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IIRC the Australians tried to be '.oz' but now that's gone.
by djbusby 4y ago
IIRC the Australians tried to be '.oz' but now that's gone.
- skissane 4y ago.oz wasn't actually Internet DNS. Australia developed its own domestic inter-university network (ACSnet), running a locally-developed protocol (MHSnet) which was conceptually similar to UUCP, but incompatible with it. [0] In some ways, ACSnet could be compared to BITNET, CSNET, Coloured Book-era JANET, etc. In 1989, AARNet was launched as a replacement for ACSnet, connecting Australia's universities using TCP/IP, and to the global Internet. ACSnet was grandfathered into AARNet, by moving *.oz to *.oz.au. And the oz.au domain still exists, although it has long been closed to new registrants – the main oz.au site I know of which still exists is ftp://munnari.oz.au – an anonymous FTP server (I believe run by the University of Melbourne), most of the contents of which hasn't been touched in years, you might say it is preserved for posterity. Also one individual who somehow has an .oz.au for his personal website http://danny.oz.au/ http://danny.oz.au/ (I think his background in university IT likely explains how he got it) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet see also https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/ https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/
- chrismorgan 4y agoI think the Computer Science department of the University of Melbourne still uses some *.cs.mu.oz.au, though cs.mu.oz.au. itself stopped having any A records some time in the past decade or so. But its name server mulga.cs.mu.oz.au. is certainly still alive.
- skissane 4y agoFound this website, even updated last month: http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ Although it seems their main address is actually http://www.cloudbus.org/ http://www.cloudbus.org/