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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 To Go Offline Again This Evening

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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 for .ie registry services in less … [Read more...] about IEDR To Go Offline Again This Evening

IEDR Suffers Another Outage

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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 outage has taken whois … [Read more...] about IEDR Suffers Another Outage

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

IEDR Update WHOIS Output To Include Registration Date

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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 … [Read more...] about IEDR Update WHOIS Output To Include Registration Date

IE Domains Break 175 Thousand Mark And Reports Growth

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The latest press release from IEDR covering Q1 of 2012 announces a couple of things: Q1 2012 registration figures were 12.2% higher than Q4 2011. We previously reported that they'd recorded a 12.9% growth during 2011 There are now more than 175 thousand .ie domain names registered. (As of 12.21 today there are 178949 in total) There's no actual analysis of the … [Read more...] about IE Domains Break 175 Thousand Mark And Reports Growth

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