[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Carl Makin]

Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com>:
> So who came first in .com.au?
> [and .net.au, org.au, etc., and oz.au]

I registered hhcs.gov.au for the then Department of Health, Housing  
and Community Services in early 1994 and then ran a UUCP feed from  
ADFA (thanks Christopher!) for mail and news.  It seems to have gone  
now but I believe it ran from then until some time in 1999.  I also  
registered health.gov.au as a placeholder in 1995 before I left the  
Department.

In 1994/5 the Department's official Internet access was via Telecom's  
"Telememo" service at, from memory, around $0.60 per message sent and  
received, transmitted via Austpac (X.25) to and from the Department's  
office automation suite, Dec All-In-One running on DEC 9000 and 6000  
series VMS machines.  You needed your Director's permission for  
*every* message.

Carl.