On July 1st 2018, over 3 million .au domain names were transitioned over to a new registry operator, Afilias, with an update to national domain name infrastructure. This is the first major shake up of the Australian online domain space in 15 years, and brings with it some improvements to various aspects of the domain. The move was orchestrated by Afilias Australia Pty Ltd, an Irish based global registry service that has extensive experience, manages over 20 million domains globally, and promises to bring continuous improvements to .au with updated infrastructure in Australia, with new data centres in every state of the country that will allow faster response times for .au names. This move has been planned for over 6 months, and advances several goals of the .au Registry Transformation Project from 2017 (https://www.auda.org.au/industry-information/registry/registry-transformation-project-2017/) which includes maintaining the operational stability,..
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