This could prove to be quite embarrassing.

It looks like IEDR have allowed the nameservers for the domain google.ie to be updated to point to a 3rd party and away from Google. Effectively this means that google.ie and any services that rely on it are currently not working.

Here’s the current whois record for Google.ie. Note the rather odd nameservers:

whois google.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96

% Do not remove this notice domain: google.ie

descr: Google, Inc

descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company)

descr: Registered Trade Mark Name

admin-c: KR59-IEDR

tech-c: CCA7-IEDR

registration: 21-March-2002

renewal: 21-March-2013

status: Active

nserver: ns1.farahatz.net

nserver: ns2.farahatz.net

source: IEDR person: Kulpreet Rana

nic-hdl: KR59-IEDR

source: IEDR person: eMarkmonitor Inc

nic-hdl: CCA7-IEDR

source: IEDR

At the moment, for example, if you are an Irish internet user attempting to access Google the search engine will try to automatically push you to the .ie domain. However that is no longer online or reachable.

You can force your browser to go to the .com, but some Windows users I’ve spoken to have reported issues.

So who is at fault here?

IEDR? Google or Mark Monitor?

UPDATE: More on the story – with more details – over on technology.ie

Related articles