Parents, applicants and students visit an institution's website for many reasons: admission rules, timetables, online classes, results. The site must be trustworthy and easy to tell apart from fakes. The edu.uz zone is a second-level zone set aside for education, and that ending tells visitors the site belongs to an educational institution.
Who can use an edu.uz domain
As a general rule the zone is meant for institutions operating under the established procedure: schools, colleges, technical schools, universities and similar organizations. Conditions may differ for private education providers and training centers, for example requiring an appropriate license or permit. Exact criteria are set by the current rules of the organization administering the .uz zone, so read the procedure on the zone administrator's official website before applying. If you do not qualify, a regular .uz domain works well too, provided the site clearly shows the institution's official status.
Questions to settle before applying
- Name: the institution's short, known name, possibly with the city; numbered schools often use number and district.
- Supporting documents confirming registration or the right to operate, plus an official request letter.
- Responsible staff appointed by position, with official email and phone.
- A technical plan for where the site, mail and learning platform will live.
The most common mistake is letting an enthusiastic teacher or outside developer register the domain and hosting in their own name. Years later that person leaves and the institution loses control of its site. The domain must belong to the institution, with access held by the administration.
Site structure with subdomains
Beyond the main site, an institution needs a learning management system, mail and sometimes an admissions portal. Placing them on subdomains lets each run on its own server or software while users see one institution. A sample zone for a hypothetical misol.edu.uz:
misol.edu.uz. A 203.0.113.20
www.misol.edu.uz. CNAME misol.edu.uz.
lms.misol.edu.uz. A 203.0.113.30
qabul.misol.edu.uz. A 203.0.113.20
misol.edu.uz. MX 10 mail.misol.edu.uz.
mail.misol.edu.uz. A 203.0.113.40
misol.edu.uz. TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all"The main site and admissions portal share a server, while the learning system has its own. Certificates may be separate or shared; what matters is that every address opens over HTTPS.
Example: a Namangan college's learning platform
A college in Namangan introduced Moodle for distance learning. At first it shared hosting with the main site, but on exam days, with hundreds of students logging in at once, the main site slowed down too. Moodle was moved to a separate server on lms.misol.edu.uz; the main site became independent of exam load, and students barely noticed because the button on the main site pointed to the new subdomain. Moodle needs its scheduled tasks to run regularly, so a cron job was added:
# Run Moodle scheduled tasks every minute
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/moodle/admin/cli/cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1Paths vary by server. Check the PHP and database requirements for your Moodle version in the official documentation before installing.
Protecting student data
School sites store student names, grades, parents' phone numbers and other personal data, much of it about minors. Uzbek legislation sets requirements for processing and storing personal data, including storing citizens' data on servers in the country; confirm specific obligations with the institution's lawyer. The technical minimum: HTTPS everywhere, strong passwords and two-factor authentication for administrators where possible, regular updates of software and plugins, and database backups kept in a separate location.
Keeping the domain stable for years
An outage during admissions or exams affects hundreds of families. Add domain and SSL expiry dates to the academic-year plan, update contacts when the responsible employee changes, and use a position-based official mailbox rather than a personal one. For hosting, SSL and DNS questions you can consult sayt.uz support; for the edu.uz registration procedure, rely on the zone administrator's current rules.