gov.au 2LD Registrar - List of registered domain names
Ben Fairless made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Finance
Dear Department of Finance,
I am seeking a document that contains a comprehensive list of all domain names registered under the .gov.au second-level domain (2TLD). Specifically, I am interested in the following details for each domain:
1. Domain Name
2. Registration Date
3. Expiry Date
4. Administrative Contact Information
5. Technical Contact Information
To assist in locating the documents I note the below from the domainname.gov.au website:
“Domain registration and administration services are provided via service request forms available on the domainname.gov.au Home page. Gov.au domain name data is passed on to the .au registry operator (Afilias Australia Pty Ltd).”
If it is possible to handle this request administratively without initiating the formal FOI process, I would greatly appreciate your assistance. However, if administrative handling is not feasible, please consider this email as a formal Freedom of Information request.
Understanding the holiday season, I am happy to consent to a 14 day extension of time to process the request as I understand the Department may be operating on skeleton staff.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
Thank you for your email, which has been forwarded to the Department’s FOI
Team for their consideration. A member of the FOI Team will respond to
your email in the next couple of days.
Kind regards
FOI Coordinator
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless
Freedom of Information Request – FOI 23-24/072
Thank you for your email to the Department of Finance (Finance) requesting
access to the following documents under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (FOI Act):
I am seeking a document that contains a comprehensive list of all domain
names registered under the .gov.au second-level domain (2TLD).
Specifically, I am interested in the following details for each domain:
1. Domain Name
2. Registration Date
3. Expiry Date
4. Administrative Contact Information
5. Technical Contact Information
General FOI matters
Your request was received by Finance on 20 December 2023. The statutory
period for processing your request commences from the day after Finance
received your request and a decision is due on Friday 19^th January 2024.
The processing period may be extended if we need to consult third parties,
impose a charge or for other reasons. We will advise you if this happens.
Liability to pay a charge
You will be notified of any charges in relation to your request as soon as
possible, before we process any requested documents or impose a final
charge.
Publication
As required by the FOI Act, any documents provided to you under the FOI
Act will be published on our [1]disclosure log, unless an exemption
applies or the documents are characterised as containing personal
information. Documents will be published the next working day after they
are released to you.
Policy to exclude junior officer contact details, signatures and mobile
phone numbers
Finance has adopted a policy to generally exclude from any documents
released under FOI, the names and contact details of junior staff (non-SES
officers) and staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act
1984 (adviser level and below). Finance has also adopted a policy to
exclude signatures and mobile phone numbers from any documents released
under FOI (unless publicly available). Finance’s preference is to reach
agreement with FOI applicants to exclude these details from the scope of
the request. Where there is no objection, the names and contact details of
junior officers, as well as any signatures and mobile phone numbers
appearing in identified documents, will be redacted under section 22 of
the FOI Act on the basis that these details are irrelevant to the request.
Please contact the FOI Team on the below contact details if you wish to
discuss your request.
Kind regards
FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch
Business Enabling Services
Department of Finance
A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
References
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OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Fairless,
Please see attached a decision letter in relation to your FOI request (our
reference FOI 23-24/072).
Kind regards
FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch
Business Enabling Services
Department of Finance
A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
Dear Department of Finance,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Finance's handling of my FOI request 'gov.au 2LD Registrar - List of registered domain names'.
Applications for a new domain name are submitted at https://www.domainname.gov.au/apply-new-... which is an Australian Government website. The information is not supplied by auDA to the Department - it is departmental information.
Given that applications are submitted to the Department, it should be possible to create a list using the submitted applications (as an option) if you want to go the long way around and not involve auDA.
Furthermore, there is no reference anywhere on https://www.domainname.gov.au regarding confidentiality that I can find.
Please process my FOI request.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/g...
Yours faithfully,
Ben Fairless
Thank you for your email, which has been forwarded to the Department’s FOI
Team for their consideration. A member of the FOI Team will respond to
your email in the next couple of days.
Kind regards
FOI Coordinator
OFFICIAL
Good afternoon Mr Fairless,
Thank you for your request for an internal review of Finance’s decision on
19 January 2024 relating to your FOI request (our ref FOI 23-24/072). Your
FOI request related to information Finance holds regarding a comprehensive
list of all domain names registered under the .gov.au second-level domain.
Please find attached a finalised internal review decision under section
54C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
Kind regards,
FOI team
FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch
Business Enabling Services
Department of Finance
A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603