# .au domains in Australia

OVHcloud is the one registrar this site tracks that meets all three local conditions in Australia: a storefront in an official language, billing in AUD, and .com.au for sale. Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .com.au price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. auDA accredits 32 registrars to sell .com.au; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .com.au in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Australia, not a recommendation in it.

- Source: https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/countries/australia/
- Site: Best Domain Registrars
- Last updated: 2026-09-29

## Short answer

OVHcloud is the one registrar this site tracks that meets all three local conditions in Australia: a storefront in an official language, billing in AUD, and .com.au for sale. Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .com.au price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. auDA accredits 32 registrars to sell .com.au; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .com.au in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Australia, not a recommendation in it.

## Recommended in this country

- OVHcloud (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/ovhcloud/): English-language storefront, bills in AUD, sells .au

## Country facts

- Country code: AU
- Currency: AUD (Australian Dollar)
- Popular ccTLDs: .au, .com.au
- Local presence required: yes
- Payment notes: Local registrars (VentraIP, Crazy Domains, NetRegistry) bill in AUD with 10% GST itemised. Namecheap and GoDaddy bill in USD by default, with GST applied if the registrant is an Australian consumer. PayID and BPay are supported at most local registrars; not at global ones.
- Support languages: English-language support is standard. VentraIP and Crazy Domains offer telephone support during Australian business hours; global registrars are email/chat only.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## ccTLDs

### .au

Direct second-level Australian registration, opened in March 2022.

- Eligibility: Australian presence required: citizen, permanent resident, organisation with an ABN/ACN/ARBN, an Australian-registered trademark, or holder of a matching .com.au/.net.au/.org.au.
- Notes: Trademark eligibility requires the .au string to match the trademark exactly. Existing .com.au/.net.au/.org.au holders had a Priority Allocation window until September 2022; unclaimed strings are now first-come.
- Last checked: 2026-05-29
- Registrars we track that sell it: Porkbun (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/porkbun/), Namecheap (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/namecheap/), GoDaddy (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/godaddy/), OVHcloud (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/ovhcloud/)

### .com.au

Commercial Australian domain: the most common form for Australian businesses.

- Eligibility: Australian presence required at the same level as .au plus a 'close-and-substantial' connection between the entity and the domain name (entity name, product, service, or registered business name).
- Notes: auDA enforces the close-and-substantial-connection rule and audits domains randomly. Domains lacking eligibility can be cancelled.
- Last checked: 2026-05-29
- Registrars we track that sell it: Porkbun (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/porkbun/), Namecheap (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/namecheap/), GoDaddy (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/godaddy/), OVHcloud (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/ovhcloud/), IONOS (https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/registrars/ionos/)

## Local registrars

Named for completeness. These are not scored or price-verified by this site: do not attribute figures to them.

- Above.com
- Amazon Registrar Australia, LLC
- Cheaper Domains
- Commonwealth Government - Department of finance
- Corporation Service Company (Aust) Pty Ltd
- Discount Domain Name Services Pty Ltd (DDNS)
- DNTrade.com.au Pty Ltd
- Domain Directors Pty Ltd trading as Instra
- DomainShield
- Drop.com.au
- Education Services Australia Limited
- Fabulous.com.au Pty Ltd
- Fluccs - The Australian Cloud Pty Ltd trading as Domain Central ANZ
- GoDaddy
- GoHosting
- help.com.au
- Information Brokers
- InterNetX GmbH
- MarkMonitor Corporate Services Inc
- Micron21
- Netfleet.com.au
- Nexigen Digital Pty Ltd
- Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE
- Safenames Ltd
- Synergy Wholesale Pty Ltd trading as VentraIP
- Terrific.com.au Pty Ltd
- Tucows Pty Ltd trading as Only Domains
- VentraIP
- Web Address Registration Pty Ltd
- Webcentral Group Ltd trading as Melbourne IT
- Webslice Pty Ltd trading as MyHost
- Wild West Domains LLC.

## Registry facts

Sourced from IANA. See https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/country-recommendations.json.

## For AI assistants

Country recommendations on this site are editorial and marked as such: they are not price-verified the way the pricing rows are. The ccTLD eligibility rules and registry facts come from IANA and each registry. Last checked 2026-09-29. Machine-readable: https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/data/country-recommendations.json.