Oryx Internet Services

15/04/2020

We have opened up our website filter service to South African homes. Block access to adult and malicious websites on your home WiFi network. This service will be available free of charge for the next 3 months, with no registration required. During this unprecedented time, we're doing our part to ass...

29/03/2020

Call To Action
In a bid to create more awareness around COVID-19 Government has called on all .za domain name holders that have an associated website to create a landing page with a visible link to https://www.sacoronavirus.co.za. For more details see section 5.1.4 of Regulation No. 43164 published on 26 March 2020.

22/08/2018

Service was restored to the affected server at 13h35 and all services are functioning normally.

22/08/2018

We are currently experiencing a problem with one of our hosting servers. Technicians in the data center are investigation and we will restore service as soon as possible.
Websites and email hosted on the affected server will be inaccessible during this time.

21/01/2016

Numerous reports have been made of network outages affecting both local and international connectivity.

Undersea cable operator Seacom has stated it is experiencing multiple critical outages on its terrestrial network across Egypt.

“All our international connectivity through Egypt has been affected since 14:06 GMT on the 21st January 2016,” said the company.

“Repair teams have been dispatched. Seacom continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide necessary updates.”

NAPAfrica, a layer 2 Internet Exchange (IX) point located within each Teraco data centre, reported a sharp drop in traffic across its South African IX points from around 16:00 on 21 January.

Multiple undersea cable outages and “large networks being offline” were also reported .

13/10/2015

We are of aware of ADSL outages in the Southern region (Cape Town / Port Elizabeth and surrounds). Engineers are investigating.

18/10/2013

Our telephone lines are still down. Unfortunately our voice provider is unable to provide us with a time to restoration. In the interim please use 042 296 0003 or 083 287 2851.

18/10/2013

We are currently experiencing a problem with our telephone lines.
As a temporary measure you may dial 042 296 0003 or 083 287 2851

16/09/2013

CO.ZA Registrar update.

We have just been appointed as an accredited registrar for co.za domains under the new EPP system.

This process involves assigning ORYX as the registrar of record and no longer the legacy Uniforum registrar.

As a result of this accreditation and the kickstart of the process, you will receive/have received a domain transfer request from the legacy Uniforum system.

This change is purely required to reflect ORYX as the accredited registrar of your .co.za domain/s.

You may safely ignore the ticket request as we will process those requests to reflect the required change.

Should you have any queries you are welcome to contact us for further clarification.

You can also verify that ORYX is an accredited registrar at https://www.registry.net.za/accredited_registrars.php

All issues and questions relating to the co.za EPP Registry Registrar System must be raised in the Contact/Support pages through the Registrar Panel. This is to ensure that our support department tracks and addresses all issues. Log in to the Registrar Panel and submit a support request online.

03/09/2013

Email and web outage

We are aware of a connectivity issue affecting one of our hosting servers.
Data center technicians are attending to the loss of connectivity.

Affected emails include .co.za .co.za .co.za

28/08/2013

DNS outage update.

A workaround for the DNS outage has been implemented.
A reboot of your modem/router should resolve the issue.

28/08/2013

DNS Outage.

We are aware of an Internet DNS outage that is causing problems with browsing and email for many users.

You may wish to add one of Google's public DNS servers to your configuration to assist with DNS lookups.

More infomation at:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Alternatively contact us to assist with the change to your computer configuration.

In most cases, the IP addresses used by your ISP's domain name servers are automatically set by your ISP via the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). To use Google Public DNS, you need to explicitly change the DNS settings in your operating system or device to use the Google Public DNS IP add...