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Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute

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Several months ago Eircom, one of Ireland's largest ISPs,  launched a fibre broadband product under the moniker of "eFibre". For some reason, however, they hadn't registered the corresponding domain name. One of their competitors Magnet had and setup a very simple site:   I'm not sure how many people noticed, though I did see a tweet about it at the … [Read more...] about Efibre.ie Transferred to Eircom in Domain Dispute

IEDR Hiring

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The IEDR is hiring to fill a couple of roles. One of the roles is "Registration Services Administrator" which sounds like an entry level position (€23k / year) processing new domain name registrations and transfers: Reviewing, authenticating and processing automated applications (tickets) for new registrations received from customers, and ensuring these applications are in … [Read more...] about IEDR Hiring

IEDR Appoint New Registration Services Team Lead

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IEDR announced earlier today that Paul Shortt has been appointed Supervisor of the Registration Services team. Effectively the role is manager of the registration services team which handle the day to day operations handling new registrations, updates and transfers of .ie domain names. According to the announcement Mr Shortt will be reporting directly to IEDR CEO David … [Read more...] about IEDR Appoint New Registration Services Team Lead

IEDR Switch A Nameserver

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While this might not be terribly exciting unless you're a DNS geek .. IEDR have changed one of their nameservers. Banba is no more. Well it's still there .. .. it's just not in the root anymore: eg. dig +trace log.ie ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> +trace log.ie ;; global options: +cmd .            518400    IN    NS    I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .   … [Read more...] about IEDR Switch A Nameserver

IEDR Issue Statement About Security Incident

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IEDR issued a statement yesterday in relation to the hijacking of google.ie and yahoo.ie The statement (IEDR_Statement_F_issued_9_November_2012) which is included below admits that their site was compromised and that the registrar was not to blame. IEDR has concluded an investigation by the company and external security consultants of an unauthorised intrusion into the … [Read more...] about IEDR Issue Statement About Security Incident

IANA Whois For IE Updated

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The IANA whois data for .ie was changed yesterday. While the "sponsoring organisation" is still listed as UCD,  the other contacts have switched The old listing was: Hostmaster Team at University College University College Dublin Computing Services Computer Centre Belfield Dublin City hostmaster@ucd.ie And a similar entry for the technical contact. This is now … [Read more...] about IANA Whois For IE Updated

IEDR Claim Website Will Be Restored Tomorrow

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The IEDR's main website has been in "maintenance mode" for the last two weeks with a simple message about a security incident being displayed. As of this morning, however, it has been updated with slightly different text: IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has restored services to all of its customers. Our corporate website, which is moving to another platform, was deemed a lower … [Read more...] about IEDR Claim Website Will Be Restored Tomorrow

IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks

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The IEDR websites are currently unavailable. However this time there is a holding page which carries a simple explanatory message: IEDR systems are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience to our customers. As you may be aware, there was a security incident on Tuesday 9th October, involving two high profile .ie domains. There was an unauthorised … [Read more...] about IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks