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

Yes, on the evidence of its own storefront: a English interface, .com.au among the namespaces offered, and a AUD price printed with its VAT treatment on 2026-10-26.

Namespaces on its own page

.com.au.au.net.au.org.au.asn.au

What its page printed

Domain Pricing table with the currency selector on "$ AUD" ("Change Currency ($ AUD)"): "com.au HOT! Popular $23.00", "1 Year $0.00" (transfer), "1 Year $23.00" (renewal); the page footer reads "All prices include GST".

Read from https://clients.uptimewebhosting.com.au/domain/pricing on 2026-10-26. 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. On 2026-10-20 the 3 storefronts that could not be read were opened again in a browser that waits longer for pages built by script, reads framed pages and follows a redirect from plain http to https: 3 were read this time, 0 still could not be, and none of those read prints a comparable .com.au price. On 2026-10-26, 3 storefronts were read by hand, looking for a page that states the tax treatment of its .com.au price: 1 were added and 2 re-read, and the number with a comparable .com.au price went from 0 to 3.