[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Adam Todd]

Ivan, this is a tricky area.

See those names weren't part of the Domain Name System, but part of the 
HOSTS lists.

I can't even remember what mine was in 1986, it's long gone as the 
"scattered" approach by some of us rebels got clobbered when DNS came into 
being :)

As to the first com.au, I have the full .AU name space registry on my 
server, if you'd like to hunt though it and find the one with the oldest 
date, you are most welcome to.  Whether that in fact indicates the oldest 
is questionable.

 From my immediate recollection .au didn't come about till some time later 
(I'd say "quite later" but time passing is subjective.)


At 01:19 PM 6/11/2006, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>Just wondering, Linkers...
>
>(having just read about symbolics.com, first registered on 15 March
>1985... followed by bbn.com. think.com, mcc.com, dec.com,
>northrop.com, xerox.com, sri.com, hp.com, bellcore.com - and Apple
>got in at a tardy 64th, on 19 Feb 1987, whilst Microsoft not in the
>top 100, nor most other computer companies that exist today).
>
>So who came first in .com.au?
>
>
>iT
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