Unfortunately last year Google Ireland barely broke even. A tiny €24mil profit on a turnover of €12.5 BILLION [1]<p>Perhaps some charitable Irish taxpayer could sort their domain name out for them?<p>1: <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1006/1224324959631.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1006/122432...</a>
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Whois Search Results PDF Print E-mail<p>[Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]
[whois.domainregistry.ie]<p>% You have issued 1000 queries today. You have 0 queries per rolling 1 hours.<p>% You have reached your 1 hour limit.<p>Looks like they're blocking lookups for google.ie<p><i></i>Edit - actually looks like they're not doing any lookups. Searching anything gives the same error. I haven't done any lookups today for anything, but it thinks I did 1000.
This reminds me of Google Bolivia giving a certificate error because it points to Google.com:<p><a href="https://www.google.bo/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.bo/</a>
I noticed this as I was getting an error similar to<p>SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length<p>I then did a bit of checking.<p>I am using OpenDNS, which shows 119.235.27.219 as the IP now<p>Even when browser tries to redirect to google.com, it is hanging<p>The IEDR reloads the zonefile next at 5pm, although I suspect they may be a bit quicker about it today...
well that can't be good! domain not due to expire until 21 March 2013 so looks like their dns records have been hijacked per the original submitter. A records are still going to google for me right now.