[LINK] TLD and 2LD Web-Servers

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 5/12/11 11:08 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:08:39PM +1100, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>>   Is oz.au dead now?  (Sniff, sniff)
>>>   http://www.oz.au , http://oz.au/
> At 10:44 +1100 5/12/11, Chris Maltby wrote:
>> Not here... whether those things resolve would be up to Robert Elz
>> and I'm guessing he would have little interest in doing that for
>> the handful of active .oz.au sites left.
> I take it back - oz.au does exist.  DNS response below.
>
> But there may be no active servers in the domain.
Try Googling:
site:oz.au -site:danny.oz.au - lots of old university domains, which now 
redirect to their .edu.au domains.

RC
>
> Back in 2000, AuDA pointed to the .oz.au policy document at:
> http://munnari.oz.au/netinfo/ORG.AU-policy
> munnari and www.munnari still have DNS entries, but no server is found.
>
> Mark Tearle made a submission to the AuDA Review in May 2010, as follows:
> http://www.google.com.au/url?q=http://www.auda.org.au/document.php%3Fdocumentid%3D1167&sa=U&ei=ZQncTqqzF4SsiAfawP3GDQ&ved=0CBIQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNFtolD_xcoVPoX2dqu0_xPJSGcNUg
>>   ... oz.au largely remains to support the legacy role of
>> munnari.oz.au in Australia's Internet infrastructure and
>> registrations in the 2LD have been removed by their holders.
>> [Re gw.au, otc.au, telememo.au and oz.au] All four of these .au 2LDs
>> could easily be regarded as  having being voluntarily relinquished
>> by their registrants.
> ___________________________________________________
>
> ;<<>>  DiG 9.3.6-APPLE-P2<<>>  oz.au any
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3440
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;oz.au.				IN	ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> oz.au.			172800	IN	SOA	munnari.oz.au.
> hostmaster.munnari.oz.au. 2011110100 10800 1800 3600000 1800
> oz.au.			172800	IN	NS	ns.UU.NET.
> oz.au.			172800	IN	NS	au2ld.CSIRO.au.
> oz.au.			172800	IN	NS	munnari.oz.au.
> oz.au.			172800	IN	TXT	"This zone copyright (c) 2009"
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> munnari.oz.au.		7200	IN	A	202.29.151.3
> munnari.oz.au.		7200	IN	AAAA	2001:3c8:9007:1::21
> munnari.oz.au.		7200	IN	AAAA	2001:3c8:9009:181::2
>
> ;; Query time: 87 msec
> ;; SERVER: 203.12.160.35#53(203.12.160.35)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Dec  5 10:57:22 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 254
>
> ___________________________________________________
>
> ;<<>>  DiG 9.3.6-APPLE-P2<<>>  www.munnari.oz.au any
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43963
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.munnari.oz.au.		IN	ANY
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> oz.au.			1800	IN	SOA	munnari.oz.au.
> hostmaster.munnari.oz.au. 2011110100 10800 1800 3600000 1800
>
> ;; Query time: 255 msec
> ;; SERVER: 203.12.160.35#53(203.12.160.35)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Dec  5 11:02:32 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 82
>
>