Irish Domain Name - the Domain Name of Ireland

General overall picture - IEDR

The field of higher level of code of country (ccTLD) for Ireland east .ie. This ccTLD is controlled by does not have for the organization of benefit in Dublin, Ireland knows as �an Irish recording of field� or IEDR. The IEDR is not an organization of standardization and does not provide the service to the community of public and Internet. The recording is responsible for the supply of names of IE and the rules concerning their recording. The IEDR applies a policy of resolution of conflict for fields by OMPI and with the difference in other recordings actuates Monday at Friday during work hours.

Conditions of being recorded

The field of IE itself is a restricted field of the fact only the applicants who answer certain criteria can register this name. The two principal conditions are: Being based in Ireland or having a strong bond in Ireland (Ireland Scandinavian and Southerner). Where the applicant is not based in the information of Ireland showing this connection must be provided. Secondly the entity recording the field must have a connection with the name and where this connection is not obvious, must provide the obviousness of this connection.

Retailers and proceeded of recording

Fields are recorded by the approved retailers of field and passed to the recording of field directly for approval. The process of approval is followed by a team of people known under the name of IEDR Hostmasters. It is of their responsibility to make sure that the conditions of recording. The communication passed to the approved retailer if more information is required. This complete process of control led to the positive and negative effects on the reputation of the Domain Name.

Positive aspects and negative with the field

Positive side the field was recently voted the second surest field in the world after the Finnish ccTLD. Generally fields of IE are held in the great regard by the Net surfers based Irish. One sees it like quality control mark or the authenticity to make of them businesses on line and consequently Web sites based by .ie are made confidence above their cousins of .com. Are very seldom the great attacks of Spam launched by a field of IE and the rate of notches and other attacks of Internet starting from the hostname of IE is rather low.

The price of the Domain Name of .ie is higher than the TLD or the average ccTLD, but this price was appreciably tiny room during the 2 last years, of an average of around .65 as with bottom as .19 today. It is due to the traditionally large human entry required to approve and control a booklet of field. Recently the recording of field themselves applied a mechanism of api to the recording, the invoicing and the modifications of way accelerated of the Domain Name. This was carried out by the communication with the community of retailer to evaluate their needs on a basis for day in day. Because of the execution successful of this api among the community the price to record fields of IE fell with some suppliers carrying out the manner in the reduction of the prices.

Future of the field

The future of the .ie is luminous. New technical advances in api as well as the reduction continues Irish price of field mean that the number of recordings increases constantly. The greatest promotion of the mark of field by the recording of field and the community of of the same retailer also led to the increased recordings.