Connections to COM/NET/TV/CC central registries Offline

Our connections to the COM, NET, TV, and CC central registries is currently unstable at the moment. This problem is preventing us from registering and making any changes to all COM, NET, TV, and CC domains. This includes moving domains between Dynadot accounts and initiating transfers to or from Dynadot.

We are currently looking into this issue and hope to have it resolved in the next few hours. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.

Update - December 10, 2009 3:26pm:
This problem has been resolved. All orders in Problem status have been fixed. If you are still experiencing issues, please email us directly. Thank you.

Warning to Dynadot Customers

Someone is sending emails to Dynadot customers trying to get our customers to go to a website and download an .EXE file. These emails are not from Dynadot and we encourage you to forward the emails to us and then delete the email.

The text of the email is as follows:

Dear user of the dynadot.com mailing service! We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (tena@dynadot.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://dynadot.com/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=tena@dynadot.com&from=dynadot.com&fromname=tena Best regards, dynadot.com Technical Support.

Order Processing Issue

From 6:30pm yesterday to 8:42am today, there was a bug in our system which prevented orders from being fully processed. We have fixed this issue, so all orders should be processing normally. I apologize for any problems caused by this.

If you are still experiencing problems, please contact us directly.

$8.99 $8.75 .COM/.NET Domains

We are selling .COM/.NET domains for just $8.99 $8.75! Register your very own .COM or .NET domain for less than $9!

Transfers and renewals do not qualify for this offer. This sale only applies to the first year of any new .COM/.NET domain registration. Additional years will be at the normal price of $9.25 per year. This special will end November 30, 2009 23:59 EST.

Update - October 17, 2009 6:06pm:
We have just lowered the sales price from $8.99 to $8.75! A 50-cent discount off the normal price!

Main server was down from 3pm to 8pm.

Main server was down from 3pm to 8pm. We are still investigating the cause. Server is back up.

DNS, forwarding, and webhosting were not affected.

Dynadot Staff

$4.99 $2.99 IN Domains!

We are kicking off our launch of .IN with a blowout sale! We are selling .IN for just $4.99 on the first year of registration! ($3.99 for bulk, $3.75 for super bulk.)

Any additional years for 2nd level domains (example: yourdomain.in) will cost $14.99 per year. ($13.99 for bulk, $13.75 for super bulk.) Additional years for 3rd level domains (example: yourdomain.co.in) will cost $9.25 per year. ($7.75 for bulk, $7.50 for super bulk.)

This offer does not apply to renewals or transfers. This sale will end September 30, 2009 23:59 UTC.

UPDATE - September 30, 2009 11:43am:
This offer has been extended to October 31, 2009 23:59 UTC.

UPDATE - October 30, 2009 2:29pm:
This sale has been extended again to January 31, 2010 23:59 UTC.

UPDATE - November 18, 2009 11:38am:
We decided to push things a bit further and lowered the sales price for new .IN domains to $2.99! ($1.99 for bulk, $1.75 for super bulk) Get your own .IN domain for less than $3!

UPDATE - January 15, 2010 3:37pm:
This sale has been extended to March 31, 2010 23:59 UTC!

Server Down

We are experiencing technical difficulties and are working to resolve them.

Edit: 2:15pm The server is back online. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.

Auction System Change

We have received several complaints about users who are shill bidding in our expired auctions. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated. Effective immediately, if an auction order is not paid, our system will automatically ban the user from participating in any future auctions.

Please remember that if you submit a bid and you win the expired auction, you are expected to pay for the domain you won. This applies to all auction orders.

Auction orders that have already been cancelled before this change was implemented will not be penalized.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Forwarding Servers Slow Today

Our forwarding & stealth forwarding servers were very slow today. It looks like a denial of service attack. We have it back to normal now. Sorry for the problems.

$4.99 EU Domains!

We are selling new EU domain registrations for just $4.99! This is a discount of $5 for each new registration!

Renewals, transfers, or trades are at the regular price of $9.99. Get your own EU domain before this offer ends on August 31, 2009!

Additional Maintanence Today

We still need to perform additional maintenance on the Parking and API servers. One of our techs should be at the data center shortly. The maintenance shouldn't take longer than an hour.

[Update: 9:20 AM PDT] The maintenance has been completed.

API/Forwarding/Parking System Maintenance Notice

Tomorrow, July 16, 2009, between 8:00am and 12:00pm, we will be performing some server maintenance on the following systems:

Domain forwarding and parking
Email forwarding
API

There may be some intermittent downtime during that time. Sorry for the short notice.

$21.99 TV Domains

We are currently selling .TV domains for just $21.99 (a $13 discount!) on the first year of registration! ($19.99 for bulk, $18.99 for super bulk.)

.tv is a top-level domain, just like .com or .net. But what it says about you is entirely different. Like .org or .edu, .tv is a statement about who you are. When users see a .tv address, they know they're accessing a destination that's alive, active and compelling. (Read more.)

This offer does not apply to renewals or transfers. This special will end on July 31, 2009.

UPDATE - July 31, 2009 3:46pm:
This $21.99 TV domain sale has been extended to August 31, 2009!

UPDATE - August 28, 2009 3:23pm:
This sale has been extended again to September 30, 2009!

UPDATE - September 30, 2009 11:41am:
This sale has been extended once more to December 31, 2009 23:59 EST!

dynadot.com Slowdown

At 2:05pm Pacific Time, we experienced an unexpected spike of traffic on our main server. We suspect this is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack and are currently taking action to reduce its effect. Our website at dynadot.com may respond a little more slowly than usual due to this DoS attack.

$4.99 US Domains!

Dynadot is having a .US Summer Sale! From now to July 31, 2009, we are selling US domains for $4.99 on the first year of registration! ($3.99 for bulk, $3.75 for super bulk.) This sale only applies to new US domain name registrations. Renewals or transfers are at the regular price of $7.99 ($6.99 for bulk, $6.75 for super bulk).

This sale ends on July 31, 2009, so register your US domain today!

Web Hosting Server Downtime

Our web hosting server was offline from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Also, we had a small issue with our web hosting server which was unable to receive email. This issue has been fixed and you should be receiving all the emails that were sent to you in the past few days.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this downtime.

BIZ Price Increase Starting On June 1, 2009

NeuStar, the central registry for BIZ domains will be raising their prices starting on June 1, 2009. Due to this price increase, we are forced to raise our prices as well.

Starting on June 1, the new BIZ price will be $9.25 per year for all BIZ registrations, renewals, and transfers. Register (or renew) your BIZ domains before June 1 to take advantage of our low prices now!

Parking Server Downtime March 28

Late Saturday night the parking server went down for a few hours. Parking, domain forwarding, and domain stealth forwarding were affected.

Email forwarding, and the main site dynadot.com were not affected.

Downtime - Monday 23

2:40 PM PDT

Our main site is down right now.
We are contacting our Web Host to see what the issue is.

[Update: 3:00 PM PDT] Our main website is back online now.

Upcoming Grace Deletion Policy Change

Starting on April 1, 2009, our Grace Deletion Policy will change due to ICANN's Add Grace Period Limits Policy announcement back in December 17, 2008. You can read ICANN's announcement here:

Advisory: Add Grace Period Limits Policy
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-17dec08-en.htm

Only generic TLDs are affected by this policy:

- COM, NET, ORG, INFO, and NAME will start enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on April 1.
- ASIA and MOBI have delayed their adoption of ICANN's AGP Limits Policy until May 1, 2009.
- BIZ will not be changing their current grace deletion policy since they have already implemented ICANN's AGP Limits Policy last year.
- TEL will be enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on March 24, 2009 (General Availability).

Each TLD affected by this policy will be restricted to the following:

- The deletion rate will be limited to 10% of all new domain registrations for that TLD. (The 10% limit applies to our whole system.) Therefore, we cannot always guarantee a grace deletion.

- The deletion fee will be increased from $0.20 to $1.00.

Please note that we may opt to increase the deletion fee further depending on demand. A list of the current deletion fees will be shown on our Grace Deletions page:

Grace Deletions
http://www.dynadot.com/domain/grace_deletion.html

If you want to be able to grace delete your domains under the old Grace Deletion Policy, please submit your grace deletions before March 30, 2009 5pm Pacific Daylight Time. We cannot guarantee that your domains will be deleted with the old Grace Deletion Policy after this date.

If you have any questions about these changes, please let us know either through email or on our forums at Dynadot.com.