[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Ivan Trundle [mailto:ivan at itrundle.com] 

> So who came first in .com.au?

Not sure if you are asking for .au or .com.au. 

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:38:29PM +0000, Kim Davies wrote:
> .au was introduced on 5th March 1986.

Serious usage of .au came later. I was at DeakinU during 1987-1989 and was
ash at charlie.oz. A 1987 reference shows the many ways to reach someone (see
end of article): http://cade.athabascau.ca/vol2.2/11_fyi_castro.html

Until 1989 from Usenet posts I can see that we were still using plain old
.oz but I found a post from March 1990 when I was showing both .oz and
.oz.au addresses.
http://securitydigest.org/virus/mirror/www.phreak.org-virus_l/1990/vlnl03.06
5

The .au was used increasingly as we left ACSnet and became part of the
global community via AARNet in 1990.