Reading the heading you may say “what?” and that is okay, it is not a process that will really affect your life or business in any way except for a couple of emails that you may receive, which you can safely ignore.

In a nutshell, Uniforum (the South African .co.za registry) is moving from one system of domain registration (legacy) to another (EPP – Extensible Provisioning Protocol). This move is in keeping with international standards which use an EPP code to register and transfer domains.

In the past, anyone that knew how to register a domain through Uniforum could. Now all registrations and transfers are handled through accredited registrars.

So how does this affect you?

In short, it doesn’t. You may receive an email saying that your domain is on hold for legacy transfer. You can safely ignore it, all the hard work is done on our side, you are simply receiving the email because you are listed as the domain owner and so are cc-ed in to all communication between the registrars and us.

An example of the email you may receive is

MAGIC C00KIE:23517:61271d0962082:Accept Deny:ldtbt.co.za:
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Delete the word 'Accept'
or the word 'Deny' ONLY!
DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE
ON THIS LINE!!!
The domain "ldtbt.co.za" is in the pending queue for a Legacy Transfer.
This was requested by "admin@newregistrar.co.za". The original request was posted
at Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:57:01 +0200 (SAST) and queued in pending at Wed Jan 16 07:57:04 SAST 2013.

To allow this to proceed – auto-reply to this e-mail quoting the magic
cookie line at the top of the message, …after removing either the
word “Deny” or “Accept” – according to how you want to vote for
the Change.
(Auto-Reply means “reply to sender” – which is “ticketman@co.za”.)

How it works, The application will wait for 24 hours. After this time,
if there is at least one Accept and no Deny’s, the request will proceed.
Anything else will stop the request, eg one Deny – or no Accepts..

Please note that once the domain is transferred away from the legacy
registrar (UniForum) it cannot be transferred back.

Copies of this e-mail have been sent to:-
soa@ldtbt.co.za, billing@ldtbt.co.za, owner@ldtbt.co.za, admin@ldtbt.co.za, tech@ldtbt.co.za

support@co.za – Support at the COZA Office

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Request looks like……

Sender: admin@newregistrar.co.za
Domain: ldtbt.co.za
Action: T
Registrar: REGISTRAR NAME
Company: Your Company Name (Pty) Ltd
Postal: 1 Registrant Avenue, Registrant Park 9999
Street: 1 Registrant Avenue, Registrant Park 9999
Payment: 0.00 (I)
Bill/Acct: I
MailTo: billing@ldtbt.co.za
Vat No:

Administrative Info
Contact: Admin, Admin (Mr)
Company: Private Company (Pty) Ltd
Postal: 1 Registrant Avenue, Registrant Park 9999
Phone: +27999999999
Fax:
E-Mail: admin@ldtbt.co.za

Technical Info
Contact: Technical, Technical (Mr)
Company: Private Company (Pty) Ltd
Postal: 1 Registrant Avenue, Registrant Park 9999
Phone: +27999999999
Fax:
E-Mail: tech@ldtbt.co.za

Nameservers Records – etc

Primary Server : ns1.nameservers.com
Secondary 1 : ns2.nameservers.com

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UniForum South Africa
Co.Za Domain Administrators
For Support: http://www.coza.net.za or e-mail support@co.za
Telephone: +27 11 314 0077 Fax: +27 11 314 0088

We will respond, accepting the ticket, and just like that your domain will be updated. There will be no downtime for your website or your emails, there will be no extra fees. Everything will carry on as normal.

If you have any questions about the move or your domain, please contact us and we will get back to you