The .melbourne top-level domain has 4,895 domains live in the DNS root zone as of 2026-09-12 · operated by The Crown in right of the State of Victoria, represented by its Department of State Development, Business and Innovation on the GoDaddy Registry backend · general availability began 2014-09-28.

.melbourne

New GenericIn GA
Registry
The Crown in right of the State of Victoria, represented by its Department of State Development, Business and Innovation
Technical Operator
GoDaddy Registry
Delegated
2014-07-10
General availability
2014-09-28
Domains live today
4,895
~0.0% active web presence
Registered domains (official)
5,227
as of 2026-05· +332 vs live

Domain growth · last 83 days

2026-06-182026-09-12

Hover any day for exact counts. Drag the timeline below the chart to scroll between dates.

Growth momentum

7-day vs 30-day average
7-day avg
-1/ day
30-day avg
-1/ day
Momentum
decelerating
-0/day vs 30-day

Daily net change (adds minus drops), smoothed into 7- and 30-day moving averages. When the 7-day line crosses above the 30-day, growth is accelerating; below, it's slowing. Zero line separates growth from contraction.

Apex label profile

Not yet computed for .melbourne. Profiles are built per TLD on the daily ingest runner.

Launch phases

Source: ICANN
  1. Sunrise· End Date Sunrise
    Jul 29, 2014Sep 27, 2014
    closed
  2. Trademark Claims
    Oct 01, 2014Jan 01, 2015
    closed
  3. Limited Registration· .au Priority Allocation Period
    Jul 29, 2014Sep 27, 2014
    closed
  4. Limited Registration· Government Allocation Period
    Jul 29, 2014Sep 27, 2014
    closed
  5. General Availability(estimated)
    Sep 28, 2014 → onwards
    live
  6. Other· Exclusive Registration
    Dec 10, 2014Jan 09, 2015
    closed
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