security and legal certainty wherever the state communicates with citizens. Based on the website address, the user will be able to make sure that he is on the official website of the office.
Not only from abroad, but also in the Czech Republic, there are known cases where fraudsters tried to imitate official websites or ensure redirection from them to another domain. These phishing attacks and attempts will be easier to detect thanks to the gov.cz domain, and it is assumed that the number of frauds will decrease as a result of the transition to a unified state domain.
A single domain for state websites increases credibility and friendliness even for foreign partners. The idea of a state domain gov is not new, similar to the Czech Republic it is used in, for example, Belgium, Estonia, Croatia, Poland or the United Kingdom. At the same time as the address of the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies will change on December 18, 2023, the e-mail addresses of employees and individual departments will also change. However, in the interest of maintaining continuity in communication, existing e-mail addresses with the domain @mzv.cz will remain functional and ensure the delivery of e-mails to new mailboxes with the domain for another 10 years, i.e. until December 17, 2033.@mzv.gov.cz
In the case of e-mail addresses of employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies of the Czech Republic, the underscore between the first and last name was removed and replaced with a period (e.g. the current address jan_novak@mzv.cz will be newly jan.novak@mzv.gov.cz). The word “embassy” has been removed from the e-mail addresses of embassies (e.g. the current address of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bratislava bratislava@embassy.mzv.cz will be bratislava@mzv.gov.cz). The syntax of e-mail addresses of departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also been simplified.
Domain migration is a process that unfortunately also involves unwanted errors. We therefore welcome notification of any broken web or email address by sending a message using this link