Due to the PHP vulnerabilities that were announced today by the PHP foundation, our hosts are taking proactive steps. For those clients using our USA based hosting: The host has disabled control panel access to any and all servers.  It has made international news since PHP powers 70% of the internet websites.  https://www.reuters.com/business/php-programming-language-developers-issue-new-version-fixing-critical-2026-10-21/ The control panel vendors are feverishly working to update the PHP versions for their software and the hosts are awaiting a secure release of that.  Until they receive confirmation that there are updates flowing to servers, they have taken the proactive approach to disable control panel access across all servers that they operate.  If you cannot login to the control panel, it's because they have disabled access.  They will re-open access once the patches have been applied to the servers. For those clients hosted on Dreamscape Networks, this is...

The data centre has now successfully mitigated the DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack and has implemented enhanced DDoS protection across all hosted servers. This is the first time in the provider's 20-year history that they have experienced a DDoS attack of this scale. The size and complexity of the attack required extensive reconfiguration of their systems to restore full connectivity and implement additional DDOS protection. As a result, the issue took longer to resolve than a typical service disruption.  The provider will continue to closely monitor the network to ensure the new measures are operating effectively and to respond promptly should any further DDoS attacks occur. Unfortunately, DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly common and more powerful. Hosting providers worldwide are experiencing these attacks from time to time, which can result in website and connectivity issues while mitigation measures are implemented. If you are unfamiliar with DDoS attacks, we h...

The web host has announced that their provider is adding capacity in one of their datacenters and and there might be a period of  higher latency and or sub optimal routing.  Traffic should re-route automatically they are notifying this in case you notice any issues connecting to services during this time.

The New Zealand Domain Registrar will be increasing their .NZ domain pricing, as well as the price of some other international domain extensions from the 20th January 2026. We recommend clients renew their domains before then if they want to avoid the price increases. Most domain you can renew up to 10 years in advance. These price increases are beyond our control and are being increased on the wholesale level by the New Zealand Registrar directly to cover cost increases and improvements in infrastructure. We have no option but to pass these price increases onto the client. Please note that unlike many NZ domain name providers, we are 100% based in New Zealand and have been selling domain names since 2001, which is over 25 years. We are one of New Zealand's longest established Domain Name providers.   If you have autorenewals setup, your domain name will auto renew at the new higher prices.  You can also renew your domain for up to 10 years in advance at this lower price ...

We are aware of fake domain-renewal emails being sent to domain name registrants in New Zealand by third parties pretending to manage their domains. These emails are a scam. Please ignore and delete them, and do not open any attachments. To check your genuine renewal date or manage your domain at any time, you can log in to the NZ Domain Manager at  www.domainmanager.co.nz

We are aware of a global outage with Cloudflare with is affecting the internet all over the world. It is affecting the loading of websites and email etc. More information and updates can be found at  https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

The New Zealand Domain Name Commissioner's Office has announced a 22% increase in the wholesale price of domain names that end in the  .nz extension .  We anticipate that our domain registrar, Dreamscape Networks, will pass this price increase on to all registrants in the near future.

Domain registrar Dreamscape Networks has increased the price of most of their domain name registrations and renewals for the beginning of 2025. The new prices are reflected in the NZ Domain Manager at www.domainmanager.co.nz . All future domain renewals will be at the current prices as displayed in the Domain Manager. 

We have moved from a maximum billing cycle of 12 months, to a maximum 6 month billing cycle.  If you were previously billed for 12 months in advance, your next invoice will be for 6 months.  We are making this change due to a number of factors. This includes regular pricing hikes by our upstream providers and the weak New Zealand dollar. So we need to be able to adjust our pricing more regularly to take account of these things. 

Our upstream providers have released a new updated version of the NZ Domain Manager. This loads from our new NZ Domain Manager website at  www.domainmanager.co.nz . It is essentially a new more modern interface on top of the existing domain management system.  Please note that any previous emails you have received that contain renewal links will no longer contain valid links, so they won't work. So you will need to go to the new website at  www.domainmanager.co.nz  and log into your 'Account Manager' to renew or register any domains.