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Key auDA panels that shaped the current .au landscape include the Name Policy Advisory Panel of 2000, [13] and the Competition Model Advisory Panel of 2000. [14] The latter concluded that the .au domain space should be as open as possible, with competition at both the domain name registry and the domain name registrar levels. [15]
The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to Kevin Robert Elz of Melbourne University in 1986.. After an approximately five-year process in the 1990s, the Internet industry created a self-regulatory body called .au Domain Administration (auDA) to operate the domain.
ICANN's list of permissible purposes includes domain-name research, domain-name sale and purchase, regulatory enforcement, personal data protection, legal actions, and abuse mitigation. [42] Although WHOIS has been a key tool of journalists in determining who was disseminating certain information on the Internet, [ 43 ] the use of WHOIS by the ...
This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet.A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database. [1]
AusRegistry was a Melbourne, Australia based company that specialised in domain name registry services.. AusRegistry was the registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australian) domain names including .com.au and .net.au and the non-commercial domain names .edu.au and .gov.au - for over 16 years, from 2002 until 1 July 2018. [1]
The Australian Network Information Centre (AUNIC) was the national Internet registry for Australia.It is now disbanded, and its responsibilities undertaken by Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre which serves the entire Asia-Pacific region.
An internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) is a top-level domain with a specially encoded domain name that is displayed in an end user application, such as a web browser, in its native language script or a non-alphabetic writing system, such as Latin script (.us, .uk and .br), Indic script (.
The eligibility policy required a direct connection between a company's official name and its domain name, in contrast to the strictly first-come-first-served policy of the .com registry. [ 11 ] Elz was, however, criticised during his tenure, as domain name applications often took many months to be examined, despite the commercialisation of the ...