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Registering a .ie address

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  • 29-08-2008 12:03pm
    #1
    john08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    how do i go about registering a .ie address and do i have to have an irish company with a few years of accounts?


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    easiest way is to have a business name / company

    If you have this you've got your business number.

    Go to one of the Irish hosting companies

    Blacknight / Hosting365 / Digiweb.ie

    Sign up for the .ie you want there. (they are a LOT cheaper than the IEDR .. irish domain registry)

    Fill in your application ... and away you go ...

    There are generally terms of what you can apply for ...


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    john08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭john08


    thanks for the info but do you have to have a few years of accounts or not?


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    no you don't need any accounts ...


    http://www.blacknight.com/domains.html

    check if your .ie is available ...

    will cost you about 20 something quid ...

    going direct to the IEDR is a bit of a crazy price I think 80 or something like that last time I checked

    Edit: you'll probably want to get yourself hosting ... if you've and irish market ... its probably best to have it hosted in ireland.
    May cost you a few quid more .. but you get the irish IP space with it (though not all Irish hosting companies have servers located in ireland)


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    Heisenberg.
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    beazee
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    Blacknight charges 24.99e for .ie domain per year

    Letshost will pass it on to you for 19.99e


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    beazee wrote: »
    Blacknight charges 24.99e for .ie domain per year

    Letshost will pass it on to you for 19.99e

    where are letshost's servers located these days ?


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    beazee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭beazee


    john08 wrote: »
    how do i go about registering a .ie address

    The question was where to register...
    You can host it wherever you want.
    where are letshost's servers located these days ?

    Maybe ask them?? :D


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    khye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭khye


    Can you get to letshost.ie right now?


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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    beazee wrote: »
    The question was where to register...
    You can host it wherever you want.



    Maybe ask them?? :D

    normally easier to register / host with the same for .ie's (that said I use a third party for .coms)
    khye wrote: »
    Can you get to letshost.ie right now?

    Nope


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    khye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭khye


    Great..

    :(


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    #12
    khye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭khye


    Ah its grand again...not sure what that was.. ah well


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    forbairt wrote: »
    where are letshost's servers located these days ?

    What does their server location matter in relation to domain registration? :confused: If they're cheaper, then they're cheaper. Simple as that.

    You don't necessarily have to register a business name either. I recently registered a .ie domain using the 'Discretionary Applicant' approach. I had to state a legitimate claim to the specific domain. The IEDR agreed with my reasoning for the domain and they processed my request without me having to fork out €20 via CRO.

    Waiting on CRO to process your Business Name can take a while too. I waited nearly four weeks the last time I used their service. If you want to get a .ie via a business name then buy it now via a domain reseller and then wait for your documentation to come through. The domain reseller can hold the .ie domain for you while you wait on the CRO to process your paperwork.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Rollo Tamasi wrote: »
    Waiting on CRO to process your Business Name can take a while too. I waited nearly four weeks the last time I used their service. If you want to get a .ie via a business name then buy it now via a domain reseller and then wait for your documentation to come through. The domain reseller can hold the .ie domain for you while you wait on the CRO to process your paperwork.

    Only for 30 days.

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    forbairt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    Rollo Tamasi wrote: »
    What does their server location matter in relation to domain registration? :confused: If they're cheaper, then they're cheaper. Simple as that.

    Given the original question I assumed the person isn't that web savy ... as such having a host with one crowd and a domain with another is going to be a bit of a brain sore for them. As such I'd recommend going with just the one crowd for both. Hence I ask where the webservers are located (when I think about it I seem to recall a post on IWF saying their servers were now located in ireland). They are targetting (asking for an IE domain) the irish market as such having Irish IP space makes sense from an SEO point of view (at least from my experience of it)


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