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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

IEDR Lose Google.ie?

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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 … [Read more...] about IEDR Lose Google.ie?

IEDR Data Dump

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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 you'll see quite a few articles which are … [Read more...] about IEDR Data Dump

IEDR Suffers Major Outage

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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 it will be resolved, though IEDR have … [Read more...] about IEDR Suffers Major Outage

Irish Country Code High Risk For Business

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If you're going to choose a country code for your business you might want to think long and hard about choosing the .ie ccTLD. Why? Because if you reorganise your business you might end up losing your domain. In several recent cases the IEDR have flatly refused to update the registrant details on domain names citing registry rules that were never applied to the initial … [Read more...] about Irish Country Code High Risk For Business

IE Domain Registry DNSSEC Task Force

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Over the last couple of years DNSSEC has become one of "the" topics for registry operators and DNS people. The registry operator for .ie, the IEDR, has been working on their DNSSEC deployment plans for well over a year and earlier this morning opened up their "task force" to accredited registrars. They would also appear to be interested in getting input from other members of … [Read more...] about IE Domain Registry DNSSEC Task Force

IEDR Launch Why.ie and Celebrate 150k Names Registered

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Last Thursday evening the IEDR officially launched why.ie which has been setup as a neutral resource for potential registrants of .ie domain names. The event also saw the announcement of the 150 thousandth .ie domain name, which was localcomputerrepair.ie. Speaking at the event David Curtin, IEDR CEO, stated: “We’re delighted to have passed the 150,000th mark for .ie domain … [Read more...] about IEDR Launch Why.ie and Celebrate 150k Names Registered

IEDR Release Annual Report

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The IEDR, the operator of the .ie ccTLD registry, have released their annual report for 2009.The document, which obviously cost quite a bit to design, covers various aspects of the organisation's activities and is not limited to the domain registrations. In common with quite a few ccTLD operators IEDR is also involved in ENUM, though there has been little or no takeup for the … [Read more...] about IEDR Release Annual Report