About .com.au domains

Select a category below to get information about price, terms and restrictions, registration details, privacy protection, and more for .com.au domains.

Price

Type	Price	Learn more
Yearly registration	$12 USD	Buy a domain
Fee to restore an expired or removed domain	$0 USD	Restore a domain

Terms & restrictions

Terms & restrictions	Details	Learn more
Registrar of record	Domain Directors Pty Ltd	Understand your registrar of record
Registry	Au Domain Administration LTD.	About registries
ccTLD	Yes - Australia	Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory.
Restrictions	Yes	Registrant must adhere to AUDA policies and agreements Registrant must meet AUDA’s Domain Name Eligibility and Allocation Policy Rules Registrant must provide the current contact address along with a valid Australian identification (Australian Business Number, Australian Company Number, Trademark), name and type of business Selling, renting or leasing of com.au sub-domains to third parties are prohibited without permission from AUDA Registry terms of service

Registration

Registration information	Details	Learn more
Maximum registration period	5 years	This is the maximum number of years that you can manually add to your domain registration.
Transfer purchase requirement	No	About domain transfers to Google Domains
Transfer authorization required	Yes	This indicates if authorization is required from the current registrant to complete a transfer. If so, the current registrant will receive a verification email.
Auto-renew timing versus Expiration date	18 days before the expiration date	If you have auto-renew turned on, this is the number of days before or after your registration expires that Google Domains attempts to process an auto-renew payment.
Auto-renew grace period	Zero days	When you enable auto-renew, this is the number of days after your registration expires that you have to update your payment method until your service is disrupted.
Expiration disruption period	Zero days	If you don't have auto-renew turned on and your registration expires, you'll have a certain number of days before your service is disrupted.
Renewal grace period	3 days before the expiration date	When your domain expires, you have a certain number of days to renew the domain for another year. For more details about price, go to the price section above.
Restoration grace period	30 days	After the renewal grace period, you have a certain number of days to restore the domain for another year. After that time, it becomes available to the public for registration. For more details about price, go to the price section above.
Availability wait period	4 days	When a domain is deleted, you must wait a certain number of days before the domain is available to the public for registration.

Privacy information

Privacy information	Details	Learn more
Privacy protection allowed	No	About privacy protection
Privacy protection provider	N/A	N/A

Domain name system (DNS) information

DNS information	Details	Learn more
Domain name supports non-ascii characters (for example, À, É, Î, or グ)	No	IANA Repository of IDN Practices
Number of characters in a domain name	2–63	The domain name characters can be letters, numbers, or a combination of both. The character length applies only to the domain name, and doesn’t include the domain ending, such as .com and .net.
Number of name servers	1–13	Manage domain name servers
Supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)	Yes	Setting up DNSSEC