.ie WHOIS Lookup
.ie is the country-code extension of Ireland, administered by the IE Domain Registry. Look up a .ie address and see what the record contains.
- 1.494 extensions
- IANA 1601 ICANN accredited
- 2 protocols — RDAP and WHOIS
Your IP address 216.73.216.31
.ie WHOIS Lookup: IE Domain Registry Records
.ie is Ireland's country code extension, delegated into the root zone on 27 January 1988 and operated by the IE Domain Registry. Queries are answered on port 43 by whois.weare.ie. In our measurement on 12 August 2026 the reply carried nineteen fields, and the zone held a DS record in the root. The layout follows the template of generic extensions, but departs from it clearly in two places.
The first is identity: in the record we measured the holder's name arrived open, and the registry appended a note at the end of the reply — holders whose name is not showing may ask their registrar or the registry to publish it. Showing the name under .ie is therefore neither a prohibition nor an obligation but the holder's own choice. The second difference is in the roles: admin, technical and billing are represented by identifiers alone, and in the record we measured the billing identifier was closed for privacy while the other two were open.
The dates are complete: creation, last change and expiry all arrive in UTC. A field for the registrar's IANA number is present but its value reads not applicable — .ie registrars answer to the registry's own accreditation. IANA's RDAP bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .ie. To compare neighbouring markets, see the .eu WHOIS lookup and .nl WHOIS lookup pages.
About the .ie extension
- Extension
- .ie
- WHOIS server
- whois.weare.ie
- RDAP endpoint
- This extension has no RDAP endpoint in the IANA bootstrap registry.
- Registry
- IE Domain Registry CLG
- Delegated
- 27 January 1988
- Fields measured
- 19 fields (12 August 2026)
- Identity
- The holder's name can be published; admin and tech roles appear as identifiers only
- RDAP
- IANA's bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .ie
WHOIS FAQ
Does a .ie WHOIS record show the holder's name?
It can. In the record we measured the name arrived open, and the registry noted at the end of the reply that holders whose name is not showing may ask to have it published. This is one of the few extensions where showing the name is a preference. So where a .ie record carries no name, do not take that as the outcome of a privacy rule — the holder may have chosen not to publish it.
What do the role identifiers in a .ie record show?
The admin, technical and billing roles are represented not by a name or a contact block but by an identifier each. In the record we measured the admin and technical identifiers were open while the billing one was closed for privacy. Open identifiers do not let you make contact; they only show which roles the record carries and whether they differ from one another.
Does a .ie record carry creation and expiry dates?
It does. The reply gives the creation date in Creation Date, the last modification in Updated Date and the end of the term in Registry Expiry Date, all in UTC; the record we measured was opened in 2002. Our result screen derives the domain's age and remaining term from those three values and turns the indicator to a warning colour as the term runs short.
Why does the IANA number read not applicable under .ie?
Because .ie registrars answer to the registry's own accreditation programme rather than ICANN's. The field is present in the reply — the template matches the generic one — but its value reads not applicable. That does not make the record incomplete; it points to the country code extension's own institutional order. The registrar's name and abuse contact arrive with real values in the same reply.
Can .ie registration data be queried over RDAP?
No. IANA's RDAP bootstrap registry defines no endpoint for .ie, which our measurement confirmed. Since 28 January 2025 RDAP has been the definitive source for generic extensions, but country code extensions fall outside that arrangement. So the port 43 WHOIS service is the only machine-readable source for .ie registration data.
What do the status codes in a .ie record lock?
The codes come from ICANN's shared EPP vocabulary; the record we measured carried three, all with the server prefix, meaning the deletion, transfer and update locks had been set by the registry. That prefix matters in practice: a lock set by the registry cannot be lifted by the registrar. Our result screen prints what each code blocks alongside it.