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 listing… Continue reading IANA Whois For IE Updated
Tag: IE Domain Registry
IEDR Claim Website Will Be Restored Tomorrow
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… Continue reading IEDR Claim Website Will Be Restored Tomorrow
IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks
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… Continue reading IEDR Take Website Offline Following High Profile Domain Hijacks
IEDR Lose Google.ie?
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.… Continue reading IEDR Lose Google.ie?
IEDR Data Dump
As regular readers probably know, I run Blacknight. Blacknight is Ireland’s largest hosting provider and domain name registrar. We’re also the only Irish company to ever have been accredited with ICANN. And we’re the single largest registrar of .ie domain names on the planet. If you peruse the archives here and on my personal blog… Continue reading IEDR Data Dump
IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
IEDR have announced that from Monday September 24th at 1am the .ie zone will be reloaded once every two hours. In other words, name server changes, modifications, registrations and other activity will be faster and move much closer to the model employed by gTLDs, such as .com and most ccTLDs such as .me, .co, .co.uk… Continue reading IEDR To Offer More Frequent Zone Reloads
IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening
IEDR have informed registrars that they will be taking all registration services offline this evening from around 7pm until midnight. As with their unplanned outages in the last few days the .ie zone will continue to resolve as normal, but new registrations, modifications and whois lookups will be unavailable This will be the 3rd outage… Continue reading IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening
IEDR Suffers Another Outage
The IEDR are currently experiencing another outage. IEDR had previously suffered an outage from lunchtime on Saturday until 6am yesterday morning. While they had informed registrars and the public that they were considering taking services offline at some point in the next 24 – 48 hours this most recent issue was apparently unplanned. While the… Continue reading IEDR Suffers Another Outage
IEDR Suffers Major Outage
IEDR is currently suffering a major outage. Since this afternoon none of the IEDR websites have been online, whois for the .ie cctld has been offline and all other services including registrations and updates have been unavailable. Existing .ie domain names continue to resolve. It’s unclear what the cause of the outage is or when… Continue reading IEDR Suffers Major Outage
IEDR Update WHOIS Output To Include Registration Date
IEDR have updated their whois output to include the domain name registration date. The whois output now includes both the registration and the expiry dates. See example: whois neylon.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: neylon.ie descr: Michele Neylon descr: Sole Trader descr: Personal Trading Name admin-c: AHN397-IEDR… Continue reading IEDR Update WHOIS Output To Include Registration Date