A lot of government departments in Ireland have their own domain name(s). Most are in .ie. Semi-state bodies and embassies have a mixture of ccTLDs and gTLD registrations Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ http://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Personal blog: https://michele.blog/ Some thoughts: https://ceo.hosting/ ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 On 12/06/2018, 17:10, "dns-wg on behalf of Niall O'Reilly" <dns-wg-bounces@ripe.net on behalf of niall.oreilly@ucd.ie> wrote: On 12 Jun 2018, at 15:45, Antonio Prado wrote: > so may I assume that just central government (and its departments of > course) uses third level domains under .gov.ie? I'm not in a position to confirm this. As you probably know, the DNS is both technically and administratively delegated. You'll need to look to the delegatee for the confirmation you seek. This URL may be a place to start: https://www.iedr.ie/whois-result/?whois=gov Best regards, Niall O'Reilly