Mail servers getting an update. Registrations by e-mail to the standard address may bounce for a few hours. Registrations may be sent to support at sevik period com for the time being.

The GoDaddy outage is affecting the Domain Services section of Sevik. All other services however are operating OK. NRS-Online does not rely on GoDaddy for DNS so there should be no interruptions in handling registrations.

An extensive backup and mirroring of online data will take place starting at SAT AUG 18 1:00am PST. Then server software will be updated. Access may be limited for approximately one to two hours from the start time.

We are preparing to move to a new system that has taken a considerable amount of time to develop. More news will come shortly.

NRS-ONLINE Servers being rebooted

Rackspace is migrating numerous servers as part of an upgrade so we are rebooting all of our servers now before the deadline for migrating.

Access to NRS and Sevik systems will be interrupted during the period 3:00am - 3:15am PST MAR 13 2012.

More TSA crooks at work...

TSA agent steals $5k

Basically, the TSA crook stole $5k in cash from a passenger. The money was in a jacket that was in the process of going through the X-Ray machine. At some point, I'll gather up all the links to these sorts of stories...

GoDaddy Transfers

Ran into a hiccup with a GoDaddy domain transfer today. GoDaddy said the domain was available for transfer and took money, and issued authorization codes for the transfer...only to have the transfer rejected. The reason being that a phone number in the domain record changed a week ago, so ICANN policy, according to GoDaddy, is to reject transfers for SIXTY DAYS with no ability to resolve the problem earlier. I'm not so sure I believe GoDaddy, but that's what happened.

More importantly, I sent an e-mail to GoDaddy's legal asking for a reimbursement of roughly $12 in costs associated with this transaction (or the equivalent in credits to be used at GoDaddy). Let's see what happens. It was quite irritating I have to say, so I do have a full mind to go to small claims if GoDaddy doesn't want to own up to their role in this matter !!!

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