Sydney Royal Easter Show Website uses ASP.NET

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My kids made me go look at the Sydney Royal Easter Show website, because they wanted to know some facts and figures about when, what etc.

As I was surfing around, I noticed the old .ASPX extenstion and got really excited - yes I am easily excited!

I am a nosey person, so I checked the HTTP headers, as one does, to find out some more.

The server returned the following response headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 07:48:34 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Connection: close
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=kwv2kpi1uu4d5dziobw15055; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 16486

Then, time to do a WHOIS search

WhoIS Information for domain : eastershow.com.au

 Domain Name:             eastershow.com.au
Last Modified:           09-Sep-2002 01:09:14 UTC
Registrar ID:            R00010-AR
Registrar Name:          Melbourne IT
Status:                  ok

Registrant:              Eastershow
Registrant ID:           OTHER None given

Registrant ROID:         C0962392-AR
Registrant Contact Name: Phillip Blom
Registrant Email:        pblom@rasnsw.com.au

Tech ID:                 C0962392-AR
Tech Name:               Phillip Blom
Tech Email:              pblom@rasnsw.com.au

Name Server:             ns1.telstra.net
Name Server:             ns0.telstra.net

And we need to do a TraceRt as well

Tracing route to www.eastershow.com.au [203.41.182.5]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.21.0.1
3 10 ms 27 ms 9 ms sbr4-ge1.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.53.1]
4 25 ms 11 ms 10 ms mas1-pos4-1.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.192.57]
  5 13 ms 13 ms 17 ms gig5-0-0.sn3.optus.net.au [61.88.136.1]
6 12 ms 9 ms 13 ms gig5-0-0.sn3.optus.net.au [61.88.136.1]
7 31 ms 26 ms 26 ms GigEth1-0-0.mn1.optus.net.au [202.139.188.3]
8 31 ms 36 ms 40 ms Pos-5-1-0.lon42.melbourne.telstra.net [139.130.6.25]
9 25 ms 26 ms 31 ms 10GigabitEthernet9-0.win-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.79.129]
10 35 ms 26 ms 25 ms Pos2-0.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.165]
11 25 ms * * GigabitEthernet1-1.chw30.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.19.168]

Ahh, the explains why its IIS5, it's hosted by Telstra!

And the site was developed by Secure Interactive, a local Sydney company. I don't know of these guys, but looks like they do some cool stuff.