[Resolved]: Issues Registering new UK Domain Names
Saturday, 26th May, 2018
20:56pm
We've been experiencing some issues today with registering new .UK domain names for clients. We have two accounts with domain providers and both are unable to register .UK Domains. The errors also make no sense - one provider is reporting all domains are not available and the other is throwing a random timeout error.
There are no reports of outages on Nominet Status Page at time of writing but clearly there is a problem. We've reached out to both domain partners for assistance. ENOM/OpenSRS have a status page indicating the issue but there is no resolution time yet.
https://enomstatus.com/ - look for the second announcement indicating an issue with UK, US and CA domains.
We have also tried to register a UK domain with two competitors and were unable to so we believe this is a widespread issue. We'll be reaching out to those clients whose domains are still pending and we do apologise. If anyone finds a provider that works we will of course issue a full and immediate refund on request but we will be checking this every 15 minutes throughout the evening and as soon as this is resolved the pending domains will be pushed through.
