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1. Abbywinters.com – Abbywinters. com is a pornographic paysite largely revolving around nude modelling pictorials and lesbian and solo sex acts by female models. It claims all-female shooting crews and prides itself on being at the forefront of the natural, the site was launched in the year 2000 and has since been split into three mini-sites known as Solo, Girl-Girl, and Intimate Moments. Abby Winters originated as an Australian site with Australian participants and employees and it is now based in Amsterdam and intermixes its extensive Australian material, with new material shot since its move. Models wear very little make-up and many have a patch of pubic hair. In addition, the claims that its photos are not retouched in any way. Abbywinters. com in January 2008, had about 30,000 subscribers, despite its history as an Australian site and its enduringly close association with that country, 65% of Abby Winters subscribers are in the United States. In 2010, responding to a political climate in the Australian government on the question of pornographys acceptability in the country. Prior to that relocation, the web servers had already been based in the Netherlands. The website features female models typically between the ages 18 to 25, with the exception of those who are long-time employees of the organisation, of which there are only a small number, almost all Abby Winters models are completely new to pornography. In photo-based shoots the women are photographed in their own homes and bedrooms and/or in outdoor settings, and usually begin wearing their own clothes and underwear, by 2009 there were 1200 models featured on the site, with more than 370,000 images and almost 4000 videos. New content was uploaded twice daily, wired. com writer Regina Lynn claims that the site portrays sex more realistically than most pornography. Customers are able to suggest scenarios on the forum which are sometimes filmed. After establishing a rough scenario for each shoot the team then lets the performers decide how fast the scene progresses. It is claimed that all scenes are filmed by women, some of whom have previously modelled for the site, models are paid approximately US$500 for a solo masturbation scene, and US$800 for a sex scene with another model. In 2003/04, Abbywinters. com deviated from featuring only girl/girl sex by filming six boy/girl scenes, all were claimed to be real couples and, as with the females, the males were amateurs. The site featured a scene in May 2011 and after December 2011 featured one boy/girl release per month. com material. Today on the website the Abby Winters fictional backstory remains prominent, there is no mention that Garion Hall was the founder of Abbywinters. com, and also the founder and CEO of the companys interrelated companies such as GMBill, which is the sites payment service. The company, having moved from Australia and now owned and operated by Dutch company Abbywinters
2. Airtasker – Airtasker is a Sydney-based Australian company which provides an online and mobile marketplace enabling users to outsource everyday tasks. Users describe the task and indicate a budget, community members then bid to complete the task, Airtasker was founded in 2012 by Australian entrepreneurs Tim Fung and Jonathan Lui and has raised AUD $3.5 million to date. At the time, Tim and Jonathan were working as part of the team of mobile startup Amaysim and understood the potential in the local. The team successfully raised AUD $1.5 million two months after launch and began expanding its offering to cater for businesses as well as individuals, the company acquired local Australian rival TaskBox for an undisclosed sum in February 2013. Airtasker announced a partnership with Australian jobs listing website CareerOne in July 2013 which gave the platform further exposure to the jobs market. By late 2013 Airtasker had closed a second round of funding raising a further AUD $2 million, bringing total investment in the company to AUD $3.5 million and valuing it at $10 million. The Airtasker process begins when a user posts a job they need completed, other users can post their interest in completing the task along with their own suggestion on the payment amount. The user who posted the task can make a decision on whom to award the task based on the profile, task history. Once this decision is made, the Airtasker platform allows private communication and it is free for users and applicants to join Airtasker, however, once a task is successfully completed and paid, there is a 15% commission charged to the applicant per task. Airtasker raised AUD $1.5 million, acquired 45,000 users, by November 2013 the company had raised a further AUD $2 million for a total of $3.5 million in funds raised, valuing the company at AUD $10 million
3. Anime News Network – Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the world. Founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, the claims to be the leading English-language source for news and information about anime. The site operated, until 2008 the magazine Protoculture Addicts, the website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, current CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the editorial staff. In January 2007, ANN launched a version for Australian audiences. On July 4,2008, ANN launched its platform with a library of anime trailers as well as its own news show ANNtv. In the fall of 2004, the staff at ANN became formally involved with the anime magazine Protoculture Addicts. On September 7,2004, the Sci Fi Channel online newsletter Sci Fi Weekly named the site the Web Site of the Week. The website maintains a listing of anime and manga titles, as well as people and companies involved in the production of those titles, staff members of ANN also publish their own blogs hosted on the site. ANN also hosts forums, and includes threads to accompany each news item for purposes of discussion, anime News Network hosts an IRC channel on the WorldIRC network, #animenewsnetwork
4. AusGamers – AusGamers is a gaming website based in Australia which provides gaming news, review and other services. It was created by Mammoth Media and its mission statement is To create an Australian go to gaming information site. The idea for Ausgamers was a view to further serve the Australian games community through both online activities and LAN party events. MCVPacific said AusGamers is one of Australias longest running online gaming publications, surviving the first dot-com crash, hosting LAN events and building itself into a one-stop files source. The sites About Page explains AusGamers has existed in various forms since 1996, in 1999, it was formally established as a company, with a view to further serving the Australian games community through both online activities and LAN events. AusGamers is one of Australia’s longest running and most successful gaming sites with many affiliated websites, the site also attracts international users wanting fast downloads and an extensive files archive. More than 30 terabytes are downloaded from AusGamers servers in a typical month, in September 2014, AusGamers relaunched its website and redesigned its logo. MCV Pacific said AusGamers also recently cut ties with media agency MCN in favour of working with You Know Media, official website AusGamers in Virtual Nation, The Internet in Australia
5. AusRegistry – AusRegistry is a Melbourne, Australia based company that specialises in domain name registry services. AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial. au domain names including. com. au and. net. au and it doesnt provide any services to the general public. In 2002, after a tender, AusRegistry was awarded a four-year contract to operate the domain name registry for auDA. In 2005, after another open tender, AusRegistry was once selected to be the registry operator for a second four-year period commencing on 1 July 2006. Controversially, in February 2009 auDA announced that it had extended its. au Registry Licence Agreement with Ausregistry until 2014 without a tender bid. A2012 report found that 99% of registered domains where within the. com. au. net. au, AusRegistrys TLD registry is compliant with the latest Extensible Provisioning Protocol standards and was one of the first to offer rapid DNS updating in ccTLD zone files. AusRegistry International is a subsidiary of AusRegistry that provides domain name registry services outside of Australia, in 2005, AusRegistry International was awarded the tender to re-develop and manage the REC Registry system until 2010. The REC registry currently manages over 13.5 million objects within stringent SLAs covering availability, adrian Kinderis is the CEO of AusRegistry Pty Ltd. Internet in Australia Official website AusRegistry International - official International site, auDA extends AusRegistrys. au registry term to 2014 REC Registry Web Site Australian registry whois