AusRegistry, the .au registry operator have scheduled an outage for 15th September 2007.

The outage window is between 10:00:00 AEST - 22:00:00 AEST.

During this time the .au Registry will not be available to any registrars. The flow on effect is that we will not be able to create new domains, nor edit, delegate or renew existing .au domain names.

Also we will not be able to check availability of .au domain names via our web site or our http post API.

Our registrar platform will continue to operate normally for other domain names spaces (eg gTLD, nz, uk etc.. )

TPP Internet is proud to announce that we are a finalist of the prestigious ARN IT Industry Awards β€˜07 in the following category: Specialist Vendor of the Year. We would like to thank all our valued Reseller clients who nominated us and believe we deserve this award. The winner will be announced on September 26.

Today, your customers are faced with new challenges of working in a digital, online world. They need to enable employees, partners and customers with the right productivity tools in order to be successful. And perhaps the most important tool you can provide is business-class email.

A business-class e-mail solution can enable your customers to stay productively on track – at the job site, the main office, meeting with vendors or managing partners. It’s one of the ways you can out-compete your competitors.
Therefore, we have launched our new business-class e-mail solution TPP Hosted Exchange 2007, which includes shared folders that can be accessed from any Internet connection or mobile device, providing a complete document management capability such that employees are always working off the same page, wherever they work – at the office, at home, at a client site or on the road.

TPP Hosted Exchange 2007 is a service that guarantees no upfront investment or on-going maintenance and upgrade fees. Included is a Microsoft Outlook licence for every user to unleash the full messaging potential of business-class e-mail, at $179 of value!

Please visit www.microsoftexchange.com.au for more information.

We have completed our upgrade and services are now returning to normal.

During the upgrade we have spooled email between our mail servers to ensure that no customer email would be lost. For a number of hours we have our servers configured to allows customers to pick up mail from the original server, we will then be cutting over to the new mail configuration early on Monday morning.

The effect of this that new email being sent to some customers during the day on Sunday the 18th will not be immediately available for download.

We are upgrading our Hosting Infrastructure this weekend; between 6pm Saturday 18 August and 6am Sunday 19 August 2007. This upgrade will affect hosting services (including Footprint Hosting accounts) for some domain names hosted on TPP Internet’s virtual hosting infrastructure.

During the upgrade access to our hosting control panel will be temporarily suspended; all emails sent to email accounts hosted on our servers will be temporarily diverted to our secondary mail server, and delivered once the upgrade is complete.

There will be no affect on websites during this upgrade; website content will continue to be displayed on the Internet as per normal.

We are undertaking this upgrade to ensure that our clients have consistent access to the best quality hosting infrastructure and appreciate your patience and understanding during the upgrade.

Should you have any questions, please contact our technical support team via email techsupport@tppinternet.com, or phone 1300 665 491 during business hours.

We have launched a new System Status Website that allows our customers to view the state of our various systems.

Currently, the site shows the status of our Domain Name Registrar Platform, as well as our Microsoft Exchange service which will be launched soon.

Customers that use our Hosting or Domain Name services should bookmark this page and refer to it not only to see the current status but also for information on upcoming maintenance and any outage notices.

The URL for the service is http://status.tppinternet.com.au

We have updated our API to support a number of new pieces of functionality. The new 2.6 version is available as of Wednesday 8th August in both our production systems and our test systems.

Name Suggestion Tool
In this new version we have added a new tool that suggests meaningful alternative domain names.

For example, a search for food.com would also show results like:

1. bestfoodonline.net
2. bestfoodonline.org
3. bestmeal.net
4. caribbeanfood.org
5. choicefood.net
6. choicefood.org
7. cityfood.org
8. creativefood.org
9. fabulousfood.org
10. favoritefood.org

So, as can be seen, the tool is context sensitive and can greatly assist end users in choosing a new domain name that relates to their topic or business.

Initially the service is available for gTLD domain names only (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info), support for .au, .nz and others will follow in the next update to our API.

Orders Status
Until now, API users needed to submit an order (e.g. a registration) and then wait for an email response to confirm that the transaction was a success. With our upgraded API, connected systems can now poll our system via OrderStatus request and confirm the status of an order.

The system will continue to send the response codes per email as well, but the same information is now available via the API directly.

In a similar way, domain name transfers that are entered into our system can also be polled to find out the current status.

Backward Compatibility
The update is fully compatible with previous versions. Customers who have written code against the former API version can simply continue to use that code with the new version.

New Documentation
Version 2.6 of the API documentation is available from our web site.

General Information
TPP Internet’s HTTP Post API is an interface that allows our Reseller clients to connect directly to our ordering and registrar system. Using this tool, you are now able to perform simple tasks - like automated domain name availability checks - as well as processing orders, delegations, renewals and transactions on the domain names under your management.

For more detailed information view this page on our web site.