Of interest to this list is the (incomplete) list of 41 registrars who
applied to the IPOC (ex-IAHC) for .com, .edu, .org etc - only Melbourne
IT and Leni's Top Level Registries are Australian:

http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/reg-results.html

And here's a story from TechWire about it:

http://192.215.107.71/wire/news/1997/10/1017reg.html

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