The IEDR has changed alot in the last couple of years. It is no longer run by someone who is orange and ruthless enough to feature in Bloggorahs dodgey photo opportunities. They have lowered their prices substantially, and are even lowering them again in the new year. It’s alot easier to get silly and pointless vanity .IEs. Not too much sex please though and no porn, we are Irish after all. Even JMCC (arrrgh) has moved on to the .EU fiasco.
I discovered today that the IEDR even have a moderately usable website where you can modify domain information without having to send multiple faxes. I changed by (long forgotten NIC handle) and modified the authoritative DNS servers for my vanity .ie in less then half an hour. Which is nice.
Shame about some of the problems I encountered along the way:
- You can’t have any “funny” characters in your password. It truncates after anything “funny” without warning you.
- You can’t have too many characters in your password. It truncates after 10 without warning you.
- Once you finally get a new password and make the changes you can only specify 3 authoritative DNS servers, I imagine more will require faxes and phone calls :(
- The changes are obviously applied manually, and should be completed within 2 days. Then you have to wait for the next .ie refresh.
Overall, not bad. They can expect Santa to visit, but they might have to wait a bit longer for that Wii and make do with a PS2 this year.
Bah Humbug, I’m off for lunch.
2 Comments
You can specify more nameservers simply by requesting them from the IEDR. I’d recommend you do it via your reseller.
DNS changes usually take less than a day these days if they are correctly setup
Regards
Michele
Silly? How dare… well, ok, maybe. Just a bit.
People tend to pronounce it “dodgy” though.
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