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Anycast dns provider change

Summary: The AnyCast dns provider that we’ve been using for the last few years was acquired last year and the new company decided to end of life the service. With that in mind we’ve been working on replacing them for some time and we’re finally ready to make the switch. What: We have synchronised all […]

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Anycast DNS outage

Summary: We started seeing sporadic responses from our AnyCast  DNS servers last night. We contacted AfiliasDNS who operate that service for us. As of yet we haven’t had a reply or a resolution from them that gives us any insight as to what the problem is. What impact is there on customers: Typically, none. But […]

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Scheduled Maintenance on Internal Blacknight systems 12:00 -14:00 14/12/2022

Blacknight will be carrying out essential maintenance on our domain registration platform between 12:00 – 14:00 Irish time, on Wednesday 14th December 2022. This will impact the purchasing or updates of domains for a short period. The outage is expected to be no more than 20 minutes, but we are allowing a window of 2 […]

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DNS Manager essential maintenance

Summary: On Thursday 24/6 between 10:00am and 12pm our DNS Manager will undergo essential works. It will not be accessible to customers for the duration of the upgrade. What: In order to facilitate the move of DNS manager between servers, operating systems and updated php versions we need to take it down for a 2 […]

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