[LINK] Oldest registered .au domain?

[Adam Todd]

I very much doubt that auDA could give even the slightest care to "history" 
when it's focus is on membership fees, politics and political status.

Be like asking the Prime Minster to cough up the records for Stolen 
Generation Aboriginals like my great great grandmother - why would the 
Government (similar to auDA) care about something that has no benefit to 
them and is only of the interest of a tiny number of people?


At 07:57 AM 8/11/2006, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>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
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>
>>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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