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IEDR Lose Google.ie?

October 9, 2012 by Michele Neylon

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This could prove to be quite embarrassing.

It looks like IEDR have allowed the nameservers for the domain google.ie to be updated to point to a 3rd party and away from Google. Effectively this means that google.ie and any services that rely on it are currently not working.

Here’s the current whois record for Google.ie. Note the rather odd nameservers:

 whois google.ie

% Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96
% Do not remove this notice

domain:       google.ie
descr:        Google, Inc
descr:        Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company)
descr:        Registered Trade Mark Name
admin-c:      KR59-IEDR
tech-c:       CCA7-IEDR
registration: 21-March-2002
renewal:      21-March-2013
status:       Active
nserver:      ns1.farahatz.net  
nserver:      ns2.farahatz.net  
source:       IEDR

person:       Kulpreet Rana
nic-hdl:      KR59-IEDR
source:       IEDR

person:       eMarkmonitor Inc
nic-hdl:      CCA7-IEDR
source:       IEDR

At the moment, for example, if you are an Irish internet user attempting to access Google the search engine will try to automatically push you to the .ie domain. However that is no longer online or reachable.

You can force your browser to go to the .com, but some Windows users I’ve spoken to have reported issues.

So who is at fault here?

IEDR? Google or Mark Monitor?

UPDATE: More on the story – with more details – over on technology.ie

Related articles
  • IEDR Suffers Major Outage (internetnews.me)
  • IEDR Data Dump (internetnews.me)
  • IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening (internetnews.me)
  • Google.ie and Yahoo.ie unavailable after “unauthorised change” to nameservers (sociable.co)

Filed Under: google, iedr, registries, security Tagged With: Domain name, google, Google search, IE Domain Registry, iedr, Search Engines, Searching, whois, Windows

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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