Spiral Hosting

Grab an Irish domain name this week for only €14.00 in the FINAL WEEK of our .ie domain promotion. This promotion must end on Friday 25 June 2010! This is the lowest price for .ie domain registration in Ireland/anywhere!

There’s no limit on the number of domains you can register at this price. You can place your domain order here. You don’t have to host your website with us, but we’d be delighted if you do!

If you host your site with us, you can have your .ie domain name for free. Simply sign up for a web hosting package and eligible domain names will automatically be discounted. Hosting packages start from €30/year.

Application process

The IE Domain Registry is a managed registry and therefore every .ie domain registration requires an application to be submitted. However, they have greatly relaxed the rules recently and the process is a lot less strict. We do most of the work for you!

If we need anything from you for your application, we’ll contact you once we receive your domain order. If there are any faxes or letters required, we will provide a draft letter for you to check, sign and send to us. We make it easy!

.ie domains names for businesses:

• .ie domain names provide your business or organisation with a unique Irish identity. People will identify your organisation as being Irish, or having a presence in Ireland.
• Greater security and more confidence – .ie domain registrations are manually checked, which is encouraging for consumers looking to do business with you.
• Achieve a higher search engine rating. Websites using .ie domain names are ranked higher by Google.ie for Irish searches.
• For businesses, you’ll need to provide your Irish/NI Company or Business number, and possibly a signed letter if you are registering a discretionary domain name or something completely random!.

.ie domain names for individuals:

• Registration of personal domains were introduced in 2007 and they are very popular. This has contributed to record registration levels for .ie domains.
• You cannot register just your first name, or just your surname, but you can choose from lots of different formats: JohnSmith.ie, John-Smith.ie, John-Paul-Smith.ie, JSmith.ie, PaulSmith.ie etc. (more info. [PDF])
• For individuals, you will simply need to provide a scan of your Irish/NI passport, driver’s license, birth certificate or a utility bill.

If you’ve any questions, please contact us!

To take advantage of this offer, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 25th June 2010. All .ie domain applicants must provide the necessary documentation and the documentation must be accepted by the IE Domain Registry by Tuesday 29 June 2010 to avail of the promotional price. Domain applications pending after this date must pay normal price.

We are delighted to announce that Spiral Hosting Limited have become an IE Accredited Registrar. This means that Spiral Hosting are an official reseller of Irish .ie domain names with the IE Domain Registry. We previously registered all .IE domain names through our datacentre’s accreditation.

All .IE domain names purchased through Spiral Hosting were today part of a bulk transfer to our own IEDR accreditation (excluding those that have been newly registered since 10 May 2010 which will be part of a second bulk transfer in due course). The bulk transfer is managed by the IE Domain Registry and will not affect your domain name or website in any way. The renewal date, admin-contact, nameservers etc. associated with your domain name will all remain the same.

We hope that becoming an IE Accredited Registrar will give us access to lower .IE pricing and we can then pass the savings onto our customers. There will not be any downtime during the bulk transfer and you will continue to manage all .IE domains through your Spiral Hosting Client Area.

The IE Domain Registry has confirmed that there was a record number of dot-ie domains registered in 2009.

A total of 37,055 domains were registered during the year, which is an 8 percent increase on 2008 figures. There are now a total of 136,000 dot-ie domains registrations.

The fourth quarter of 2009 saw a total of 8,533 new registrations in October and December, representing a 11.5 percent rise on last year.

IEDR Chief Executive David Curtin said: “It is more encouraging still to report that overall, 2009 was our strongest year ever for .ie registrations; an 8 per cent increase on last year’s figure is significant against the backdrop of economic difficulty for businesses and consumers everywhere”.

“It is important that Irish entrepreneurs now recognise and seize opportunities for growth online.”

For more information on how and why you should register an .IE domain name please see: Spiral Hosting > Irish domain registration

Spiral Hosting has today warned customers of a domain registration scam.

Internet Register Ireland has been sending letters to many of our customers, and even sending letters directly to Spiral Hosting. The company is registered in Germany, although have PO Boxes in Ireland, the UK and France. The letters request payment of €2874 over 3 years (€958 a year) for website registration services. Customers are advised to disregard the letter.

We first reported on this in September 2007 but unfortunately ‘Internet Register Ireland’ is still operating.

IE Domain Registry (the official .ie registry) have issued this press release:

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It has once again come to the attention of the IEDR that a company operating under the name “Internet Register Ireland” is contacting businesses with registered .ie domain names by post and by fax, soliciting domain holders to register their domain name with the “Internet Register Ireland“. The “Internet Register Ireland” will request you to fill out their form and return it to them signed. It should be noted that they charge an excessive fee of approx €958 for the registration of your domain name in their database. The “Internet Register Ireland” previously operated the same practice in Ireland in September 2007 and November 2006 and have been operating similar schemes throughout Europe and Canada throughout the past year.

We would like to reassure all of our customers that no such organisation has been authorised to act on behalf of the IEDR. If you are contacted in this manner we would recommend that you disregard this letter and advise anyone you know who owns a domain name of this activity.

If you require Internet services for your domain name we would advise you to contact an official IE Reseller.