Completed Events

DNS MAINTENANCE NOTICE

Wednesday July 12th, 2023

DNS MAINTENANCE NOTICE: Please note that we are performing maintenance on our DNS infrastructure at 4:00 PM PT July 12th, 2023. The maintenance is expected to take approximately one hour, during which DNS updates will not take effect. For any DNS updates that are attempted during the maintenance window, we will reapply any that were submitted during ...

DNS MAINTENANCE NOTICE

Tuesday June 20th, 2023

DNS MAINTENANCE NOTICE: Please note that we are performing maintenance on our DNS infrastructure at 4:00 PM PT June 20th, 2023. The maintenance is expected to take approximately one hour, during which DNS updates will not take effect. For any DNS updates that are attempted during the maintenance window, we will reapply any that were ...

Notice of Webnames.ca Maintenance

Monday May 29th, 2023

Website maintenance is scheduled for Monday, May 29. The planned full site outage will be from 8:00 to 9:30pm PDT. Services Unavailable: Webnames accounts, including domain management, renewals Webnames site, including domain search and monitoring MailAdmin LiteSite published sites will be down WHOIS & RDAP Services Available: DNS Parked/forwarded domains Plesk Website hosting Email sending and receiving, plus webmail This maintenance is in accordance with our policy to ensure ...

Notice of .ORG registry communication disruption

Tuesday November 08th, 2022

1:15 PM PT: Please note that we are aware that connections to the .ORG registry pertaining to registrations, renewals, transfers and name server updates have been disrupted. We are currently working with the .ORG registry to diagnose and resolve this issue.

Notice of Registry Maintenance – PIR

Monday June 27th, 2022

On June 27th, PIR is performing system maintenance to further improve their registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 90-minute maintenance window from 12:00 PM PT to 1:30 PM PT. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to PIR related domains, which include .charity .foundation .gives & ...

Notice of website issue

Tuesday June 21st, 2022

Please note that we are currently experiencing performance issues with our website. Our staff are currently investigating and working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Phone Service Migration

Wednesday March 23rd, 2022

1:00 PM PT: All telephony services have been restored. Apologies to everyone for the disruption when trying to reach us earlier. ————————————— 12:45 PM PT: Approximately half our telephony services are restored. The remainder are expected to be up and running within the next 20 minutes. ————————————— Please note that we are currently moving our phone services ...

.CA Registry Issue

Wednesday January 26th, 2022

4:45 PM PT: Issues and the .CA Registry have been resolved and services are fully restored. We are aware of a technical issue at the .CA registry which began at approximately 3:00 PM PT, which affects the lookup, registration, renewals, transfers and name server updates of all .CA domain names. This issue has been escalated and confirmed ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Verisign

Saturday January 22nd, 2022

On January 22nd, 2022 Verisign is performing system maintenance to further improve the .COM and .NET registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 45 minute maintenance window from 5PM PT on January 22 to 545PM PT on January 22 . During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance ...

PHISHING EMAIL ALERT

Wednesday December 15th, 2021

Phishing emails concerning domain names, additional fees, and threats of suspension have been reported to us by vigilant customers. https://blog.webnames.ca/phishing-alert-fraudulent-domain-expiry-email-citing-icann-and-webnames/