Cisco email: Get compliant. Update your email domain before time runs out.

[Dieselboy]

The bottom line.
Cisco will be forced to remove any non-compliant partner users from their company record if they have failed to update their non-corporate email domain by October 31, 2019. Once removed, partner-entitled user accounts having public email domains will no longer be able to access Cisco systems and tools. This includes losing access to Partner Self Service (PSS), Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW), training, Total Partner View (TPV), and all other partner tools and applications.

I have a gmail email address which is linked to my CCO username and CCO number. I login to cisco.com with my CCO username but the email on that account is my gmail which is correct. All my Cisco certifications are registered to that CCO number.

At the place I work, I have associated my gmail account (Cisco certifications etc) to my company parter cisco.com account.

From the looks of this, it looks like I cannot associate myself with the company after October because I have a gmail domain as an email domain.

So what does this mean for individuals holding Cisco certs? Do I have to go and create myself an email system and purchase domain ownership? What about if you just want to maintain your CCO login to continue being certified and ongoing certifications?

I could technically update my CCO accounts email address to be that of the company I work for. But then what happens if I leave the company or worse? I dont want to lose access to my CCO profile either.

I am a bit confused about this one.

[SimonV]

I've had the same problem where I was associated to a partner account but still needed access to customer entitlements but wanted to move my certs associations to my own company. I had to create a ticket on the Cisco certification site and they manually moved my certifications to the new account.

TBT, I do have my own domain and not a gmail account.

[icecream-guy]

That IS messy for contractors,  especially when the support contracts are tied to the customer, and one works for a partner.
I took advice given here a while ago to have multiple CCO accounts. I have a few now, personal where my certifications are tied,
one where all the customer contracts are tied, and one tied to my company/partner info.

[deanwebb]

I've got just the personal account.

I still get info on license issues at former employers...

[Dieselboy]

I still don't get it. Obviously there's something that I am missing... It seemed like by associating my CCO account (and therefore my personal email address) I was getting access to something extra that I didn't need. I thought, may be software downloads? But I checked and nope...

So I'm going to leave it until the cutoff date and see what breaks and go from there.