Completed Events

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 ...

Notice of Emergency Webnames Hosting Maintenance

Thursday February 26th, 2015

Attention Webnames.ca Customers, Please be advised that we will be performing critical emergency hosting maintenance in the late evening of Thursday Feb 26th. This maintenance will affect web hosting services provided by Webnames. During a 1 hour maintenance window, customers should expect services to be unavailable intermittently for up to 15 minutes. Configuration upgrades will be performed on our hosting infrastructure ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Verisign

Saturday February 21st, 2015

On Saturday Feb 21st, 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 5:00 PM PT on Feb 21 to 6:00 PM PT on Feb 21. 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

Saturday February 14th, 2015

On Saturday February 14th, 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 11:00 PM PT on Feb 14th to 1:00 AM PT on Feb 15th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Minds & Machines related domains, ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – CIRA

Thursday February 12th, 2015

On Thursday February 12th, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is performing system maintenance to further improve the .CA registry system. In order to successfully complete the maintenance there will be a 2 hour maintenance window from 8:00 PM PT on Feb 12th to 10:00 PM PT on Feb 12th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance – Donuts

Monday February 09th, 2015

On Monday February 9th, 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 Feb 9th to 3:30 PT on Feb 9th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Donuts related domains, which are listed ...