Remaining CO.ZA issues to be resolved this weekend
Over the last week numerous IT professionals were frustrated by the downtime of some of the systems from Uniforum SA. Since last weekend many Internet users and webmasters have complained that the co.za registration engine and various related web services are down.
According to Mark Elkins, one of the architects of the CO.ZA system and a director of UniForum SA, the downtime was due to a hardware failure which affected several CO.ZA systems.
Elkins said the CO.ZA team has been working hard to rebuild the hardware and to reinstate the CO.ZA registration and payment systems: “The rebuild and the reinstatement of the affected systems, has been made all the more challenging due to the enormous body of data, which includes both current and historic records, associated with the CO.ZA system.”
Good news is that UniForum SA today said that they are confident that all remaining problems with the .CO.ZA systems will be resolved this weekend.
“Our systems started processing applications for domain updates and registrations since Thursday,” said Calvin Browne, UniForum SA director. “The good news is that this backlog has been totally cleared this morning (9 April) and only two areas are still affected, the processing of domain name payments and credit card transactions are still being addressed.”
“The unfortunate result of this is that people who have domain names with outstanding payments, are still currently unable to update their registration details,” said Mr Browne.
UniForum SA Chair Theo Kramer promised the South African Internet community that all CO.ZA services will be restored by the end of the weekend.
“The public and our stakeholders can be assured that we are doing everything within our ability to ensure that a repeat of this situation is avoided,” Kramer concluded.
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