Domains.co.za Status

Important Notice: Beware of Phishing scam

Identified - We have been made aware of a phishing scam currently circulating, which falsely claims to be from our company. The fraudulent message asks users to update their card details.

Do not click on any links or provide any personal information in response to such messages.

Our company will never ask you to update your card details through unsolicited emails or messages.
We will only ever provide a link that takes you to your account login to update these details.

For any questions or concerns, please contact our billing or support team.
Apr 09, 2025 - 11:21 SAST

Network Infrastructure Operational

Web Hosting Operational

WordPress Hosting Operational

Email Only Hosting Degraded Performance

Email Filtering Services Operational

Site Builder Services Operational

Cloud Infrastructure Operational

Hosted PBX Operational

VPS Hosting Operational

Reseller Hosting Operational

Domains API & Reseller Panel Operational

Domains Website Operational

Website Operational

Payment Gateways Operational

External Applications Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Past Incidents

May 3, 2026

No incidents reported today.

May 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 30, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 29, 2026

Critical Vulnerability with cPanel & WHM Login Authentication

Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Apr 29, 14:22 SAST

Monitoring - cPanel has released a patch for the recently identified authentication vulnerability, and we have applied it to all shared hosting servers and managed VPS environments. WHM, cPanel, and Webmail ports are now fully accessible on these systems.

Please note that these ports remain temporarily restricted on unmanaged Linux VPS servers. If your VPS is affected, a manual update may be required. You can follow the official cPanel guide here:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/40073787579671-Critical-Vulnerability-with-cPanel-WHM-Login-Authentication

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.
Apr 29, 00:34 SAST

Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Apr 28, 22:24 SAST

Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Apr 28, 22:07 SAST

Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Apr 28, 21:20 SAST

Identified - We are aware of a critical security vulnerability affecting cPanel/WHM login authentication method, as outlined in the official cPanel link below:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/40073787579671-Critical-Vulnerability-with-cPanel-WHM-Login-Authentication

Direct access to cPanel (port 2083), WHM (port 2087) and webmail (port 2096) will be unavailable from public networks until the exploit has been patched.

Services and websites remain fully operational.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as necessary.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Apr 28, 21:15 SAST

Mail issues on hosting server cp60.domains.co.za and cp61.domains.co.za

Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Apr 29, 14:21 SAST

Investigating - We are currently aware of the mail related issues on cp60.domains.co.za and cp61.domains.co.za

The issue has appeared after the recent update from cPanel. They are currently logged into the server and investigating the issue.

We will post updates as soon as possible.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Apr 29, 08:24 SAST

Apr 28, 2026

Apr 27, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 26, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 25, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 24, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 23, 2026

Shared Hosting Maintenance

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Apr 23, 00:13 SAST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 22, 21:00 SAST

Scheduled - Scheduled hardware maintenance will be conducted during the defined maintenance window. During this period, servers will undergo rolling downtime, with individual servers being temporarily unavailable for approximately 10–15 minutes at a time. This approach is designed to minimize overall impact, but brief service interruptions may be experienced. No user action is required, and services will automatically resume once maintenance on each server is complete.

Servers Affected on the 22nd of April:

cp68.domains.co.za
cp69.domains.co.za
cp70.domains.co.za
cp71.domains.co.za
cp72.domains.co.za
rs62.cphost.co.za
rs63.cphost.co.za
wp27.domains.co.za
Apr 20, 12:40 SAST

Apr 22, 2026

Shared Hosting Maintenance

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Apr 22, 00:30 SAST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 21, 21:00 SAST

Scheduled - Scheduled hardware maintenance will be conducted during the defined maintenance window. During this period, servers will undergo rolling downtime, with individual servers being temporarily unavailable for approximately 10–15 minutes at a time. This approach is designed to minimize overall impact, but brief service interruptions may be experienced. No user action is required, and services will automatically resume once maintenance on each server is complete.

Servers Affected on the 21st of April:

- cp64.domains.co.za
- cp65.domains.co.za
- cp66.domains.co.za
- cp67.domains.co.za
- wp23.domains.co.za
- wp24.domains.co.za
- wp25.domains.co.za
- wp26.domains.co.za
Apr 20, 12:39 SAST

Apr 21, 2026

Apr 20, 2026

Hosting server - wp22.domains.co.za down

Resolved - All services on wp22.domains.co.za have been restored.

The root cause of the issue has been identified, and corrective measures have been implemented to prevent a recurrence. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.
Apr 20, 11:10 SAST

Investigating - We are currently investigating an outage affecting the shared hosting server wp22.domains.co.za.

Our technicians are on-site and actively working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
Apr 20, 10:32 SAST

Apr 19, 2026

No incidents reported.