2024-12-19 nz registrar news: support during holidays, IRS 9.0 OTE testing

Kia ora

Welcome to the final .nz registry update for 2024. Before we close down for a holiday break, we want to thank you for another wonderful year together. From the .nz team to your team — you are great partners to work with, and we appreciate your passion and support of the .nz namespace.

We wish you a lovely holiday season, and we are looking forward to working with you in 2025. Have a great summer, or winter, depending on the hemisphere, and please note a few important dates and reminders.

Kind regards

.nz team at InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa

.nz registry important dates

  • 13 Dec - 7 Jan: IRS change freeze window

  • 5 Dec - 15 Jan: IRS 9.0 OTE registrar testing window

  • 20 Dec - 6 Jan: InternetNZ office close down

  • 26 Jan: IRS 9.0 release into Production

Reminder to test IRS release 9.0 in OTE

We would like to remind and encourage registrars to perform testing for each new IRS release, as InternetNZ is not able to test registrar processes that are specific to your implementation. The change log for this release is now published on the Product Documentation website

Change freeze over the holidays

Our change freeze window for the holiday period this year is 13 December to 7 January. During this time, there will be no registry product releases or unplanned changes to our product infrastructure. Engineers will be on-call to address operational and security incidents with the existing infrastructure should they arise. The change freeze thaws on 7 January and we’ll be back to business as usual.

Holiday period registry support

Our .nz support team will be available all regular business days over the Christmas and New Year period via email at registry@internetnz.net.nz and phone at (+64) 4 931-6970 from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. NZDT.

Our call centre will cover after-hours and public holidays for emergency technical support at (+64) 4 496-4697. Please refer to our website for detailed after-hours support information.

Public holidays:

  • 25 December 2024

  • 26 December 2024

  • 1 January 2025

  • 2 January 2025

Kind regards | Ngā mihi,

.nz team