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New Canadian address

29 September 2016 04:26:12 +0000

Due to the ongoing incompetence at Canada Post and the constant threat of postal disruptions by strikes and lockouts there, we have decided to do what we should have done twenty years ago when we mistakenly thought that a Crown Corporation would be more stable than a private enterprise in providing mail receiving services. Our new Canadian head office mailing address is as follows:

NinerNet Communications Company
535-15216 North Bluff Road
White Rock BC  V4B 0A7

This is effective immediately. Our old address is theoretically valid until the end of 2016, but we know that some mail sent to that address has been returned as undeliverable in recent weeks.

Our apologies for this inconvenience. We do provide ways to pay your invoices online; see the payment link in any invoice or payment reminder email.

Stanbic account number change

20 September 2016 13:17:12 +0000

We have just sent out an email to our Zambian clients about the fact that Stanbic have suddenly changed our account number, with no notice whatsoever or any indication if the old account number will work for an overlap period. Since sending out the email a few minutes ago we’ve heard from one client, who is also unfortunate enough to be a Stanbic customer, that they have heard there will be a one-year overlap period during which the old account number can be used, but we have not been able to confirm this with Stanbic ourselves.

The point of this blog post is to confirm that the email you received from NinerNet is indeed authentic. Thank-you for your time.

Office hours

8 August 2016 20:45:51 +0000

NinerNet‘s offices will be closed from Monday 8 August and will re-open on Wednesday 17 August. Emergency support will continue to be available 24/7, but routine emails and enquiries will be dealt with on Wednesday 17 August. Thank-you.

Digital Matrixx customer notice

7 July 2016 00:46:15 +0000

It has come to our attention that customers of Digital Matrixx, formerly of Abbotsford, BC, appear to have been abandoned. If this describes your situation, NinerNet Communications may in some cases be able to help you.

Unfortunately it appears that the domains of many of Digital Matrixx’s customers were actually registered in the name of Digital Matrixx, rather than the names of their rightful owners. This was not necessarily the result of malice, but probably expediency and a lack of foresight or knowledge on the part of Digital Matrixx. (To compare, that would be like your real estate agent registering your new house in his or her name “because it’s easier.”) However, the result is that now the rightful owners of those domains have no control over them and cannot take the necessary action to get their domains back online again, or even renew them.

We do not have a list of customers or contact information for any of them, so if you are a former Digital Matrixx customer you need to take the initiative to contact us to see if we are in a position to be able to help you. (We do have a list of 179 domains that we may be able to assist with.) You can contact us at the same email address that Digital Matrixx used to use — info@thepostaloffice.com — or via one of the methods listed on our contact page. While we have not bought or acquired Digital Matrixx, we have acquired their former domain — thepostaloffice.com — through the normal domain expiry process. (The same applies to the domain they used to use for nameservers, securelinksserver.com.) Because many of the domains registered by Digital Matrixx use the info@thepostaloffice.com email address as an email contact, we can now in some cases help some rightful domain owners.

Please read the following information carefully.

What we can do for some former customers:

  • We can help some people regain control of their domain registrations.

What we cannot do for you:

  • We do not have any access to websites or email on any domains. In some cases we may be able to retrieve copies of websites from public caches, but this takes time and effort. We can determine the probability of success and give you a quote to make a copy based on our hourly rate. We can also refer you to web designers or make recommendations for economical options.

What we require:

  • To assist anyone to regain control of their domain we require scanned or high-resolution photographed copies of documentation to connect you to the domain. This could include at least two items from the following non-exhaustive list:
    • business licence (municipal),
    • business registration (federal or provincial),
    • an invoice from Digital Matrixx or the owner of the company, or
    • a cancelled cheque or some form of proof of payment to Digital Matrixx or the owner of the company.
  • If we are able to assist you to regain control of your domain, we will require you to transfer the registration to a new NinerNet domain registration account. (We have no way to give you access to the account where it is currently located.) This will require you to agree to a standard registration agreement, which you will be presented during the process to effect a registrar transfer of your domain. Following this transfer your domain registration period will be extended one further year (or more as described below) beyond its current expiry date, and the contact information will be changed from that of Digital Matrixx to the contact information of your choice.
  • In order to enter the contact information of your choice, you’ll need to send it to us: registrant company, registrant contact name, registrant mailing address, registrant email address, and registrant phone number. Per the registration agreement, this information all needs to be valid. Once we have that information from you we will send you an invoice based on our current domain renewal rates for the renewal period of your choice (up to ten years). On payment of the invoice we will initiate the registrar transfer, which will usually complete within a week of all of the steps being completed by you. Once that completes we will send you the log-in information for your domain registration account. Also per the registration agreement and as dictated by ICANN, you will not be able to transfer your domain registration to another registrar for 60 days; however, after that 60 days you are free to manage your domain as you see fit.
  • You can, however, set new nameservers immediately so that you can set up new hosting for your domain or redirect it to another domain. You are not obligated to host your website and/or email with NinerNet, but we’ve been in the hosting business for twenty years and seen companies like Digital Matrixx come and go. Our hosting rates are available on our website and we are very willing and able to answer your questions and give you advice on how to proceed.

We look forward to being able to assist you, as we have done already for some former Digital Matrixx customers.

Quarterly kwacha rate review, Q3 2016

1 July 2016 22:51:01 +0000

Based on the current value of the Zambian kwacha in US dollars and recent trends, we are lowering our retail kwacha prices effective today and until the next quarterly review by 4%.

Some sample rates:

  • webONE hosting plan (monthly): ZMW 172.50
  • mailONE hosting plan (monthly): ZMW 115.00
  • gTLD domain (annually): ZMW 218.50

Our new kwacha rates will be online within 24 hours.

Quarterly kwacha rate review, Q2 2016

1 April 2016 08:35:07 +0000

Based on the current value of the Zambian kwacha in US dollars and recent trends, we are lowering our retail kwacha prices effective today and until the next quarterly review by 11%.

Some sample rates:

  • webONE hosting plan (monthly): ZMW180.00
  • mailONE hosting plan (monthly): ZMW120.00
  • gTLD domain (annually): ZMW228.00

Our new kwacha rates will be online within 24 hours.

Domain news: Price increase on dot-uk domains, elimination of multi-year rates

19 January 2016 01:22:12 +0000

The dot-uk registry is raising the price of their domains and eliminating lower pricing when registering for two years at a time effective 1 March, and so we must too.

This means that the new annual price for dot-uk domains will increase from US$14.00 to US$17.00 per year on 1 March. Most of this increase is due to the elimination of the lower pricing on biennial renewals.

Due to low demand for multi-year registrations and renewals, we’re also taking this opportunity to eliminate our multi-year pricing that we have offered on most domains we sell. In order to make a meagre profit on a ten-year registration/renewal we have had to charge a high enough single-year price that when you whittle down the price to what we’d offer for ten years (the maximum allowed by most registries), we were possibly making mere pennies. Given that we have absorbed domain price increases in the past, we would have actually lost money on a ten-year registration at our posted prices on some top-level domains.

We’ll still sell multi-year registrations and renewals, but any discounts will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

If you have any questions, please let us know. Thanks for your business.

Christmas 2015 and New Year hours and wishes

23 December 2015 20:49:55 +0000

Time sure flies when you’re having fun. It’s hard to believe that another year is about to end, and a new one about to start.

We thank you, as we should do more often, for your custom in 2015. In 2016 we’ll be celebrating our 20th anniversary, and whether you’ve been a client with us since 1996 (as some of you have) or you only joined us this year, your business is appreciated every day. Thank-you. We look forward to continuing to earn your business next year and further into the future.

Over the Christmas and New Year break we’ll be taking a bit of a break ourselves. From 23 December to 3 January our offices will be closed. Servers and support emails will continue to be monitored 24/7 and any urgent matters will be attended to right away. Routine or administrative matters will be addressed on Monday the 4th.

We wish you and your colleagues, employees and families a merry Christmas (if you celebrate it), and all the best for the New Year.

Office hours

4 July 2015 08:59:55 +0000

NinerNet‘s offices will be closed from Friday, 3 July and will re-open on Friday, 10 July. Emergency support will continue to be available 24/7, but routine emails and enquiries will be dealt with on Friday, 10 July. Thank-you.

Office hours

23 April 2015 20:24:50 +0000

NinerNet‘s offices will be closed from Friday, 24 April and will re-open on Monday, 4 May. Emergency support will continue to be available 24/7, but routine emails and enquiries will be dealt with on Monday, 4 May. Thank-you.

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