As you may be aware, the .Org Registry will be transferring from Verisign to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) over the weekend of
January 25-26, 2003. While the majority of the changes will not impact your current domain registrations, there are some issues of which you should be aware.
**The Verisign Registry will close for registry maintenance at
9AM EST Saturday, January 25, 2003. No registrations, renewals,
or modifications will be available for .Com, .Net, and .Org at this time.
**The Verisign Registry will reopen at 4PM EST Saturday, January 25, 2003 for registrations, renewals, modifications of .Com and .Net domain extensions.
**The Public Interest Registry will open for new .Org registrations at
6PM EST Sunday, January 26, 2003. At this time, only new registrations will be available. Modifications, renewals, and transfers will be available at 6PM EST Tuesday, January, 28, 2003.
**For .Org transfers that are currently in process, a five day extension will be added to account for this transition period.
**PIR assures us that there will be no downtime for any currently live .org websites.
**Pricing and processing will remain the same.