Update Log for portal.dns.business

The Registry for .africa will be performing planned maintenance on Thursday, 16 September from 21h00 - 22h00 SAST. This will result in downtime to the EPP registration services for .africa.

The Whois and DNS services will remain unaffected. 

New registrations require an email verification step which needs to be completed by the Registrant for the domain. The domain will only be published to the zone once this step is completed. This applies to ac.bw, co.bw and net.bw.

ZACR and Registry Africa will be performing a system wide database upgrade on Wednesday, 21 July from 07h00 - 09h00 SAST, in an effort to provide enhanced database responses and performance results in the future.

This will result in extended outages to the EPP registration services.

This means that processing creates, updates, transfers and other domain operations will not be available for the following zones: co.za, web.za, org.za, net.za, .africa, .capetown, .durban and .joburg.

Whois/RDAP and DNS services will remain unaffected.

Scheduled from 2021-06-10 02:30 SAST to 2021-06-10 06:30 SAST

During the service window, there will be system improvements and updates. This affects .biz, .co and .cloud domains on Gateway.

.apartments

.auction

.autos

.casino

.charity

.deals

.dentist

.doctor

.fan

.fans

.feedback

.football

.forum

.games

.gay

.gifts

.group

.hair

.healthcare

.homes

.hospital

.irish

.jetzt

.love

.ltd

.luxury

.makeup

.memorial

.monster

.mortgage

.motorcycles

.observer

.rehab

.reise

.repair

.restaurant

.salon

.sarl

.school

.social

.travel

.vet

.video

.yachts

Pricing and additional information available from the links in the pricelist here gateway.africa/pricing.

Please note that we have updated the Gateway system to perform a balance check immediately prior to a domain renewal on any ZACR or Registry Africa domains. If there is insufficient balance on your account to process the renewal at the remote registry the domain will be updated to auto renew false. No billing will then be performed for the domain renewal on your account. The normal deletion process will then apply to any lapsed domain.

We have updated the Gateway API to only apply the following statuses to a domain when locked:

 - clientTransferProhibited

 - clientUpdateProhibited

In the past 'clientDeleteProhibited' was also added which resulted in the auto renew flag being set to TRUE so as to not allow the domain to be deleted. This is not considered to be standard practice.

Any domain lock / unlock will not affect auto renew status and only two statuses are applied as per above.

This update concerns new additions for .GAY and .LUXURY which will be added along with these 8 new extensions on 1 June 2021:

.fans

.feedback

.forum

.hair

.love

.makeup

.monster

.observer

Domain Name Holder Requirements updated to version 3.3

From 1 June we will be adding VAT to all transactions for South African based Registrars and Resellers. This is a requirement from the South African Revenue Service.

There will also be a general price increase on some zones effective from 1 June 2021. View the new pricing here and note the entries marked in BOLD indicate a price adjustment.

If you have any questions please contact us on support@dns.business.

Please note that the domain transfer fee will now be invoiced on transfer initiation. Should the transfer be cancelled or rejected then the transfer fee would be automatically credited to the account. Should you have any questions please let us know.

Please can you make sure that the address country and province/state fields in your account information are correctly captured.

In the past these fields were plain text fields which we have recently updated to dropdown selection lists. This forms part of an update we are preparing for concerning MIS reporting.

To check your account info, navigate to 'Account' in the left menu and then the 'Address' tab.

Make any updates as needed and do let us know if you encounter any issues.

Thank you!

This takes us to 305 extensions offered. 

.baby

.bar

.beauty

.boats

.bond

.build

.ceo

.college

.design

See the pricelist for details on pricing. If you have any requests for particular extensions, let us know.

More coming soon!

.car .cars .auto and .art are available, see https://gateway.africa/pricing for more info and pricing. 

.Africa is no longer on promotion and the new, renew and transfer fees are now $13.00.

Please see Gateway Pricelist for more details. 

Updated to version 3.1 which includes provisions for new gTLDs .art/.car/.cars/.auto recently added to Gateway.

Please review and let us know if you have any questions in this regard.

Now available on Afilias domains as well as the Guernsey domains,  .JE and .GG.

If you have any questions in this regard please contact us.

Downtime on org.za, net.za, and web.za from 2021-03-03 10:00 SAST to 2021-03-03 11:00 SAST.

Expected downtime should be less than an hour.

Donuts is scheduling an upcoming maintenance window, scheduled for both OT&E and Production environments as set forth below.

Scheduled Maintenance Please note all times provided are in coordinated universal time (UTC)

Environment: OT&E
Date: Wednesday, Feb 3rd, 2021
Maintenance Window: 17:00 - 18:30 UTC
Expected Duration: 90 minutes

Environment: Production
Date: Monday, Feb 8th, 2021
Maintenance Window: 17:00 - 18:30 UTC
Expected Duration: 90 minutes

Maintenance is anticipated to take up to 90 minutes. EPP, Registrar Portal, WHOIS, and RDAP services will be unavailable during this time. DNS services will remain fully operational.

.online $3.50

.site $1.50

.store $5.70

.tech $5.70

.space $3.00

.fun $1.50

.website $3.00

.uno $3.00

This promotion is valid until 31 December 2021 and the following T's and C's apply:

An update has been made to this document to accommodate the new Radix extensions added in January 2021. Please review and let us know if you have any questions.

We have integrated with Radix and added 10 more extensions to Gateway:

.FUN

.HOST

.ONLINE

.PRESS

.SITE

.SPACE

.STORE

.TECH

.UNO

.WEBSITE

Pricing for these new extensions can be viewed in the Portal under Billing and Web-RAR or on https://gateway.africa/pricing.

Web-RAR, Gateway API and WHMCS services are back online as of yesterday 19h15, please notify us if there are any further issues.