auDA just let us know that they have hit 4,000,000 million domain names under management, where the huge growth has been from direct .au domain registrations that has now surpassed 500,000 direct .au domains.
We wrote when direct .au hit 300k so this influx of registrations has made auDA rather happy.
One more interesting stat is that only 6,530 direct .au names are contested. That is more than one extension paid for the application token. Half of those are due to .gov applications which we feel is a clear breach of their duties and a total waste to tax payer funds, so we hope that they will go an reject their own applications in the near future.
