Ars Technica: Security breach briefly hijacks connections to Google.ie and Yahoo.ie.

[Domhnall Walsh]

Interesting, eh?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/irelands-domain-registry-suspends-some-operations-following-security-breach/

[gerryk]

First they are exposed as corrupt, now as inept and insecure.
Nice one IEDR.

On 12 October 2012 13:36, Domhnall Walsh <domh...@091labs.com> wrote:

Interesting, eh?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/irelands-domain-registry-suspends-some-operations-following-security-breach/

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[Domhnall Walsh]

You sound about as shocked as I was...

[Aaron Hastings]

Corrupt? Background, please?

[gerryk]

http://www.internetnews.me/2012/10/04/iedr-data-dump/

You can download the full FOI data dump and read about whose palms were crossed with silver to initially create the IEDR.

tl;dr:
If you read the memo of association, two items really stand out...
1. they directors are indemnified from company funds against a broad range of personal losses
2. the directors need not divulge any 'company secrets' on public request

In short, they are not behaving as a public service, which, as the national registrar, they should.

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[Duncan Thomas]

On 12 October 2012 15:28, gerryk <ger...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.internetnews.me/2012/10/04/iedr-data-dump/

You can download the full FOI data dump and read about whose palms were crossed with silver to initially create the IEDR.

tl;dr:
If you read the memo of association, two items really stand out...
1. they directors are indemnified from company funds against a broad range of personal losses
2. the directors need not divulge any 'company secrets' on public request

In short, they are not behaving as a public service, which, as the national registrar, they should.

None of which is actually corruption. That a private company entirely legally runs a service that you believe should be publicly run is not corruption. That a private company is not running as you feel a public service should be run is not corruption. There are plenty of public bodies worldwide who are not exactly a model of transparency that are not corrupt.

Michele Neylon is widely known to be on  a crusade (justified or not, I really haven't dug enough to tell) against IEDR and so should be taken with a grain of salt. As with any form of research, consult more than one source.

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Duncan Thomas

[Alanna Kelly]

An acquaintance one told me the reason .ie is .ie instead of .ei is that the people at Ireland On Line who were responsible for sending the forms to ICANN filled the form out while drunk and that is why we have .ie. This person was involved in the process so I have no reason to doubt her story.

[Mark Grealish]

Backing evidence: I did that with my daughter's name while perfectly sober. 

[Domhnall Walsh]

IE is an ISO country code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

IE code registered 1974, IEDR took over domain registration in July 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_Domain_Registry

..meh. Time machine needed.

EI is used in aviation because aircraft registrations pre-date any ISO standards.

Domhnall.

[Alanna Kelly]

More reason to assume the crazy former flatmate is genuinely crazy...

[Duncan Thomas]

Anecdotes like that happen, and memory is a very strange thing, entirely too easy to become utterly convinced of something that never actually happened...

[Shaun ONeil]

On 12 Oct 2012, at 18:48, Domhnall Walsh <domh...@091labs.com> wrote:
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> EI is used in aviation because aircraft registrations pre-date any ISO standards.

Trivia .. EI in aviation is just a lucky coincidence. The 'E' is Europe(north), so while it looks intentional, EG, ED, EN, ES, etc (GB, DE, NO, SE respectively) don't.

Shaun

[Domhnall Walsh]

Indeed. 1974 kinda makes sense as ARPAnet first spread outside the US year before, necessitating them having to think about international addressing schemes... though DNS is a 1980's invention, so maybe not :)

[Domhnall Walsh]

Sounds sensible enough!

[gerryk]

EI is also the Irish amateur radio call sign prefix. UK is G, Germany is D etc.