order blocked by Irish lack of postal code

  • Unknown's avatar

    I am trying to register a new site but the billing site hangs up because it queries my postal code. We don’t really have postal codes in Ireland, there is a newish privately owned system that no one uses, so I doubt it is that. Surely this must be known?

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  • Unknown's avatar

    In this post, a WordPress.com staff member suggests:

    adding/taking away a space between the two codes (XXX XXXX / XXXXXXX) or lowercase letters (xxx xxxx).

    If that doesn’t work, add “modlook” to the tags of this forum thread to flag it for a staff member’s attention.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thanks, I did try all of that, finally put in an EirCode that seemed to work, but I would have had to pay to look up the real one for the employer address I was trying to use. The system in Ireland is not widely used or accepted, indeed it is rather a boondoggle, so this requirement should really be removed for the Republic.

  • Hi there,

    I realise this is frustrating, but this is something we have no control over. The domain registry for a particular domain sets the requirement for what info is needed to register a particular domain (for .nl domains you sill need to provide a fax number!), and domain registrars have to get that information from everyone who registers a domain. There isn’t an option to waive it for a particular country.

    We do what we can on our end – for example Jamaica uses absolutely no post code system at all, so we’ve hard-coded a generic code into our system that users from that country can use – but if a country does have a system, even if it isn’t widely used, then valid codes do need to be entered.

  • Unknown's avatar

    WE DO NOT HAVE A POSTAL CODE SYSTEM IN LEBANON. cAN YOU PLS HELP ME TO BE ABLE TO UPGRADE MY SUBSCRIPTION?
    USER: NOURATRADING

  • @nouratrading

    According to http://en.world-postcodes.com/Lebanon and several other sites Lebanon has a postal code system. You need to provide a 8-digit code for Lebanon, with a space between the 4th and 5th characters.

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