Who regulates domain names?

relax carry on

Is there a central database of domain names in Ireland and is it regulated by anyone?

Graham

relax carry on wrote: »

Is there a central database of domain names in Ireland and is it regulated by anyone?

The IE Domain Registry manage the Irish registry and associate whois records

https://www.iedr.ie/

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www.iedr.ie

Used to be very strict (if you want PaddySmith.ie you needed to send them a copy of your passport) but its been a relaxed a bit since.

Pat Mustard

relax carry on wrote: »

Is there a central database of domain names in Ireland and is it regulated by anyone?

The .ie domain names are regulated by the IEDR, which has a record of who owns which .ie domain names.

Other organisations and domain registrars control other domain names with other suffixes. For example, .com domain names are regulated by a company called Network Solutions.

relax carry on

Thanks all for the answers. Very informative. Was looking at it from a regulatory perspective. It appears from the about section on ider page that comreg should have a role to play but don't appear to be doing anything.

Graham

relax carry on wrote: »

Thanks all for the answers. Very informative. Was looking at it from a regulatory perspective. It appears from the about section on ider page that comreg should have a role to play but don't appear to be doing anything.

anything about........?

swaner

I think that organization called ICANN doing this for whole world.