[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Adam Todd]

At 04:38 AM 7/11/2006, Kim Davies wrote:
>Quoting Steve Jenkin on Monday November 06, 2006:
>|
>| I don't recall when '.au' got introduced.
>| In 1991 I got a C-class addr and ".com" for a business from the NIC - I
>| don't recall there being any '.au' or talk of it.
>
>.au was introduced on 5th March 1986.

As part of the DNS structure of as part of the "Hosts"

I guess, and it's a guess, that au being a country code, was anticipated it 
would be long term anyway.