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Domain Names
A domain name is your name on the web. It is the
part of your web address that comes after the www. Your domain name will also be used after the "@"
symbol in your email addresses. Therefore it is important to register a name the closely reflects your business
name and is easy for people to remember and type. Registering a domain name is the first step in any online
enterprise.
Domain Name Registration
$88.00 (for the first 2 years) for .com.au names OR $49.50 (for the first year)
for .com names. This price includes domain name delegation.
Your domain name should:
- Reflect your actual business name. Your ABN is required to register a .com.au domain name. Today
however, you can register variations of your business name.
- Be short, so it can be remembered easily if seen on a TV ad, bus side or web site that wasn't bookmarked.
Also, the shorter your domain name, the less likely it is to be mis-keyed in the browser address field.
- Your domain name shouldn't have any weird characters like the ~ (tilde) or / (forward slash) as newer
Internet users can not find these easily on their keyboard.
Technically when you register a domain name, it is licensed to you: you do not own it. When DWS registers
a domain on your behalf the registry information is forwarded to you. DWS also does the delegation at
the time of registration (i.e. points the domain name to the server that will host the site).
The Australian domain name regulator's web site is at www.auda.org.au.
See www.auda.org.au/basics for starter information.
Domain Names> Start Here:
Start here to register
your new domain name.
Domain Name Parking
$0 per month
Domain name parking is where you have more than one domain name and you want one domain name simply to
point to another. Providing there is no data transfer involved, DWS offers this service free for sites
it hosts. e.g. vinwire.com.au is the main site, while vintagewiring.com is registered and simply points
to vinwire.com.
People often register more than one variation of their domain name to stop competitors getting it and
to capture traffic from addresses that people may try to guess.
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