Month: January 2012

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NetEarth One Uncategorized

ES and EU registrations using Billing applications

If you are using a billing application that does not use the API’s “check availability call” for gathering availability of .ES, .EU and .WS then please drop in a ticket to support to get a configuration change.

Do I need it:

If you are using whmcs or awbs or a billing application that has a whoislookup file AND If you sell . EU / .ES then yes you do.

How do I fix it:

Drop an email into support [at] netearthone.com, subject of : “WHOIS EU and ES” with your Reseller ID (Number), 2 numbers from your PIN, your servers IP address and the request for access to our lookup script and we will enable you to do it and reply with the modifications needed.

Why should I:

It would appear that some billing applications like whmcs, do not use a proper method for lookup of .ES domain names as the ES registry does not offer an end user port 43 service, and thus it allows for registration of prohibited domains, these are then registered with the LB platform and you are charged.  The Spanish registry then deletes these prohibited registrations without any refund.  We have also seen a reseller using .EU have their whmcs checking ability abused and EURID have blocked their IP address for 90 days.

 

Ultimately it is up to you if you do this or not 🙂

 

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Downime notice NetEarth One

LB DNS database updates

There will be a downtime on the LB DNSBLL Database as per the below mentioned schedule during which you will not be able to add or modify records on your domain names.

Date      :15-01-2012

Duration  : 2 hours

Time      : 7.00 GMT – 9.00 GMT (12:30 IST – 14:30 IST )

The DNS service will not be effected.

LB DNS servers will keep serving traffic.

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NetEarth One Registry Price Increase Uncategorized

Verisign price increase – specifics :-

Further to our various notifications by blog and control panel, we are specifying below the procedure we will take for the increase in pricing this coming Saturday 14th at 1400 UTC.

 

As advised by email and by control panel today:

Further to our announcement on November 2nd that the registry is increasing its pricing, this announcement is to remind you that effective 14th January 2012, the new pricing for .COM and .NET domains will be made applicable.

 

If you have yet to make the necessary changes to your website and/or Control Panel, we ask that you get them updated as quickly as possible.

 

If you use the API, and complete all your billing through a third party application, please update those prices too if you need too.

 

We shall be increasing the Registration, Renewal and Transfer-In pricing for .COM and .NET domain names on January 14th, 2012 at 14:00 UTC, our prior announcement stated it would be 23:55 UTC which has now changed to 14:00 UTC, however the platform provider has stated a cross platform update will also happen at this time which is necessary to protect against any loss to you through pending orders (please see bullet points below)

Important Note:

  • If you have specific pricing assigned on the .COM and .NET tlds, we will be increasing it by $0.51 and $0.46 respecitvly.
  • All pending .COM and.NET Registration and Renewal orders that have not been paid for or executed will be deleted on the 14th. This is to ensure that you don’t incur any losses through pending orders.
  • Pending orders on Transfer-Ins will not be affected. However, if you need to delete these orders yourself, you can find it here:Control Panel > Customers > Billing > Pending Invoices and Debit Notes