Irish websites Google.ie and Yahoo.ie went offline on Tuesday afternoon after their DNS servers were apparently hijacked to point to those of a third party. Visitors were redirected to an ‘allegedly fraudulent’ address – farahatz.net. That site has now been taken offline, but it is not known whether the site could have been created with malicious intent. The IE Domain Registry have requested assistance from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. Security experts have suggested that the login details for the IEDR registrar’s console may have been’socially engineered’
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/10/google-ireland-and-yahoo-domains.html