Grizzles are emerging on social media after a period of "maintenance" for several government websites has extended from a brief lunchtime downtime to hours.
A spokesman for MBIE, which is responsible for the sites involved, told the Herald, "There is a service outage today affecting a number of MBIE business registry platform search functions, including the Companies Register, Financial Service Providers Register, Disclose Register, NZBN Register, and IPONZ public searches.
"The outage is a technical problem, and is not a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
"MBIE has identified a connectivity problem which the site vendors are currently working to resolve."