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.CC/.TV Unavailability Notice: December 4, 2009
Due to the scheduled maintenance at the .CC/.TV Registry, the VAIOWEB .CC/.TV Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:
Maintenance Window
Date – December 4, 2009
Time: 0100 hrs – 0300 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 2 Hours
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live interface.
This...
CentralNic Unavailability Notice : December 01, 2009
The VAIOWEB CentralNic Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:
Maintenance Window
Date: December 01, 2009
Time: 04:00 hrs – 05:00 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Whois, Management on the Live interface.
This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which...
CentralNic Unavailability Notice : November 26, 2009
The VAIOWEB CentralNic Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:
Maintenance Window
Date: November 26, 2009
Time: 0400 hrs – 0600 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 2 hours
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Whois, Management on the Live interface.
This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which...
CentralNic Unavailability Notice : November 22, 2009
The VAIOWEB CentralNic Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:
Maintenance Window
Date: November 22, 2009
Time: 0800 hrs – 0900 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Whois, Management on the Live interface.
This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which...
.MN/.BZ Unavailability Notice: November 21, 2009
Due to the scheduled maintenance at the .MN/.BZ Registry, the VAIOWEB .MN/.BZ Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:
Maintenance Window
Date – November 21, 2009
Time: 15:00 hrs – 19:00 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 4 hours
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Whois, Management on the Live interface.
This...
MYSQL upgrade on Linux hosting servers
Please be informed, two of our Linux hosting servers are planned to undergo a short downtime, to upgrade the MYSQL versions on each. Both the servers will be upgraded to MYSQL – 5.0.84. Soon, we shall have the same updated on the other Linux hosting servers too.
Schedule: Nov 23, 2009 – 0400 Hrs IST | Nov 22, 2009 – 2230 Hrs GMT.
Expected downtime: 2 Hrs
During the maintenance:
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Deprecating PHP functions
Keeping up with our promise of providing you with the safest hosting environment, we have to make a few changes to our PHP installation on our Linux Hosting Servers. We will be disabling a few PHP functions that allow users to execute system commands on the servers that disclose system information in a shared hosting environment. These functions are sparingly required by clients and are more of a security...
.MOBI – 67% Off!
From the 12th of November at 12:30 UTC, .MOBI Domains will be available for just 6.00 EUR for the first three years of Registration! This 67% discount is the best price in the market for .MOBI Domains so make sure to cash in on it before 30th December, 2009.
Promo Details:
This Promo is applicable to the first three years of Registration only.
Renewals and Transfer-Ins will not attract this Promo...
Custom DLL Deprecation
The Custom DLL feature on our Windows Hosting Service will be deprecated on the 17th of November, 2009. On analyzing the Windows Hosting Product, it was found that the Custom DLL feature poses a security threat and could affect the stability of our services.
Impact: Since the usage of the Custom DLL feature across our platform is extremely minimal (less than 1%), there will not be a grave technical...
Changes to .COM & .NET Domain Secrets
The .COM and .NET Registry recently announced that they will be changing their Domain Secret implementation on the 15th of November, 2009. As per the new rules a Domain Secret must be 8-32 characters long and contain at least one number, one letter and one special character.
There will be no impact on existing Domain Names; they can be Transferred with the current Domain Secret itself.
FREE! with EVERY...


