MelbourneIT
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Registrar, Hosting |
| Founded: | Australia (1996) |
| Headquarters: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Employees: | 690+ |
| Revenue: | $200.1 million (AUD) (2009) |
| Website: | http://www.melbourneit.com.au/ |
| Key People | |
| Theo Hnarakis, CEO & MD Daniel Bennett , EVP | |
MelbourneITis a web hosting and internet domain register company which also provides related online business solutions products and services. This Australain company was founded in 1996 by The University of Melbourne to work with the private sector on IT projects. [1]
As a domain registrar, MelbourneIT had a de facto monopoly on '.au' domain for several years and it was the source of half of its profit. It was one of the first five testbed Registrars for the competitive Shared Registry System announced by ICANN in 1999 and started register domain names under .com, .net and .org .[2]
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