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Who regulates domain names?

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  • 03-07-2017 5:16pm
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    relax carry on
    Registered Users Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭


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


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭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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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,165 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    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.


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    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭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.


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    relax carry on
    Registered Users Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭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.


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭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........?


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    swaner
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭swaner


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


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