Australia’s Internet community today celebrates a significant milestone with the .au domain namespace surpassing 3 million domain names under management.
The milestone follows strong growth in registrations over the past 13 years and places .au in the top 10 of all countries by volume.
The .au domain namespace is an essential service asset for Australian businesses and plays a critical role in providing a platform for the nation’s digital economy.
Facts about 3 million .au domain names:
- In June 2015, AusRegistry processed 41.2 billion DNS queries for .au domain names. This averages to approximately 1.4 billion DNS queries per day in the .au zone.
- The average length of a .au domain name is 10 to 13 characters. More than 38,000 .au domains are 28 characters or more long, with four domain names recording the maximum length allowable at 63 characters.
- Almost 40 percent of all .au domain names have been registered for between two to six years. Seven percent have been registered for more than 10 years.
- Approximately 86 percent of all .au domain names are registered under .com.au.
- New South Wales accounts for the largest number of .au registrations (1 million), followed by Victoria (800,000) and Queensland (600,000).
- .au domain name registrations grew at a rate of six percent over the past 12 months.
- Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is now available for .au domain names, which is a security extension that facilitates the digital signing of Internet communications, helping to ensure the integrity and authenticity of transmitted data.
