Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Jul 20, 2024 - 21:00 UTC
Scheduled
PIR has scheduled maintenance to the PIR Production
Environment: Production Date: August 20th, 2024 Maintenance Window: 21:00 - 23:00 UTC Expected Duration: 120 minutes During this time: EPP (epp.publicinterestregistry.org): Down Registrar Portal (https://registrar.publicinterestregistry.org/): Down WHOIS (whois.publicinterestregistry.org): Down RDAP (rdap.publicinterestregistry.org): Down DNS: Not Impacted Following the conclusion of the maintenance, the changes below can be expected: Domain Restore - Domain restore operation may be performed on a domain with serverUpdateProhibited status. Host Name Update - Updates to out-of-zone hosts will not be permitted when that host object is linked to a domain sponsored by another registrar in the registry. Registration Data Policy Phase 1 - OTE - Association of contact data to a new and existing domain name will be optional. Transfer Query - The response will contain the details for the most recent transfer operation and the transfer status of that most recent transfer operation. Enhancement to Domain Check Query - A single DomainCheck command may include up to 20 domains. A list of these changes can also be found under the Documents section of the registrar portal.
Please contact PIR Technical Support at techsupport@pir.org with any questions or concerns you may have.
Release Notes
The PIR August 2024 Release Notes below contain information on the updates to the OT&E and Production environments that are included in this maintenance. Please refer to the Documents > Registry Notifications section in the Registrar Portal for more information on previous releases.
Updates Domain Restore will be permitted on domains with serverUpdateProhibited status associated Affected Users All Registrars Details Registrars will be able to perform a restore operation on a domain name even if the name has a serverUpdateProhibited status. A domain restore operation must continue to be performed in alignment with RFC 3915. Updates EPP Host Name Update Affected Users All Registrars Details After the maintenance, updates to out-of-zone hosts will not be permitted when that host object is linked to a domain sponsored by another registrar in the registry. Attempts to update such linked hosts will not be processed and will result in an EPP error code 2305. This is in alignment with section 3.2.5 of RFC 5732. Updates Domain Create/Domain Update - OT&E environment only Affected Users All Registrars Details In line with Phase 1 of the Registration Data Policy, contact objects of all types will become optional for all PIR TLDs (.charity, .foundation, .gives, .ngo, .ong, .org, .xn--c1avg, .xn--i1b6b1a6a2e, .xn--nqv7f, .xn--nqv7fs00ema) as part of this release in the OTE environment.
The PIR registry instance will accept new registrations and transfers in the OT&E environment with either the current data set or the new minimum data set.
For more information regarding this change please see the Registration Data Policy Guide which is available in the Documents Section of the Registrar Portal. Updates Transfer Query Affected Users All Registrars Details The transfer query command will return responses for a domain if a transfer operation has been completed previously. The response will now contain the details of the most recent transfer operation along with any of the following transfer statuses per RFC 5731.
The response will now contain the details of the most recent transfer operation along with any of the following transfer statuses per RFC 5731. pending clientApproved clientCancelled clientRejected serverApproved Note that the formal definitions for these status values appear in Section 4.2 of RFC 5730. Updates EPP Domain Check Query Affected Users All Registrars Details Currently, the registry system accepts 5 domains in a single Domain Check command. After the maintenance, the registry will accept a maximum of 20 domains in a single Domain Check command. Submitting more than 20 domains in a single Domain Check command will result in an error.
Posted Jul 19, 2024 - 06:25 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Domain Services (Other gTLDs).