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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 car tailgate, 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.
- You should consider variations of your domain name to make sure your competitors don’t register names that are very close to yours eg. dynamicwebs.com.au and dynamicwebsolutions.com.au, dynamicwebs.co.nz and dynamicwebsolutions.co.nz. All these variations can point to one web site.
When you register a domain name, it is licensed to you: you do not own it. Dynamic Web Solutions is an authorized reseller of domain names for two large Australian registrars. When we register a domain name on your behalf we use your contact details and your ABN, not ours. This is a requirement of the AUDA.
The Australian domain name regulator's web site is at www.auda.org.au.
See www.auda.org.au/basics for starter information.
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, Dynamic Web Solutions offers this service free for sites it hosts. e.g. vinwire.com.au is the main site, while vintagewiringharness.com is registered and simply
points to vinwire.com.au.
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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