At 8.00am on Tuesday 9 December 2008 we will have a systems outage lasting for about 1 hour when we will be deploying software upgrades. During this time Online Service, EPP, whois and DAC will be unavailable. The Automaton will not process email requests, but they will be received and queued for processing when it restarts. All other Nominet systems will continue to work as normal during this period.