[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Adam Todd]

At 02:26 PM 6/11/2006, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

>ramin.com.au was registered December 1996 and website was up in January 
>1997.... nearing 10th Birthday!

Gee so young :)

>I can't quite remember if Telstra quite had their act together.

Nope, didn't eve have telecom.  Telstra took over the AVCC "aarnet" network 
in 1996.  Prior to that Telstra didn't sell an IP service.

>ozemail.com.au was around now subsumed by iinet

ozemail stole my trademark - have a look in a 1989 APC magazine and you'll 
find my ads for OzEmail :)

Go back to 1988 and you'll find the OzSys ads :)

>connect (subsumed by AAPT which inturn was eaten by Telecom NZ) had a
>.net.au domain

Connect also managed the .net.au name space and I'm pretty sure Robert gave 
that admin control over quite early in the 1990s.  But again, I think 
Robert Elz can answer the question on the first SLD's and 3LD's far easier 
than our own speculation.

A quick hunt around and the first domain name advertised in Australia was 
by a client I managed in 1990 :)

>as did many including ABC I think had something to do with being above
>commercialisation...

ABC.NET.AU was originally assigned because it was used internally by ABC 
for all it's hosts and servers.    Instead of creating annoying duplicity 
internally they just used the ABC.NET.AU name for public access to their 
public resources and it's stuck ever since.  Why register a second name huh?