• You should grab it to protect your business name and brand.

• It’s a very small cost for your brand protection and authentic branding.

• A .au direct domain will protect your business name and brand. After 20 September 2022 all .au domain options will be released to the general marketplace. This means that if you haven’t claimed your domain, then it’s open for anyone else to claim and use.

• You can redirect any of your existing domains to your .au direct domain, vice versa if you like the traditional name. It’s a very small cost for brand protection and trusted, authentic Australian branding.

• Yes!, the new .au direct domain will complement the existing suit of Australians domains such as .com.au, edu.au, gov.au.

• The price for .au direct domain name will be $14.90/year

• To be eligible you must have an “Australian Presence”

• If you already own a .com.au domain, you can have preference when you register the new direct .au domain associated with that domain. For instance, existing “yourdomain.com.au” or “yourdomain.net.au”, can have a preference for “yourdomain.au”

• If someone else also has an existing .au extension associated with the same domain as you, then there is a chance of a conflict. An example of this would be if you have "yourdomainname.com.au" and someone else has "yourdomainname.net.au".

• If there is no conflict, you will be able to register your new .au as soon as the application opens (24 March 2022).

• If there is a conflict, anyone eligible for new .au domain will have 6-months to register their interest from when the application opens

• Submit your interest and we will keep you up to date to make sure you are able to secure your new .au direct domain.

By being any one of the following:

1. A Sole Trader, Partnership, Company, Charity, Association or Trust with a current ABN or ACN.

2. A permanent Australian resident or citizen.

3. You are a foreign business with an Australian trademark application or registration.

• If there are a Category 1 applicant (being applicants whose domain name was registered before 4 February 2018) and a Category 2 applicant (being applicants whose domain name was registered after 4 February 2018), Category 1 will have priority over Category 2.

• If there are multiple Category 1 applicants, applicants must agree on allocation.

• If only Category 2 applicants apply, the name will be allocated to the applicant with the earliest domain creation date.

• Where there are multiple applicants with first priority, the applicants will be directed to negotiate with each other, and the domain name will be allocated on agreement between the parties.

• For example, as the owner of onlineiseasy.com.au domain name since we began in 2014, Online is Easy will have priority Category 1 to register onlineiseasy.au.

• auDA, the governing body for Australian domain names, has announced that applications will open from 24th March 2022.

• auDA provides a priority status tool which you can use to validate the status of your domain name.

• If you have a 3ld.au domain: double check that all your information on the console is correct on the related domain information. If you need help in updating anything, please let us know.

• If you want a specific 2ld.au domain and it's not already registered in your 3ld.au, then we recommend you consider registering the 3ld now to give you a priority right.

• If you have other .au domains elsewhere, we suggest you consider transferring your domains to Online is Easy.

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Matthew owns a business name registration for “Good Coffee”. He wants to register the domain name “goodcoffee.com.au”, but discovers that it is registered to “John McBride”, who uses a Sole Trader ABN and trades under the name “Good Coffee Pty Ltd”. Matthew is upset as he feels that he should be the owner of the domain, rather than John.

In this situation, John is eligible to hold the registration of goodcoffee.com.au, as he has a close and substantial connection to the domain name. He was first to register the domain, and as long as he continues to trade under the name “Good Coffee Pty Ltd”, he will remain eligible to hold the registration licence.

Depending on the date Matthew registered the “Good Coffee” company name, he may or may not be able to lodge a complaint through the .au Dispute Resolution Process (auDRP). He would need to contact auDA to determine the domain name registration date, and could then make a decision on whether to pursue his complaint further.

Ron noticed that the owner of funtechnology.com.au, Diana, is using an expired business name as her eligibility ID to support the registration of the domain name. The domain is registered through Online is Easy, so Ron contacts Online is Easy's support and inquires about an official complaint.

Online is Easy will contact TPP Wholesale’s Domain Complaints team reviews Ron’s complaint and realises that the Registered Business Name that Diana is using has indeed expired. They contact Diana and give her 14 days notice to update her eligibility details. If she fails to do so, the domain name will be de-registered.

Diana responds to the request and provides an updated and valid ABN number. The registration of the domain is updated so that the name meets eligibility criteria. If Diana had not responded, the domain name would have been deleted. However, as she provided the requested information she is able to retain ownership of the domain licence.