As a domain registrar, MelbourneIT had a de facto monopoly on the [[.au]] domain for several years; and it was the source of half of its net income. It was one of the first five [[Testbed Registrars]] for the competitive [[SRS|Shared Registry System]] announced by [[ICANN]] in 1999. Melbourne IT started to register domain names under [[.com]], [[.net]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.wallonie-isoc.org/Internet_Documents-en-francais/Hobbes_Internet-Timeline_trad.htm Robert H'obbes' Internet Timeline]</ref> | As a domain registrar, MelbourneIT had a de facto monopoly on the [[.au]] domain for several years; and it was the source of half of its net income. It was one of the first five [[Testbed Registrars]] for the competitive [[SRS|Shared Registry System]] announced by [[ICANN]] in 1999. Melbourne IT started to register domain names under [[.com]], [[.net]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.wallonie-isoc.org/Internet_Documents-en-francais/Hobbes_Internet-Timeline_trad.htm Robert H'obbes' Internet Timeline]</ref> |