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| logo            = AusRegistryLogo.png
| logo            = AusRegistryLogo.png
| type            = Privately Held
| type            = Privately Held
| industry        = domain registrar
| industry        = Registrar
| founded        = Melbourne, Australia (January 2000)
| founded        = Melbourne, Australia, 2000
| founder        = Adrian Kinderis
| founders        = [[Adrian Kinderis]]
| headquarters    = Level 8 10 Queens Road <br>
| ownership      =
Melbourne, VIC 3004 <br>
| headquarters    = Level 8 10 Queens Road <br>Melbourne, VIC 3004[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ausregistry AusRegistry on LinkedIn]</ref>
Australia <br>
Phone: 61 3 9866 3710 <br>
Fax: 61 3 9866 1970 <ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ausregistry AusRegistry on LinkedIn]</ref>
| country        = Australia
| country        = Australia
| businesses      =
| products        =
| employees      = 11-50
| employees      = 11-50
| website        = http://www.ausregistry.com.au
| revenue        =
| website        = [http://www.ausregistry.com.au ausregistry.com.au]
| blog            =
| facebook        =
| linkedin        =
| twitter        = ausregistryint
| twitter        = ausregistryint
| keypeople      = [[Adrian Kinderis]], CEO <ref>[http://icannwiki.org/Adrian_Kinderis Adrian Kinderis]</ref> <br>
| keypeople      = [[Adrian Kinderis]], CEO<br>
Krista Papac, CSO <ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100913_ausregistry_international_krista_papac_as_chief_strategy_officer/ AusRegistry International Appoints Krista Papac as Chief Strategy Officer]</ref>
[[Krista Papac]], CSO
}}
}}



Revision as of 06:52, 12 April 2011

Type: Privately Held
Industry: Registrar
Founded: Melbourne, Australia, 2000
Founder(s): Adrian Kinderis
Headquarters: Level 8 10 Queens Road
Melbourne, VIC 3004AusRegistry on LinkedIn</ref>
Country: Australia
Employees: 11-50
Website: ausregistry.com.au
Twitter: @ausregistryint
Key People
Adrian Kinderis, CEO

Krista Papac, CSO

AusRegistry is the registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial Australian domains (.au) including .net.au and .com.au as well as non commercial Australian domain names like .edu.au and .gov.au. [1]

History

AusRegistry was founded in 2000 and has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. AusRegistry was initially founded under the name RegistrarsAsia Pty Ltd. (now AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd.).[2] AusRegistry Pty Ltd. is a subsidiary of the AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd. which was founded in December, 2001.

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, beginning in June of 2006. The .au Registry Licence Agreement that auDA has with AusRegistry was extended until 2014[3], which both parties announced in February, 2009.

Interesting facts about AusRegistry

AusRegistry has a subsidiary, named AusRegistry International, that allows for people outside Australia to buy .au domain names.

AusRegistry, under contract to the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER), a statutory authority founded to manage the Australian Government's Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000[4], is the operator of the Renewable Energy Certificates Registry.[5]

On October 10th, 2010, AusRegistry ma reported that there were currently over 1.8 million .au domains registered and over 1.6 million .com.au domains registered. The total number of .au and .com.au registered domains grew constantly since 2008 by about 300,000 new domains each year.[6]

Awards

  • 2002 Australian IT&T award
  • 2003 MYOB/Telstra Victorian Government Small Business Award

References

External links

AusRegistry Group official website
AusRegistry official website
AusRegistry International official website