LogicBoxes today completed the addition of Google Authenticate to the OrderBox.
To enable this for your account, login to NEO >> Person Icon (top right corner) >> Your Account & Security and you will see it half way down in the middle.
Please set this up as soon as you can to protect the domains within your accounts.
Afilias is updating their pricing as of 1st January, we will be updating the pricing on 31st December 2019 at 2100 UTC.
| TLD | New Add / Renew or Transfer | New restore |
| archi | $51.95 | $98.00 |
| bet | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| bio | $ 51.95 | $98.00 |
| black | $ 40.95 | $98.00 |
| blue | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| info | $ 13.95- $ 15.50 | $89.00 |
| kim | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| mobi | $ 17.50- $ 18.50 | $75.00 |
| pet | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| pink | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| poker | $ 40.95 | $98.00 |
| pro | $ 17.95 | $65.00 |
| promo | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| red | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| shiksha | $ 13.99 | $89.00 |
| ski | $ 34.95 | $98.00 |
Nominet on the 13th January 2020 will be updating their pricing for .UK as well, this will be for all variants of .UK and the increase in price will be $0.20 per year. Therefore on the 12th of January at 2200 UTC we will increase the pricing on the paltform.
As previously advised :
Neustar the .BIZ registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal or transfer. This will be effective on 31st October 2019 at 2200 UTC.
Therefore the new prices per Tier are :
Tier 1 : $15.35
Tier 2 : $14.80
Tier 3 : $14.50
Tier 4 : $14.29
Tier 5 : $14.19
Restoration pricing will increase by $1.15 to $80.57 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.
The .NZ Registry has recently imposed some contractual obligations with respect to handling contact information associated with their domain names.
LB are making some changes in the registration and management of .NZ domains registered for users in the European Economic Area (EEA). If you are using the LogicBoxes API to sell .NZ domains, these changes will require you to modify your API implementation on or before September 30th, 2019.
We currently mask the contact information for .NZ domain names if the registrant or other contacts are EU data subjects. The .NZ Registry has mandated that we stop masking contact information in this manner since it violates Registry policies. We are thus compelled to share the contact information for all .NZ domains with the registry.
What will change :
Changes in API implementation :
The changes that need to be made in the management workflow for affected .NZ domains, which you must incorporate into your .NZ domain API implementation, can be viewed here.
When will the changes be made :
The changes described above will be deployed to production on September 30th, 2019. We request that you implement the API changes on or before this date, to ensure that your .NZ registrations are not affected. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please reach out to our support team or your account manager.
Nominet is releasing the unclaimed/unregistered 2nd level .UK domains on Monday 1st Jully 2019.
The platform will for this period of time (1st July to 5th July inclusive) will use the PDR-IN tag for registrations, this is because of the way it has been implemented. The domains can be ordered from 1400UTC by either the Supersite2 or the API. The domains can be fully managed from the platform as normal, and on renewal, the domain will automatically be transferred to the NETEARTHONE tag without the need of any intervention by you. On the 6th July, the registrations will go back to using NETEARTHONE tag.
The schedule is listed below :
All domains with rights that were not registered by the rights holder will be put into five batches in alphabetical order.?Each batch will be released at 14:00 BST (UTC+1) from 1st?July to 5th?July 2019.? All domains in a batch will become available at the same time (14.00 BST UTC+1).?Once the domain has become available during the release period it will remain available throughout the release period.
The release schedule is as follows:
Batch 1: Domains beginning 0-9, a-b?
Batch 2: Domains beginning c-f??
Batch 3: Domains beginning g-m?
Batch 4: Domains beginning n-s??
Batch 5: Domains beginning t-z??
Domains released in batch 1 (1st July) will become generally available through the standard .UK?EPP connection and WDM one week later, i.e. on 8th July at or after 14.00 BST (UTC).? Batch 2 on 9th July, batch 3 on?10th July etc?.
| We have been made aware by LogicBoxes (who we get .CLUB through) that the pricing is increasing on 1st July 2019 – there is not much notice on this and it is a registry increase. The new pricing will be $14.99 for Registration, Renewal and Transfer. Restoration is not changing. We will update the pricing on .CLUB on Sunday 30th June at 2100UTC. |
Neustar the .BIZ registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal or transfer. This will be effective on 31st October 2019 at 2200 UTC.
Therefore the new prices per Tier are :
Tier 1 : $15.35
Tier 2 : $14.80
Tier 3 : $14.50
Tier 4 : $14.29
Tier 5 : $14.19
Restoration pricing will increase by $1.15 to $80.57 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.
| This is to inform you that owing to some performance improvement upgrades, certain functions of the OrderBox platform will be undergoing maintenance on Sunday, March 17th. Here are more details on the scheduled maintenance: |
| Date: March 17, 2019 |
| Expected Maintenance Window: 60 minutes |
| Products Affected: Domains |
| Services Affected: All new domain registrations, domain lookups and domain transfers will fail during this maintenance window. Any domain renewals initiated during this time will be queued in the system and will be processed post the maintenance. |
| Though the maintenance window is of 60 minutes, we expect services to be affected for less than 30 minutes. Services should largely be online however, there could be intermittent issues. |
At the moment as this is written, the LB platform is under a DDoS attack.
It happened once before today around 0828 for 10 to 15 minutes – ill update this post when I know more.
Christmas and New Year opening hours for support 2018/2019
Support will be open the following hours over the holiday period in GMT:
| Christmas Eve | Monday | 24th December 2018 | 08:00 through 17:00 |
| Christmas Day | Tuesday | 25th December 2018 | 12:00 through 17:00 |
| Boxing Day | Wednesday | 26th December 2018 | 10:00 through 17:00 |
| New Years Eve | Monday | 31st December 2018 | 08:00 through 17:00 |
| New Years Day | Tuesday | 1st January 2019 | 12:00 through 17:00 |