Hi guys

Long time reader, few post :)

just wondering if anyone knows which websites are good to register .com domain names rather than going through MelbourneIT. MelbIT charges $75 per year to register a .com domain o.0

Anywhere else we can do this through?

http://www.godaddy.com/ (lol Danica Patrick lol)
http://www.crazydomains.com.au/

http://jumba.com.au/

www.jumba.com.au

www.enetica.com.au and www.netregistry.com.au

Thanks for the quick response guys!

Man, these websties you gave me charges between $9 - $15 for a 1 year .com registration.

MelbourneIT charges $75 per year...what the!?!?!

they "sell a service", or so they would have you believe

A lot of the cheap domain places you don't actually own the rights to the domain - they do, and can decide to turn your site into a landing page of ads whenever they want. It has happened to me when the registrar went broke, gave it's domains to another company, and they wouldn't renew the domain.
I still use a cheap dodgy one for .coms but .com.au for a business domain I would go melbourneIT or nothing at all.
For example GoDaddy are known for their dodgy handling of accounts, losing people business etc.., read about them on wikipedia.


last edited by thermite at 17:42:22 16/Dec/09

hmm, I would like to own the domain as looking at setting up a company and using the domain as the company website.

The domain register websites given above, anyone have had experiences with them? Netregistry seems like a place to register but CrazyDomains have $9 per year register.

thoughts?

Pay the premium if you're worried.

all my company domains have been done through jumba, they are ace, plus they do all the hosting too for best prices.

for .au's they can't take it away from you, it's registered to your ABN/ACN etc
I have spent considerable time and money securing my .au's

bj.com.au is for sale if anyone wants it, $10k ;)

thats one expensive BJ

been using godaddy for a few years, no issues
for .com.au we use netregistry

tell me what the domain is and i'll register it for you ;)

A lot of the cheap domain places you don't actually own the rights to the domain - they do, and can decide to turn your site into a landing page of ads whenever they want. It has happened to me when the registrar went broke, gave it's domains to another company, and they wouldn't renew the domain.
I still use a cheap dodgy one for .coms but .com.au for a business domain I would go melbourneIT or nothing at all.
For example GoDaddy are known for their dodgy handling of accounts, losing people business etc.., read about them on wikipedia.

thats complete bulls***. i've used godaddy for 100's of names over the years and never had a single problem.

Agreed that is total scare-mongering garbage what thermite said. Regardless of what happens with your registrar you can always chase things down through AUDA because Australian domain names are heavily regulated.

http://www.registerfree.com/

www.jumba.com.au

+1

Jumba for like 2-3 years now. They always have wicked speciasl e.g. cost price domain names

Results 1 - 10 of about 666,000 for go daddy sucks

It's a sign.

Dragonfist.com

Sounds like a german porn site :)

CrazyDomains here (business addresses included). Their back-end is fine, can manage your own s*** easily.

I use CSC to manage around 2000 heineken domains

we pay 12 euro for a .com up to 175 a year for s***ty countries like .cz

not doing your job properly?

http://www.heineken.com.au/ 404

:(

haha we dont manage .com.au yet

infact thats melbourne IT for you we have been chasing them for awhile trying to get that under management/transfered. i'll drop em a line tomorrow so they can see why i should be manageing it

heineken is a big org and countries get to do what they want.. legal have decided that domains fall under central brand management however..

.com.au is 1 of the 50 or so heineken brand domains left that we are still trying to get under central management..

unfortunately no one knows wtf domains are and how they work.. and are scared when i came calling telling them we are taking it over.. they think i want to take over there hosted content.. or think they will lose their site..

we are also trying to centralise content and onboard countries to the heineken.com platform.. but with over 170 countries its a big job

we are looking at around 70 countries next year coming on board though.. i think .au is one of them not 100% sure though..

if .com.au was under our control i would have received a text message already generated from our check scripts to let me know the site was down.. i'm sure aus are aware of it :P




last edited by Superform at 06:05:22 17/Dec/09

If you do it right, NetRegistry will pretty much always allow you to get 50% off domain purchases. Google them rather than going to their site directly and you typically get a 2hr offer, stuff like that, it's really very sneaky what they're doing :(

how's that for helpful, after your first post you're told to get f***ed.

well it'd be all well and good if he wasn't spamming his company on here

the OP asked for good domain registering deals. a deal is a deal.

hey edgeman, GET f***ED!

Ok then... I will. If whoever is in charge around here can remove the post please I'll happily remove my own user account.

Thanks for your thoughful words too.

hey edgeman, GET f***ED!

FYI... have contacted staff to have my account removed, I don't need your crap, and I don't want any part of this if there are people like you around here.

Unfortunately there's no unsubscribe option.

edgeman: it's the internets
learn to get over it, or get off it imo

edgeman: it's the internets
learn to get over it, or get off it imo

opinion noted... and that's why I'm getting off this particular patch of the Internet :-)

No hard feelings against the site or you folks, just don't need it, can do without idiots in my life.

Enjoy!

www.godaddy.com there is also heaps of vouchers out there to get like 20% etc.. do looking for vouchers!

when you find the area of internets where idiots don't exist, can I come with you?

* N U K E D * Reason: Abusive [banned]

Gees if someone stole your wallet, the police returned it and the perp went to gaol, surely you wouldn't say "f*** this society, i'm out" and jump over to china.

Would you?

Well if he was spamming, it's not like he was coming back?
So saying "i'm leaving" is pretty empty.

back from b&
as if he wasn't trawling teh google for pimping situations

that was a very short ban

2hr ban? Intense. What did you do with all that time!?

Yeah, he was trawling. I particularly enjoyed the multiple 'poor me' follow up posts!

Dragonfist, what did you end up going for?

And quick, someone reg that heineken dom...

i wasn't rly all that norty
it was all on principle which i understand

It was a tough call cuz that dude was being a bit of a pill, but we're trying to restrain the volume of harsh criticisms of new users, even when they are being nubcakes

easy fix for that is to stop anyone who uses qgl.* to access the forum, their posts don't show up for anyone using the ausgamers domain

but don't take away our fun

lol at the noob, no one cares if you dont come back and no one cares that you cant delete yourself.. pro tip: no need to post about it - just close your browser and go back to surfin in your safe internets

easy fix for that is to stop anyone who uses qgl.* to access the forum, their posts don't show up for anyone using the ausgamers domain

I don't think that's likely, pretty sure they're still riding the posts from the old trolls at QGL. The green forum would be pretty desolate without the rabids from the blue forum.

I went with CrazyDomains as I am trying to hold the name while I set everything else up. Since it was the cheapest and I can transfer it around when I start to host it. $9 for a .com compared to $75 from MelbourneIT to park a name...

once you register it, it's yours
you don't have to "hold it"

I have plenty of domains that are sitting inactive without even having nameservers active on them

I'm a wholesaler I can hook your negro ass up

I'm a wholesaler I can hook your negro ass up

What he said :P (plus, I'm friendlier)