diff --git a/app/models/contact.rb b/app/models/contact.rb
index abae9e8be..06a819616 100644
--- a/app/models/contact.rb
+++ b/app/models/contact.rb
@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   accepts_nested_attributes_for :address, :disclosure
 
-  validates :name, :phone, :email, :ident, :address, :registrar, presence: true
-
-  validate :ident_must_be_valid
+  validates :name, :phone, :email, :ident, :address, :registrar, :ident_type, presence: true
 
   validates :phone, format: /\+[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,14}?/ # /\+\d{3}\.\d+/
   validates :email, format: /@/
+  validates :ident, format: /\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}/, if: proc { |c| c.ident_type == 'birthday' }
+
+  validate :ident_must_be_valid
 
   validates :code, uniqueness: { message: :epp_id_taken }
 
@@ -135,7 +136,8 @@ class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
       ],
       '2005' => [ # Value syntax error
         [:phone, :invalid],
-        [:email, :invalid]
+        [:email, :invalid],
+        [:ident, :invalid]
       ]
     }
   end
diff --git a/config/schedule.rb b/config/schedule.rb
index 68d484da2..3af205c71 100644
--- a/config/schedule.rb
+++ b/config/schedule.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 # rbenv support
 rbenv = 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH";eval "$(rbenv init -)";'
-path  = Whenever.path.sub(%r(\/releases\/.*), '/current')
+path  = Whenever.path.sub(%r{\/releases\/.*}, '/current')
 set :job_template, "/bin/bash -l -c '#{rbenv} :job'"
 job_type :runner, "cd #{path} && bin/rails r -e :environment \":task\" :output"
 
diff --git a/spec/epp/contact_spec.rb b/spec/epp/contact_spec.rb
index e74264e33..8b247aab5 100644
--- a/spec/epp/contact_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/epp/contact_spec.rb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ describe 'EPP Contact', epp: true do
       end
 
       it 'successfully saves ident type' do
-        xml = { ident: { value: '37605030299', attrs: { type: 'birthday' } } }
+        xml = { ident: { value: '1990-22-12', attrs: { type: 'birthday' } } }
         epp_request(create_contact_xml(xml), :xml)
         expect(Contact.last.ident_type).to eq('birthday')
       end
diff --git a/spec/models/contact_spec.rb b/spec/models/contact_spec.rb
index 70b11b2b9..e8e65d9a4 100644
--- a/spec/models/contact_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/contact_spec.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ describe Contact do
       expect(@contact.valid?).to be false
     end
 
+    it 'validates birthday' do
+      invalid = [ '123' '12/12/2012', 'aaaa', '12/12/12', '02-11-1999' ]
+      invalid.each do |date|
+        expect(Fabricate.build(:contact, ident_type: 'birthday', ident: date).valid?).to be false
+      end
+      valid = [ '2012-12-11', '1990-02-16' ]
+      valid.each do |date|
+        expect(Fabricate.build(:contact, ident_type: 'birthday', ident: date).valid?).to be true
+      end
+    end
+
+    it 'doesn\'t validate ico' do
+      expect(Fabricate.build(:contact, ident_type: 'ico', ident: '12312adsadwe').valid?).to be true
+    end
+
     it 'should return missing parameter error messages' do
       @contact = Contact.new
       expect(@contact.valid?).to eq false
@@ -27,7 +42,8 @@ describe Contact do
          email: ['Required parameter missing - email', 'Email is invalid'],
          ident: ['Required parameter missing - ident'],
          address: ['is missing'],
-         registrar: ['is missing']
+         registrar: ['is missing'],
+         ident_type: ['is missing']
       })
     end
   end