AUNIC Changes

info.au DNS delegation problem fixed

2006-08-04

There were some problems with logic used by the forms for DNS consistency checks with (re)delegation of DNS servers.

Some problematic tests have been skipped, but the form should now work correctly, at least if your DNS servers are valid.

If you have been trying to submit a delegation change for info.au (or dropbear.id.au), then please try again.

aunic machine replaced

2004-03-09

The aunic service is reborn on a new machine. For details see Problems and outages.

2004-02-14

The aunic machine box2.aunic.net was suffering from serious hardware problems.

edu.au transition to AusRegistry

2003-06-06

edu.au will be closed for domain updates through AUNIC from Friday 6 June 2003. Shortly thereafter, the edu.au registry will be moved from AUNIC to AusRegistry, and should open under the new system the following week. For details see edu.au transition notice.

2003-01-22

The domain delegation form (which is now only used for edu.au, dropbear.id.au, and info.au) has been updated to allow omission of IP addresses of name servers, unless they are inside the domain itself, as long as the IP address is currently visible in the DNS.

2002-07-25

PLEASE NOTE: The administration of .gov.au domain was transitioned to the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) around 1 August 2002.

Gov.au registration services are now at www.domainname.gov.au.

Transition to AusRegistry

2002-07-01

AusRegistry Go Live with asn.au, com.au, id.au, net.au, org.au.
For more details on this transition, please see see auDA's New Regime announcement.

2002-06-28

AUNIC services relating to com.au (eg: registration, delegation) disabled.
All .com.au services (including domain name modifications, registrations and redelegations) will be disabled and therefore unavailable due to transition to the new .au registry AT 12.00 (Noon) AEST June 28, 2002 from this site (AUNIC) and via the Melbourne IT (Internet Names WorldWide (INWW) or Internet Names Australia (INA) web sites UNTIL 8.00am AEST Monday July 1, 2002
com.au DNS servers scheduled to change to AusRegistry servers.

2002-06-26

AUNIC services relating to org.au (eg: registration, delegation) disabled.

2002-06-25

net.au DNS servers changed to AusRegistry servers.

2002-06-24

org.au DNS servers changed to AusRegistry servers.

2002-06-20

asn.au DNS servers changed to AusRegistry servers.

2002-05-27

id.au DNS servers changed to AusRegistry servers.

Old Changes

AUNIC services were moved on 3 June 2001 to a new server machine in Sydney provided and hosted by NetRegistry. (Services were later moved to a server hosted at Optus.)

This rectified the problems of slowness that were seen earlier in 2001.

Please ensure that you do not have any references to aunic.telstra.net, box1.aunic.net, or IP addresses. You should only refer to www.aunic.net (for html pages) or cgi.aunic.net (for cgi scripts, if you have permission to do that).

Changes will be posted here as they occur or are scheduled.

3 June 2001

Switched to use first new NetRegistry machine (box1).

5 August 2001

Old 203.* IP address records (networks) removed from whois.aunic.net.

19 August 2001

Second new machine (box2 at Optus) was put into production, with AUNIC downtime Sunday 11:00-11:50. Most AUNIC services now run from box2 rather than box1.

28 September 2001

Finished re-configuring box1 as a test environment (for registrars).

2 October 2001

Moved autodns from box1 to box2, completing the final transition of remaining production services to box2 at Optus.

3 October 2001

Passwords changed on box2.

10-11 October 2001

NetRegistry advertising removed from box2.

29-30 January 2002

org.au has been moved to AUNIC.
Delegations requests are now handled by autodns (like edu.au and gov.au).
If you have a delegation request submitted before Jan 26 which has not happened, please re-submit it. There is no need to re-submit registration requests, these are still pending.

In addition, the Network function for 203.0.0.0 - 203.63.255.255 IP address was transferred from AUNIC to APNIC, mostly around 1 June 2001. AUNIC does not have any information about IP addresses now.