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 Bruce Tonkin | |
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]. MelbourneIT listed on Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) from December 1999.[2].
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 .[3]
Head quartered in Sydney, Australia, MelbourneIT has 18 offices in 10 countries and over 690 employees worldwide. [4]. As of October 25, 2010, MelbourneIT has about 4,291,483 domain names registered under its management. [5].
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