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Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
based company that specialises in domain name registry
Domain name registry
A domain name registry is a database of all domain names registered in a top-level domain. A registry operator, also called a network information center , is the part of the Domain Name System of the Internet that keeps the database of domain names, and generates the zone files which convert...
services.
AusRegistry is the current Registry Operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au
.au
.au is the Internet country code top-level domain for Australia.-History:The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of 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...
(Australian) domain names including .com.au and .net.au and the non-commercial domain names .edu.au and .gov.au.
In 2002, after an open tender, AusRegistry was awarded a four-year contract to operate the domain name registry for auDA
.au Domain Administration
.au Domain Administration is the manager of the .au domain, which is the country-code top-level domain for Australia. It is a not-for-profit organisation, whose membership is open to organisations or individuals who have an interest in Australian domain name matters.-Early History of .au:The...
. In 2005, after another open tender, AusRegistry was once again selected to be the registry operator for a second four year period commencing on 1 July 2006. Controversially, in February 2009 auDA announced that it had extended its .au Registry Licence Agreement with Ausregistry until 2014 without a tender bid.
AusRegistry's TLD registry is compliant with the latest Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Extensible Provisioning Protocol
The Extensible Provisioning Protocol is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet.The motivation for the creation of EPP was to create a robust and flexible protocol that could provide communication between domain name registries and domain name...
standards and was one of the first to offer rapid DNS updating in ccTLD zone files.
AusRegistry International
AusRegistry International
AusRegistry International is a wholly owned subsidiary of AusRegistry Pty Ltd, the current Registry Operator for the .au ccTLD that provides domain name registry services outside of Australia and other registry services....
is a subsidiary of AusRegistry that provides domain name registry
Domain name registry
A domain name registry is a database of all domain names registered in a top-level domain. A registry operator, also called a network information center , is the part of the Domain Name System of the Internet that keeps the database of domain names, and generates the zone files which convert...
services outside of Australia and other registry services.
AusRegistry operates the Renewable Energy Certificates Registry
Renewable Energy Certificates Registry
The Renewable Energy Certificates Registry is an internet based registry system that is required by the Australian Renewable Energy Act 2000 .The REC-registry is dedicated to:...
under contract to the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER)
Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER)
The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator is a statutory authority established to oversee the implementation of the Australian Government's mandatory renewable energy target....
a statutory authority established to administer the Australian Government's Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000. In 2005 AusRegistry International was awarded the tender to re-develop and manage the REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) Registry system until 2010. The REC registry currently manages over 13.5 million objects within stringent SLAs covering availability and response times.
Adrian Kinderis
Adrian Kinderis
Adrian Kinderis is the founder and CEO of the AusRegistry Group of companies including AusRegistry Pty Ltd, and AusRegistry International Pty Ltd.AusRegistry is the Registry Operator and wholesale domain name provider for the .au ccTLD....
is the CEO of AusRegistry Pty Ltd.
External links
- AusRegistry - official Australian site.
- AusRegistry International - official International site.
- auDA Registry tender - 2006 - details of auDA tender process.
- auDA overview of AusRegistry - details of AusRegistry's contract with auDA to operate the .au Registry.
- auDA extends AusRegistry's .au registry term to 2014
- ORER Web Site
- REC Registry Web Site