Until the end of October VentraIP Australia have .courses available for $7.95 per year and .study available for $6.95 per year for a maximum of 10 years at one time per domain name. This deal is for new registrations only, does not apply to transfers or renewals.
Renewals, transfers and the normal registration price for .courses is $54.95 per year and .study is $43.95 per year at VentraIP Australia. So this should give you an idea of ongoing costs but in 10 years who knows if you choose to register your domain name for 10 years.
VentraIP Australia provides all services one would require with a domain name registration for no additional charges included for free.
- DNS Hosting
- URL and Email Forwarding
- ID Protection, Protects your contact information in the WHOIS System.
Promotional Terms:
- Maximum registration period of 10 years.
- Promotion ends 31st October 2016.
- New registrations only, does not include renewal, transfers or redemption restore of the above listed extensions.
Excludes domain names classed as premium by the registry.
I should also point out VentraIP Australia have an issue with their ordering system that doesn't detect if a domain name is marked as premium by the registry — this is a known issue and they supposably working on it. This means your order may go through and you think the registration has been completed but you will be eventually contacted after the registration fails if it's a premium domain to arrange a refund. But, from my understanding this is been fixed in most cases and the domain name should now be displayed as unavailable — that's what happened for me when testing several premium .melbourne and .sydney were shown as unavailable I don't know if this translates across to .courses and .study.
these domains would be great for those rip-off "education" facilities that suck on the government's teat with all the way-too-generous subsidy/grants schemes.