.au (Australian) com.au, net.au, org.au, id.au, asn,au: To change the registrant (ownership) of your .au name name, Domain Central must reset your domain licence.
This effectively means your 2 year .au registration period starts from the day it's reset, and any previous registration period will be lost.
For information about the fees please download the Change of Registrant Kit. (If this link does not work in your browser you can navigate directly to http://www.domaincentral.com.au/pdf/).
Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD): com, net, org, info, biz: There are no fees however, we do add a year to the licence period so the new registrant must pay for this extra year.
.nz (New Zealand): There are no fees however, we do add a year to the licence period so the new registrant must pay for this extra year.
.uk (United Kingdom):You submit a change of registrant directly at the .uk registry. Please visit http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/maintain/transfer/. and submit the required documents.
Protect your web presence
Have you considered registering your .com, .com.au, .net.au, .co.nz variants of your domain? The deciding factor usually depends on how serious you are about Protecting Your Online Value. Ask yourself whether it would disturb you if a competitor registered these domains? Our easy to use and reliable Web and Email Forwarding services allow you to point as many domains as you want to your website.
Web with benefits:
Another benefit of registering multiple domains is the greater probability of being located on Search Engine listings. An interesting fact is that many Search Engines now feature region specific searches. You can perform a generic search, or you can select the 'Search Australia Only' option.
How the search works is simple; an 'Australian Only' search may prioritise addresses that end in '.au'; a 'New Zealand Only' search may prioritise addresses that end in '.nz'. To guarantee your website is listed and accessed by both regions you will need to have both domain names registered.
In contrast to the above, neither the '.au' nor the '.nz' domains will stand a chance of competing against the '.com', or rather the TLD name space, if someone submits a generic search with no regions specified.
If you currently conduct business in other countries, or one day plan to expand then we recommend securing your country specific domains now. |
