The next gold rush, the guy who owns my last name .com.au won't sell it for love nor money and paid a listing offering it for ~$60,000USD
For example ozbargain.au will be offered to scotty and if he doesn't buy it a squatter will buy it like ozbargains.com.au.
Protect your brand or name from cybersquatters.
It's shorter and those with .com.au domain names using it for email will probably not buy it.
Domains will be available to the public 21st September but if it's uncontested you can consider buying the .com.au, .net.au or .org.au to claim it early
If you are a cheapskate and are happy trying a much smaller site $14.25 recurring saving $0.5 a year: https://www.micron21.com/audirect
.au domain names will be offered to applied current com.au, net.au, org.au owners in 2 days 24/3
Who gets first dibs?
VentraIP selling .au domains to those with priority allocation starting 24th March.
REGISTRATION PRICE
RRP $14.75/yr
$8.67/yr
SAVE 40% for the 1st year
Use the official auDA Priority Status Tool to look up the priority allocation status for a .au direct domain name, as well as review the status for all applicable existing domain names against it. This will help you identify whom the registrant may need to contact and negotiate with to secure a contested .au direct domain name.
The tool will display matching names to the .au direct name with the following labels:
• Priority category 1: Domain names created on or before 4 Feb 2018
• Priority category 2: Domain names created after 4 Feb 2018 and before 24 Mar 2022
Along with one of the following status labels:
• Applied: The registrant has applied for priority status to register the exact match of the name in .au,
• Not applied: Registrant has not yet applied for priority status to register the exact match of the name in .au,
• Declined: Registrant has indicated they either do not wish to register the exact match of the name in the .au namespace or have withdrawn their priority status.
Why is the AuDA website down?
Increased rate of 530 / 1016 errors
Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of an increased rate of 530 / 1016 errors.
We are investigating this issue.
Mar 22, 05:51 UTC
For anyone following along. Registrations open at 1pm AEDT. Unfortunately there is some stuff that you need to keep in mind.
This means that you want to get your name server set immediately and make sure you've got the correct one set and do not change them and wait for a sync event to happen once domains have been added to the zone file they will start resolving.
I'll keep this up-to-date throughout the day.
Updates [1] [2] [3] [4]
Finally Ventra IPis posted a status update concerning this issue https://status.ventraip.com.au/event/1575
Everyone can find the latest information here in regards to these issues and I'll be keeping it up-to-date as new information gets added.
This issue is now resolved. Zone file syncing is now automated again. Name Server update should propagate immediately and not require a sync event to happen.