What type of domain name would be best?
Most Australian businesses operating
exclusively within Australia will need to register a .com.au
or .net.au domain name.
Organisations/Associations within Australia
should register a .org.au or .asn.au domain name.
Educational institutions should use .edu.au
and government .gov.au
Private individuals may register .id.au
for email forwarding and personal websites.
Businesses and organisations operating internationally
or targeting international markets only should consider
.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info.
Anyone may register a .name domain name.
This is used in the format joe@bloggs.name and is used only
for email forwarding to your existing email box. It gives
you one email address for life so you don't have the problem
of changing your email address with companies, acquaintances,
on cards, stationery etc. whenever you change service providers.
What are the rules governing domain names?
.com.au domain names
The domain name for your general website must be derived
from a business name or a legal trading name. If you cannot
derive the domain name from your business name directly,
you should set up a trading name to allow you to use your
companies ABN to conform to this restriction. The web site
at http://www.abr.gov.au/ provides information and a simple
form to facilitate this.
- for registration we will request an ABN, ACN or RBN
and the company or business name associated with the particular
ABN, ACN or RBN
- you can use either your complete company name, or an
abbreviation but the domain name derived from the characters
contained in the commercial name or a trading name are
given preference
- the name must be between 2 and 63 characters in length
- hyphens may be used to separate words
- Australian place names or their common abbreviations
are allowed but must be ordered as package of all variations
of the same place name.
- commercial categories or sectors. i.e. generic names
are generally not allowed.
- you cannot use offensive or obscene words or names.
Alternative rule
Businesses may register domain names for their
directly associated products or specialty sites instead
of using a derivation of their business name.
.com, .net, .org, .info Domain Names
Only a few rules must be followed when registering these
domain names:
- Your domain name must always begin and end with either
a letter or number.
- Your domain name may not exceed 63 characters. This
does not include the .com, .net or .org etc. extension
at the end.
- Hyphens are the only acceptable non-letter/number character
to include in your domain name. Other characters, such
as exclaimation marks and underscores, are not permitted.
Note: domain names are not case sensitive.
I've already got a domain name. How can I take advantage
of your prices?
Simply by transferring your domain name to our registrar,
TPP Internet.
All you need to do is fill out the transfer form and we'll
do the rest. It doesn't matter if your domain name has just
been registered or is due for renewal it costs you
nothing to transfer .au or .nz domain names. The
big advantage to you is that, unlike most service providers,
we don't charge management fees or delegation fees on top
of the registration fees.
