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Price Update – From July 2025
We're writing to let you know about changes to our pricing, which will take effect from July 2025. For many years, we've kept our hosting and email prices stable, even as the cost of providing secure, reliable infrastructure has risen. After a thorough review, we've...
Scheduled Server Migration & Temporary Outage Notification
A scheduled server migration that will affect websites hosted on our Omega server will occur this weekend. As part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring performance and long-term stability, we will be migrating all sites on this server to a new and upgraded...
Phishing Scam Targeting .Au Domain Registrants
auDA became aware this morning of a phishing scam targeting .au domain name holders (registrants) via email. The emails are being sent by a third party posing as an auDA employee. They request registrants click a link to confirm the contact details associated...
.Com Price increase – September 2023
Starting from September 1, 2023, the price for .com domain names will increase by 10%. Verisign, the registry for .COM, has announced that there will be no further price adjustments until 2026.
Accessing legacy accounts via billing and support system
Please note that hosting accounts with an asterisk (*) in the package name are located on our older servers in a different data centre to those without the asterisk. Unfortunately, this data centre has withdrawn its API access that integrates with the billing/admin...
SQL Update
The current SQL Database MariaDB will reach End of Life in May 2023. We are therefore scheduling an update to MariaDB 10.11 on 30 March 2023 at 3am UK Time. This process may result in a downtime of approximately 1 hour. Please let us know if you have any questions...
Removal of the Horde webmail application
The Horde webmail application has been removed in cPanel & WHM version 108 (at the time of writing we are on the latest stable release 106.0.13). All Horde email, contacts, and calendars will be automatically migrated to Roundcube. For more information, read our...
.Au Direct Domains
We wish to remind clients that the window of opportunity to register the matching .au Direct Domain Name for their existing .au domains is closing… and fast! If you have domain names in any other .au namespace (.com.au, .net.au or...
New domain expiry process and introduction of drop lists for .uk
As part of our changes to support the new .uk expiring domain process as announced on 2022-06-14, the below will come into effect on 2022-09-13.