Completed Events

Email system restart

Tuesday April 28th, 2015

3:05 PM PT – We are in the process of restarting our mail cluster as a result of performance issues. We expect mail services to be operational again at approximately 3:15 PM PT. No email will be lost during the restart. We ask that any affected customers close their mail clients until after 3:15 as multiple ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Donuts and Rightside

Tuesday April 28th, 2015

On Tuesday April 28th, Donuts and Rightside are performing system maintenance to further improve their registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 1 hour maintenance window from 3:00 PM PT on April 28th to 4:00 PM PT on April 28th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Donuts related domains, which are listed ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Donuts

Monday April 27th, 2015

On Monday April 27th, and Rightside is performing system maintenance to further improve their registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 1 hour maintenance window from 3:00 PM PT on April 27th to 4:00 PM PT on April 27th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to and Rightside related domains, which ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Verisign

Saturday April 25th, 2015

On Saturday April 25th, 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 6:00 PM PT on April 25th to 6:45 PT on April 25th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to .COM and .NET ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Minds and Machines

Thursday April 23rd, 2015

At Midnight between Wednesday, April 22, 2015 and Thursday, April 23, 2015 , Minds & Machines is performing system maintenance to further improve their registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 2 hour maintenance window from 12:00 AM PT on April 23 to 2:00 AM PT on April 23. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This ...

Office power outage

Sunday April 05th, 2015

7:30 AM PT: We are currently experiencing a power outage at the Webnames Vancouver office, which has also affected out upstream Internet provider. While this outage  will not affect any services subscribed to by customers, it does impact our phone support via 1 866 221-7878 as well as all other contact numbers. Therefore, phone support ...

Email Systems Outage

Thursday April 02nd, 2015

6:00 PM PT –  We had one of the servers in our mail cluster go offline, for approximately 30 minutes. Servers are back online now and we are processing the backlog of mail now. Things should be 100% shortly. Thank you for your patience! 5:30 PM PT – Webnames is aware of an issue affecting customer email. Details are being ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Verisign

Tuesday March 31st, 2015

On Tuesday March 31, 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 1 hour maintenance window from 3:00 PM PT on Tuesday March 31 to 5:00 PM PT on March 31. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to .COM and ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Donuts

Monday March 16th, 2015

On Monday March 16, Donuts 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 2:00 PM PT on March 16 to 3:30 PM PT on March 16 . During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Donuts related domains, which are listed ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Rightside

Monday March 16th, 2015

On Monday March 16th, Rightside Registry 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 10:00 AM PT on March 16th to 11:30 AM PT on March 16th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Rightside related domains, which are ...