Completed Events

.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/

Webnames Phone System Disruption

Monday November 01st, 2021

7:05 PM PT: Telephony services from our telco provider have been fully restored. 4:00 PM PT: Our upstream telco provider has suffered a power loss at one of their centers. Power is being restored as quickly as possible. Attention Webnames.ca Customers, We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our internal phone system. We expect to have a resolution/update ...

Webnames Email and DNS Outage

Monday August 23rd, 2021

4:00 PM PT – We have reallocated resources and DNS responsiveness are now at or near 100%. Issues affecting email and DNS of websites should now be resolved. 3:15 PM PT – Webnames is aware of an issue affecting customer email and DNS of websites, details are being gathered now and more information will be posted ...

Notice of .CA Registry Maintenance

Thursday June 17th, 2021

On Thursday, June 17th, 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 3 hour maintenance window from 8:00 PM PT on June 17th to 11:00 PM PT on June 17th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only ...

Notice of .CA Registry Maintenance

Thursday April 15th, 2021

On Thursday, April 15th, 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 4 hour maintenance window from 8:00 PM PT on April 15th to 12:00 AM PT on April 16th. During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only ...

Notice of Web Hosting Maintenance

Thursday December 24th, 2020

Attention Webnames.ca Hosting Customers, Please be advised that we will be performing an emergency upgrade to our website hosting platform beginning at 9:00 PM PT Thursday, December 24th (12:00 AM ET). During a 30-minute maintenance window, the availability and functionality of hosted websites will be impacted for up to 3 minutes. This maintenance is in accordance with our ...

Notice of Registry Maintenance

Wednesday December 09th, 2020

On December 9th, Donuts 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 starting at 2:00 PM PT on Wednesday, Dec 9th During this time, certain Registrant transactions will be intermittently impacted. This maintenance only pertains to Donuts related domains, which are listed here. No ...

Notice of Emergency Hosting Maintenace

Thursday November 05th, 2020

12:58 PM PT – All servers are back up and running normally 12:50 PM PT – Customers should be advised that we are performing emergency maintenance that may affect the availability of some hosted websites for up to 5 minutes. This notice will be updated when more information becomes available and/or the maintenance is complete.