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AusRegistry secured a four year contract to operate the domain name registry for [[auDA]], in 2002. A second four year period was obtained in 2005, with the contract beginning in June of 2006. The [[.au]] Registry Licence Agreement that [[auDA]] has with AusRegistry was subsequently extended until 2014<ref>[http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-26022009/ auDA extends AusRegistry's .au registry term to 2014]</ref>, which both parties announced in February, 2009.
AusRegistry secured a four year contract to operate the domain name registry for [[auDA]], in 2002. A second four year period was obtained in 2005, with the contract beginning in June of 2006. The [[.au]] Registry Licence Agreement that [[auDA]] has with AusRegistry was subsequently extended until 2014<ref>[http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-26022009/ auDA extends AusRegistry's .au registry term to 2014]</ref>, which both parties announced in February, 2009.
Given that AusRegistry manages all [[SLD]]s in Australia, the [[ccTLD]] itself, and the IT infrastructure for primary name and WhoIs servers within the .au namespace, they effectively run the Internet in Australia. They also have become the domain managers for smaller nations in the region.<ref>[http://www.ausregistry.com.au/corporate.php Ausregistry.com]</ref>
== Interesting facts about AusRegistry ==
== Interesting facts about AusRegistry ==