[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Adam Todd]

At 06:38 PM 6/11/2006, Roger Clarke wrote:
>Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com>:
>>So who came first in .com.au?
>>[and .net.au, org.au, etc., and oz.au]
>
>As the Institute coughs up snippets, I'll be recording them for a future 
>update of the [only?] [semi-official??] history of the Internet in 
>Australia [semi-official in that the National Library has archived it].
>
>I didn't focus on the DNS when I did that research, because of course it 
>was an add-on rather than the fundament (albeit an increasingly important 
>add-on).

Nooo!  You must consider DNS.  There were "names" in the Hosts file that 
never made it to the "conformity" of the DNS because they were so "random" 
and not "tired"

You need to specify whether it's a com.au name as in DNS or com.au name as 
in "hosts" or possibly even NIS

You might even have to consider Bang Addresses too!


>In particular, "In March 1986, soon after the domain-name system was 
>deployed, IANA delegated the .au ccTLD to Robert Elz, at Melbourne University"
>
>[So anyone who claims to have had a '.au' domain-name before March 1986 is 
>likely to either be telling porkies or having a memory-slip.]

Or be from the hosts files before it was all official :)  Or be a rouge 
trader :)