[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
<snip>
> 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.

....perhaps the question should be who was the registrar and where are
their records.

I registerd ramin.com.au through connect.com.au and set up a website
immediately.

But what of squatters and legal claims to domain names.

Maybe we could put a question to the AuDA agm.

Josh Rowe wrote:
<snip>
> While we're on the topic of .au, it's a good chance to plug the auDA 
AGM being held next week in Sydney.  Anyone with an interest is welcome
- I will be there!
>
> Notice of 2006 Annual General Meeting
> http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-23102006/
<snip>
> Date: Thursday 23 November 2006
> Time: 11.00 am
> Venue: Maddocks, Angel Place, 123 Pitt St, Sydney
>

Marghanita



> 
> 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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