AusRegistry was a

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

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based company that specialised in

domain name registry A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a do ...

services. AusRegistry was the registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial

.au .au is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Australia. It was created on 5 March 1986. Domain name policy is managed by .au Domain Administration (auDA). As of July 2018, the registry is operated by Afilias. History The d ...

(Australian)

domain names A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. As ...

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. It doesn't provide any services to the general public.AusRegistry: Overview
. AusRegistry. Retrieved 3 October 2013. In 2002, after an open tender, AusRegistry was awarded a four-year contract to operate the domain name registry for

auDA .au Domain Administration (auDA) is the policy authority and industry self-regulatory body for the .au domain, which is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Australia. It was formed in 1999 to manage the .au ccTLD with the endorsement ...

. 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

announced that it had extended its .au Registry Licence Agreement with Ausregistry until 2014 without a tender bid. A 2012 report found that 99% of registered domains were within the .com.au, .net.au and .org.au spaces. AusRegistry's TLD registry is compliant with the latest Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) standards and was one of the first to offer rapid DNS updating in ccTLD zone files. AusRegistry International is a subsidiary of AusRegistry that provides

services outside of Australia and other registry services. AusRegistry previously operated the

Renewable Energy Certificates Registry The Renewable Energy Certificates Registry (REC-registry) is an internet-based registry system in Australia for renewable energy certificates (RECs). If an Australian organization installs a green energy installation (solar energy, wind energy, etc ...

under contract to the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER) a

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established to administer the

Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government i ...

'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. In July 2015, Neustar Inc. announced the purchased of Bombora Technologies, the parent company of AusRegistry for $118.5 million. In December 2016, it was announced that the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital would acquire Neustar Inc. for about $2.9 billion. Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Ltd is involved in the deal and will a minority owner in Neustar Inc. In December 2017,

announced that after 16 years of running the

.AU .au is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Australia. It was created on 5 March 1986. Domain name policy is managed by .au Domain Administration (auDA). As of July 2018, the registry is operated by Afilias. History The d ...

registry, AusRegistry lost a competitive tender process to

Afilias Afilias, Inc. is a US corporation that is the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services for countri ...

, who will take over the running of the .AU registry on 1 July 2018.

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External links

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AusRegistry International
- official International site.
auDA extends AusRegistry's .au registry term to 2014

REC Registry Web Site
* Australian registr
whois
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ausregistry Domain name registries Internet technology companies of Australia Companies based in Melbourne

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