A couple of solutions I can think of.
1. Since the anniversary date will never change, mirror the whois data and cache
it at the opensrs server end.
2. Process your orders at night.
Quoting greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I know im not the only RSP that is having .ca upgrades fail due to
>
> "unretriavable anniversary date">>not exact quote...... my list of
> these is now long support tells me cancel the order and redo ,the CIRA
> data base is overloaded thus the error....Yes I do understand everyone's
> frustration I have cancelled and reordered a dozen times on a couple and
> always the same error.....has anyone else found a better answer to fix
> this there must be one!!!!!! problemmmmmm...........the customers
> are going to be pissssed if someone else gets it after NOv. 1 and thats
> not far
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