[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Ivan Trundle]

On 07/11/2006, at 10:58 PM, Ash Nallawalla wrote:

>> 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.

Pretty clear, I thought: .com.au. I've read ancient Link discussions  
on the history of .au and internet development thanks to Roger's fine  
work, but there seemed to be a documented gap in the history of .com.au.

Looks like we have a collective gap in memory, or, more to the point,  
it relies on one person resurfacing, or on someone resurrecting old  
hard disks.

I was going to ask 'Where is the first published evidence of a  
'.com.au' address used in advertising, or used to publish the fact  
that a commercial organisation had an online presence...' but thought  
that this would be too specific.

The Australian Library and Information Association declared itself to  
be the first in the .org.au space (hitching a ride on the National  
Library's web server), but this isn't verifiable, either.

iT

>
> 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.
>
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