Hi Peter, I recently purchased a .org.au domain from Netregistry <http://www.netregistry.com.au/> It all went very well and everything seems to work as it should.
They had a special at the time - so it cost me all of $8.25 for two years registration - though come renewal time it will be back to their normal rate (currently $13.75 for 2 years). I notice that, at present, they still seem to have their specials on - it presents itself as a special, Web only 40% discount for the next 2 hours - with a timer counting down the 2 hours. Note that the $8.25 was only for .org.au domains - other .au domains are more expensive but the 40% of applies across them all. Also, I seem to remember when I purchased this that I was looking at various other options and the 2 hour special expired - however I had no real problem making a fresh start and triggering a new "2 hour window" - I can't remember whether I just used another browser (Safari instead of Firefox) or whether I stayed in Firefox and just cleared the cache and any Netregistry cookies. Also note that there is no requirement to stay with the same registrar - if down the track you find a registrar who you prefer for whatever reason (price etc) you can transfer your domain registration from one registrar to another (just don't let it expire!) - however I believe some registrars make this easier than others - that is one thing that impressed me about Netregistry - they seem to give you all the tools to do all this up front (with some set-ups you might have to "request" to make the transfer) which lead me to suspect/hope that they rely on you staying with them because of their service - time will tell. Note also that there are various restrictions on .au categories such as .org.au and .com.au (whereas these restrictions are not applied to general .com or .org domain names). If you are going for a non-Australian (eg .com) domain rather than a .au domain then you have a much larger choice of registrars and prices - but I have no particular recommendations - the Whirlpool forums might be a good place to start, eg: <http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=160491> WARNING - 15 pages of personal opinions;) HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/1/10 10:24 PM, Peter Curtis at pcur...@aapt.net.au wrote: > > Hi all > Having given this due consideration I intend to proceed down this route, can > you recommend a good domain registrar (in Australia?) Questions arise as to > how to know if a registrar is reliable or not?. Also and/or point me in the > direction of some further information for a basic computer user on this > subject? > Thanks > Peter > On 31/12/2009, at 11:12 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
