[registrars] Problems with Afilias Registry?

[Jens-Uwe Gaspar]

Patricio Valdes wrote:
> Anyone else having problems connecting to the Afilias .info Registry?
> 
> We’ve been having problems since last weekend and they have been saying 
> we are the problem. Now, today we can’t even establish a connection and 
> they are not responding to emails.

The cause for this may be the following, announced by Afilias:

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Subject: [Registrars] .INFO Registry System - Server Certificate Upgrade 
[STARTED] [27 May 2005, 21:00 - 21:15 UTC]
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:00:02 -0400
From: Afilias Technical Support <techsupport at afilias.net>
To: registrars at afilias.net

Registrars,

The .INFO Registry scheduled maintenance for 27 May 2005 has begun as of
21:00 UTC.

During this period, we will be upgrading the server certificates of the
.INFO registry production environment. During the upgrade, you may
expect the following:

SRS: Available with connection disruption
Web Based Administrative Interface: Available with connection disruption
DNS: Available
WHOIS: Available
OT&E: Available


If you should have any questions, please contact Technical Support.

Sincerely,

Afilias Technical Support
<techsupport at afilias.net>
+1.416.646.3306
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> 
> Anyone else have a problem or just us?
> 
>  
> 
> Patricio Valdes
> 
> Parava Networks
> 

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