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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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.ie registration and transfer problem

Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie  (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]

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.irish gtld offline

Summary: The .irish gTLD was acquired late in 2016 and is moving to a new backend provider on the 1st of March. However it appears that the nameservers for the tld have been changed prematurely. The resulting knock on effect is that all domains that end in .irish do not resolve at the moment.   […]

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DNS Belgium Scheduled Maintenance

DNS Belgium, the .be domain name registry, has announced scheduled maintenance this weekend. During the maintenance window no new .be domain registrations will be possible. Updates, renewals and transfers of existing .be domain names will not be available during the maintenance window. Whois will not be available. Existing .be domain names will continue to resolve […]

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