Instra

Can a member of the public buy a .com.au here?

Not established. .com.au was not among the namespaces on the page read on 2026-09-29. That is a fact about the page we read, not a finding that the registrar does not sell it.

Namespaces on its own page

No namespace list could be read from the page.

What its page printed

The Australia page rendered a title and no price on the page read; the extension page tried (/com-au) answers 404.

Read from https://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/australia-domains on 2026-09-29. A storefront read establishes the language, the currency and the figure the page printed that day. It does not establish support quality, uptime or what a renewal will cost next year.

How the Australia storefronts were read

Eleven of auDA's 32 accredited entities, the retail brands on its public provider directory, plus GoDaddy's Australian storefront, were opened in a real browser on 2026-09-29. Australian retail pages print a dollar figure without naming the currency or the GST treatment (VentraIP, Webcentral), or print no price at all before a search (Cheaper Domains, DDNS, Domain Central, GoHosting, Instra), so no accredited storefront yielded a comparable standing price. Crazy Domains is on the provider directory as a reseller, not on the accredited list, and answered a bot wall in any case. OVHcloud's Australian storefront, which is not auDA-accredited but prints ".com.au A$18.50 EX. GST", is recorded in registrar-locales.json and reaches the Australia page through the eligibility gate. Australia's GST is a 10% value-added tax; vat_rate carries it. On 2026-10-14 the remaining 13 registrars on auDA's list that publish a website were opened, so every registrar on the list with a published website has now been tried: 12 were read, 1 could not be, and 0 more print a comparable .com.au price.