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The ZA Central Registry will be performing updates to its Financial Systems on Saturday, 23 July 2016 from 19h30 SAST until 21h30 SAST (17h30 UTC until 19h30 UTC).    During this period, the ZACR EPP service will not be available for the following domain name spaces:    .CO.ZA .NET.ZA .ORG.ZA .WEB.ZA .CAPETOWN .DURBAN .JOBURG  ..
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Dear Registrar,   The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has made some material changes to Version 10 (now Version 11) of its Registry-Registrar Agreement (RRA), which you are required to be aware of and adhere to.   You may access the following links with regards to the amendments:   •Registry-Registrar Agreement Version 10 •Registry-Registrar Agreement Version..
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The Winter Sale will be active from July 4th 2016 (00h00 AM (SAST) until July 8th (23h59 PM (SAST). The wholesale prices for both ICANN Registrars and Proxy Resellers are published on the Registrar Panel and available at the following links, after logging into your registrar account: ICANN Accredited Registrars Proxy Resellers Pricing will be..
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The CO.ZA EPP Production Server SSL Certificate will be changed to a new SSL certificate on Tuesday 7 June 2016 at 07h00 SAST.  Registrars connecting to the epp.coza.net.za server via EPP will need to upload the new certificate to their key stores. The new certificate can be downloaded here. For queries or more information please..
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We have identified a technical problem that occurred during the sending of the ZA Central Registry weekly invoices for the period of 16 May 2016 to 23 May 2016. Certain Registrars may not have received their invoices by email. The issue has subsequently been resolved and you should receive future invoices to your designated billing..
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The ZA Central Registry will be performing Server Maintenance on its administrative servers on Thursday 26 May 2016 from 06h30 SAST to 07h30 SAST. The Maintenance Period will last a total of 1 hour. During the Maintenance Period the Registry Website and Registrar Portal at https://www.registry.net.za will be unavailable. All other registry services will remain..
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The ZACR gTLD EPP Servers will be undergoing emergency security updates at 14h00 SAST on Monday 16th May 2016 for a period of 30 minutes. Connectivity to the servers will not be affected, with no downtime anticipated for the update. Registrars experiencing an SSL handshake error with the message “DH key too small” should be..
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With reference to the notice posted on 3 February 2016 (CO.ZA Data Policy Update), the ZA Central Registry will be shutting down the old CO.ZA WHOIS server available at “whois.registry.net.za”.   The shutdown of the old server will occur on Wednesday 4 May 2016 at 07h00 SAST. Following this, the only authoritative WHOIS server for..
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The ZA Central Registry will be performing a scheduled Database Upgrade on its Second Level Domain Name databases on Tuesday 10 May 2016 from 06h30 SAST to 07h30 SAST. The Upgrade Period will last a total of 1 hour.   During the Upgrade Period all the registry systems for the following .ZA SLDs will be..
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The ZA Central Registry will be performing a Database Upgrade on its Second Level Domain Name databases on Tuesday 26 April 2016 from 06h30 SAST to 07h30 SAST. The Upgrade Period will last a total of 1 hour.   During the Upgrade Period all the registry systems for the following .ZA SLDs will be unavailable:..
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