Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao has been issued with a formal breach notice by ICANN Compliance. The registrar appears to be having pretty serious issues. They’re not escrowing domain data to Iron Mountain (or anyone else) even though they’re a relatively new registrar and would have been obliged to do so as soon as they started… Continue reading Vietnamese Registrar Gets Slapped By ICANN Compliance
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.Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server
We mentioned the plans to relaunch .pw recently. Since then the .pw team have been quite active. The new registry site is now live and includes information about the launch, with the dates of the various periods ie. sunrise, landrush and general availability. Their IANA entry was also updated earlier today to include the new… Continue reading .Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server
IANA Whois For IE Updated
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
CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS
CNNIC, the .cn registry, are to implement an alternative to traditional whois. According to an announcement by ICANN’s Kurt Pritz, the Chinese organisation will be implementing a “RESTful” Whois server implementation. This is based on ongoing work within the IETF in the rather oddly named “weirds” project. Of course “weirds” is actually an acronym for:… Continue reading CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS
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 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 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