diff --git a/app/models/contact.rb b/app/models/contact.rb
index 096ea9f59..e7e6933cb 100644
--- a/app/models/contact.rb
+++ b/app/models/contact.rb
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
     uniqueness: { message: :epp_id_taken },
     format: { with: /\A[\w\-\:\.\_]*\z/i, message: :invalid },
     length: { maximum: 100, message: :too_long_contact_code }
-  validates :ident_type, inclusion: {in: %w( org priv birthday), message: :invalid}
+  validates :ident_type, inclusion: {in: %w( org priv birthday), message: :ident_type_invalid}
   validate :val_ident_valid_format?
   validate :uniq_statuses?
   validate :validate_html
diff --git a/app/models/epp/contact.rb b/app/models/epp/contact.rb
index f6bf54f74..8e1da8e4b 100644
--- a/app/models/epp/contact.rb
+++ b/app/models/epp/contact.rb
@@ -126,13 +126,15 @@ class Epp::Contact < Contact
         [:ident, :invalid_birthday_format],
         [:ident, :invalid_country_code],
         [:ident_type, :missing],
-        [:ident_type, :invalid],
         [:code, :invalid],
         [:code, :too_long_contact_code]
       ],
       '2302' => [ # Object exists
         [:code, :epp_id_taken]
       ],
+      '2304' => [ # Object status prohibits operation
+        [:ident_type, :epp_ident_type_invalid, { value: { obj: 'code', val: code } }]
+      ],
       '2305' => [ # Association exists
         [:domains, :exist]
       ],
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index dbba4d031..16e29ae45 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ en:
               invalid_EE_identity_format_update: "Ident not in valid Estonian identity format. Please create new contact"
               invalid_birthday_format: "Ident not in valid birthady format, should be YYYY-MM-DD"
               invalid_country_code: "Ident country code is not valid, should be in ISO_3166-1 alpha 2 format"
+            ident_type:
+              ident_type_invalid: 'Ident type is invalid'
+              epp_ident_type_invalid: 'Object status prohibits operation: ident_type of contact %{code} is invalid'
             domains:
               exist: 'Object association prohibits operation'
             statuses: