AusRegistry
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| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | Melbourne, Australia, 2000 |
| Founder(s): | Adrian Kinderis |
| Ownership: | AusRegistry Group |
| Headquarters: | Level 8 10 Queens Road Melbourne, VIC 3004[1] |
| Country: | Australia |
| Businesses: | ARI Registry Services, International Division |
| Employees: | 11-50 |
| Website: | ausregistry.com.au |
| Twitter: |  @ausregistryint
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| 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. [2] It was the first commercial Internet registry in Australia.[3]
History
AusRegistry was founded in 2000 and has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia; it was initially founded under the name RegistrarsAsia Pty Ltd. (now AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd.).[4] 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, the .au ccTLD manager, 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[5], which both parties announced in February, 2009.
Given that AusRegistry manages all SLDs in Australia, is involved with the ccTLD itself, and the IT infrastructure for primary name and WhoIs servers within the .au namespace, it effectively runs much of the Internet in Australia. auDA and AusRegistry acknowledged the important roles they both play in promoting the Internet in Australia when the .au registration number hit 2 million in March, 2011.[6]
International Development and Expansion
AusRegistry's International subsidiary, ARI Registry Services, has provided registry services and consultation for a number of ccTLDs, and IDNs, and has been asserting itself in the new gTLD space as well.
International Division
AusRegistry Pty Group's International subsidiary, AusRegistry International, rebranded itself as of October, 2011 to ARI Registry Services. The move was made to enhance its image abroad, and dispel the preoccupations that working with an Australian company meant uncertainty and risks for a non-Australian organization. Along with the rebranding annoucnement, ARI also announced that it would be the first registry to offer its customers the choice between two primary locations for the operation of a TLD registry. Establishing its location outside of Australia involved deploying registry infrastructure and resources to the United States.[7] Prior to the move, ARI already had an office in the United States, and clients on 4 continents; still, the AUS prefix was not amenable to global expansion and recognition.[8]
Interesting Facts about AusRegistry
AusRegistry, under contract to the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator, a statutory authority founded to manage the Australian Government's Renewable Energy Act of 2000[9], is the operator of the Renewable Energy Certificates Registry.[10]
On October 10th, 2010, AusRegistry 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.[11] They hit the 2 million mark in March, 2011.[12]
Awards and Achievements
- 2002 Australian IT&T award
- 2003 MYOB/Telstra Victorian Government Small Business Award
- AusRegistry was the first registry in the world to fully implement, and go live with the EPP Protocol.[13]
Affiliations
In 2010, Iron Mountain and AusRegistry signed a co-referral plan related to the new gTLD process. The plan calls for Iron Mountain to refer its clients looking to register as new gTLD registry operators to Ausregistry, while AusRegistry would refer those clients looking for data escrow services to Iron Mountain.[14]
References
- ↑ AusRegistry on LinkedIn
- ↑ AusRegistry Pty Ltd. About AusRegistry
- ↑ Ausregistry.com
- ↑ About AusRegistry
- ↑ auDA extends AusRegistry's .au registry term to 2014
- ↑ iTWire.com
- ↑ Global Rebrand, ARIServices.com
- ↑ AusRegistry drops the Aus, DomainIncite.com
- ↑ ComLaw Act Compilations - Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 (174)
- ↑ What is the REC registry?
- ↑ AusRegistry EOM Report for General Release
- ↑ iTWire.com
- ↑ Ausregistry.com
- ↑ IronMountain.com