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% Dot IE domain names must:

	-be less than 66 characters in length, including the '.ie' characters

	-not start with a hyphen '-'

	-not have a label ending in a hyphen before the '.ie' e.g. 'xyz-.ie'

	-not start with 'xn--' which is reserved for IDN usage, e.g. éire.ie

	-not contain any characters outside the range of a-z 0-9 á é í ó ú and - (hyphen)