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Fun fact: the CSIRO is the only Australian organisation to have a 2nd level domain name, lacking the .com and just using .au. This is because they were the first organisation to use a domain name in Australia and got in before the regulation specified it to be .{com|gov|edu|etc}.au


That is a surprisingly fun fact.




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