The Road Ahead

To all of our customers and visitors, we'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

We hope you a wonderful and relaxing time over the festive period. Thank you for your custom and support throughout 2020 and we look forward to working with you again in 2021.

We are taking a small break today and tomorrow but we will be back to take support enquiries from Sunday 27th December.

We may perform some maintenance work on our services between Christmas and the New Year. As ever, advance notice will be posted on our website and social media feeds if there are planned service interruptions.

We will be performing some routine server maintenance from around 20:00 tonight (UK/GMT time). There may be a slight impairment of our services whilst this work is taking place.

As always and updates or changes will be posted here and on our Twitter feed.

We've made a few, minor changes to a couple of our legal documents. There have been no changes to our existing legal declarations and policies.

Cookies

We have removed references to a couple of now retired hosting servers and corrected a couple of typos with external links.

Read the updated cookies information

Free Software Licence

The software licence that applies to any free software or application we release has been published.

Read the Free Software Licence.

To continue to support registrants of .com and .net domains that may have been affected by the COVID-19 / CoronaVirus pandemic, the restore fee waiver for these TLDs has been extended for another 60 days until 1st August 2020 at 03:59:59 GMT/UTC.

Additionally, from the 1st June 2020, restore fees will also be waived on .tv, .cc and .name TLDs until 1st August 2020 at 03:59:59 GMT/UTC.

We have removed support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 from our servers with immediate effect (16:00, 26th March 2020). This has been done to enhance the security of our services and is accordance with best practices as outlined in IETF RFC 7525. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have known security issues and there are no fixes or patches available.

If you are using a certificate based on either of these protocols, you must update them with a TLS 1.2+ certificate immediately. If you are, or wish to be, PCI-DSS compliant, you should adopt TLS 1.2+.

Most mainstream web browsers will cease support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.2 in the first half of 2020. Approximate deadlines are:

• Microsoft IE & Edge - first half of 2020
• Mozilla Firefox - March 2020
• Safari/WebKit - March 2020
• Google Chrome - January 2020

Most web browsers will issue a security warning if you attempt to connect to a website using either TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1. To ensure you receive the best possible protection, we advise you to upgrade your web browser to the latest version. Most web browsers will do this automatically.

Let's Encrypt / SSLForFree Certificates

All free certificates generated through our hosting control panel since the beginning of March have been TLS 1.2+.