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Technical Audit

The Registry periodically sweeps the IE zone to identify and correct problem delegations.

Policy on DNS 'glue'

DNS A records (a.k.a. glue) are only included in the IE zone under certain conditions.

IE Nameservers

Informational note about the nameservers that are authoritative for the IE zone.
  		 

WHOIS Search

To check whether a .ie name is available enter it into the box below and click Search:

.ie

Whois Terms and Conditions

  1. Tuesday 24th April 2012: Minister Bruton launches IEDR €100,000 OPTIMISE Fund for second year
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  2. Tuesday, 17th April 2012: .ie domain Q1 2012 registrations up 12.2% on previous quarter
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  3. Tuesday, 17th January 2012: IEDR Sponsors Young Scientist Awards
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  4. Wednesday, 4th January 2012: IEDR records 12.9% net growth in .ie domains for 2011
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  5. Tuesday, 20th December 2011: IEDR Chairman Honoured by the Royal Irish Academy
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  6. Friday, 16th December 2011: Winners of the Junior Spiders Announced
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  7. Tuesday, 15th November 2011: 16 of 20 Spiders Winners Use .ie
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  8. Wednesday, 26th October 2011: .ie Registration Growth Continues with Highest Ever Q3 Registrations
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  9. Friday, 30th September 2011: Jerry Kennelly wins Overall Dot ie Net Visionary 2011
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  10. Wednesday, 28th September 2011: Recipients of IE Domain Registry’s €100,000 OPTIMISE Fund announced
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  11. Wednesday, 17th of August, 2011: Record number of entries for Dot ie Net Visionary Awards
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  12. Tuesday, 26th July 2011: Nominations Open for the Dot ie Net Visionary Awards 2011
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  13. Thursday, 14th July 2011: Annual Report Shows IEDR Continued to Perform Strongly in 2010
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  14. Monday, 11th July 2011: .ie Registration Growth Continues with Highest Quarter and Single Month
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  15. Wednesday 8th June 2011: IEDR takes part in World IPv6 Day
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  16. Monday 9th May 2011: IEDR supports Getting Irish Business Online Campaign
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  17. Wednesday 4th May 2011: IEDR launches OPTIMISE €100,000 E-Commerce Website Development Fund
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  18. Thursday, 7th April, 2011: .ie Quarterly Registrations Exceed 10,000 for the First Time
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  19. Wednesday, 19th January, 2011: IEDR records 12.9% growth in .ie domains for 2010
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  20. Friday 26th November 2010: First Domain Name Industry Report Published by IEDR
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  21. Tuesday 23rd November 2010: IE Domain Registry congratulates winners of the Spiders 2010
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  22. Friday 5th November 2010 - IEDR celebrates 150,000th .ie on world’s second safest domain
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  23. 21st October 2010 - IE Domain Registry 2009 Annual Report shows IEDR continued to perform strongly
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  24. Monday, 11th October 2010: Landmark Victory in Illegal Downloads Case
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  25. "Internet Register Ireland" - Warning
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  26. Wednesday, 4th August 2010: IEDR Appoints Former IIA CEO as Non-Executive Director
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  27. Wednesday, 28th July 2010: Best performing 2nd quarter for .ie domain registrations to date
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  28. 15th July 2010: IEDR welcomes the signing of the root zone
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  29. 4th June 2010: IE Domain Registry Hosts the CENTR General Assembly
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  30. 3rd May 2010: March sees strongest .ie domain registrations for 12 months.
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  31. 24th May 2010: Digitise the Nation Competition Winners
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  32. 21st May 2010: IE Domain Registry congratulates the IIA's Net Visionary Awards winners
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  33. 14th May 2010: IEDR to host major European conference for Europe's leading domain registries.
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  34. 11th May 2010: IE Domain Registry partners with IIA to support the 'Digitise the Nation' campaign
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  35. Decisions
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  36. 12th Jan 2010: 2009 strongest year on record for .ie domain registrations.
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  37. 16th December 2009: IEDR and HEAnet agree Escrow arrangement to further safeguard .ie Registry
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  38. 3rd December 2009: Ireland's web domain .ie is safest in Europe, second safest in the World
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  39. 24th November 2009: IEDR 2008 Annual Report Scoops Design Award
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  40. 20th November 2009: IEDR congratulates the winners of the Golden Spider Awards
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  41. 22nd September 2009: API v1.1.9 deployed on api-test.domainregistry.ie
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  42. 28th August 2009: Important Technical Notice: IEDR IP Address Range
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  43. 23rd July 2009: 2008 - Turnover and registrations rise at Ireland's top level domain.
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  44. 18th June 2009: Important Notice: IEDR API SSL Changes.
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  45. 13th May 2009: Record number of new .ie domain registrations in Q1 2009
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  46. 7th April 2009: Easter Opening Hours
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