.au - Australia's Home On The Internet
The .au Domain Administration (auDA), AusRegistry and Deloitte Access Economics have released the first ever report into the economic value and impact of .au web addresses. The report found the .au domain name space contributed $475 million to the Australian economy last year and created more than 4300 full-time jobs. The report also found:
- There has been exponential growth in the number of registered .au domain names over the last decade - reaching a total of 2.3 million in 2011 - a 600% increase since 2002
- Almost 60,000 new .au domains are being registered every month
- 85% of .au registrations were under the .com.au namespace – followed by .net.au and .org.au
- Registration and hosting of .au domains accounted for 57%, or $269 million of the total contribution to Australia's economy
