With the new System Status tool launch (http://status.opensrs.com), we are replacing the maintenance window calendar on the legacy tool (http://Status.tucows.com). Instead, you can get a weekly digest of maintenance windows for OpenSRS, registries and our vendors on the Reseller Blog.

Here are the maintenance windows for November 17 – November 24, 2008:

.DE
The .DE Registry had a maintenance window on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 from 16:00- 17:00 UTC.

Your local time: http://tinyurl.com/6dq6cc to http://tinyurl.com/66z9qa
Duration: 1 hour
Service Impact: Domain provisioning and WHOIS will be unavailable. All provisioning jobs will be queued until the window is completed. Domains will continue to resolve normally.

.EU
The .EU Registry has a scheduled maintenance window on November 18: 17:00 UTC to November 19: 01:00 UTC.

Your Local time: http://tinyurl.com/66z9qa to http://tinyurl.com/6hqdkp
Duration: 8 hours
Service Impact: Domain provisioning and WHOIS will be unavailable. All provisioning jobs will be queued until the window is completed. Domains will continue to resolve normally. Customers who have enabled provisioning queuing will have their orders queued until this complete. Domains continue to resolve.

OpenSRS Domains
We are scheduling an OpenSRS Domain Provisioning and Management maintenance window on Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 for network firmware upgrades. It will run for 2 hours from 05:00 to 07:00 UTC.

Your local time: http://tinyurl.com/6xb2uz to http://tinyurl.com/6qopvj
Service Impact: During this window, provisioning and management using the OpenSRS Domains service will be intermittently unavailable. We are performing annual firmware upgrades on all our network devices. We will also use this window to perform maintenance on the storage infrastructure. Domain Ordering and Provisioning (RWI and API) will be periodically unavailable for intervals of 1-2 minutes. Parked Pages and Whois will experience 15 minutes of unavailability within the window. If Resellers have queuing enabled, changes will be processed once the the window is complete. Domains will continue to resolve. We do not anticipate needing the entire window. We are scheduling 2 hours as a precaution.

OpenSRS Email Service – Cluster A
We are scheduling an OpenSRS Email Cluster A maintenance window on Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 for network firmware upgrades. It will run for 4 hours from 06:00 to 10:00 UTC.

Your local time: http://tinyurl.com/59otww to http://tinyurl.com/5mbny5
Service Impact: During this window, OpenSRS Email Cluster A will be intermittently unavailable. We are performing annual firmware (IOS) upgrades on all our network devices. We will also use this window to perform additional non-disruptive maintenance on some storage components. The following services will be unavailable: Provisioning, IMAP, POP, SMTP, Webmail. All messages will be remotely queued for delivery once the window is complete. We do not anticipate needing the entire window. We are scheduling 4 hours as a precaution.

.COM/.NET
The .COM/.NET registry has a scheduled maintenance on Sunday, November 23, 2008 from 01:00 -01:45 UTC.

Your Local time: http://tinyurl.com/6druo7 to http://tinyurl.com/6c67by
Duration: 45 minutes
Service Impact: Domain provisioning and WHOIS will be unavailable. If you have elected for queuing orders, your provisioning jobs will be queued until the window is complete. Domains will continue to resolve normally.

We encourage you to sign up for System Status notifications via email, RSS or twitter. The new System Status tool (http://status.opensrs.com) will be fully launched on December 1, 2008.