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The following servers will be taken offline on Friday 17th of Feb starting at 10:00pm to facilitate migration to newer hardware. pemmysql07-5 pemmysql20-5 pemmysql21-5 pemmysql51-5 pemmysql52-5 Approximate downtime per server is 20-30 minutes.
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. […]
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 […]
The following servers will be taken offline on Wednesday 1st Feb starting at 11:00pm to facilitate migration to newer hardware. The order of these going offline is as follows: pemlinweb04 pemlinweb31 pemlinweb32 pemlinweb33 pemlinweb35 pemlinweb38 Approximate downtime per server is 20-30 minutes.