Getting your Domain name is the first step to getting your website up and running. Choosing a domain name is not as easy as it may seem there are a lot of things to think of when choosing a domain name.
If you run a local business consider including your city/area name in your domain name to help engrave that your local into potential customer minds.
You want to stand out, try a few versions on small focus groups or with friends to make sure it makes sense you don’t want to confuse potential customers.
Make sure your chosen name isn’t already trademarked, copyrighted or being used by other company.
.com and .com.au is clearly the most commonly use extension but you don’t have to go straight to this if it is not what suits your business best. Below are some of the options that you can use.
The right domain name will help you get found - your domain name is the first factor that search engines like google will look at for the content of your website.
LOADINGSimply scroll to the top of this page and type in the domain name you need; e.g. myshop.com.au. If the domain name is available for registration, you will be taken through the ordering process from there. Otherwise you can search for another domain name.
Not necessarily. Before transferring your domain name to or from GTP, it’s important to check to see how your DNS records have been configured and record these down. Domains can be moved between registrars if the nameservers stay the same. New Nameservers can be setup before or after a move.
Absolutely. When the time comes to renew your domain, GTP recieves notifications and we invoice you for the renewal fee. You can then choose which domains to renew or let lapse. We'll remind you a few times. It is important to pay for the renewal fee if you need the domain renewed. Note - Letting a domain lapse through non payment can devastate long term SEO benefits.
We accept Visa Card and Mastercard, as well as PayPal and Direct Deposit payments. All .AU domain names are registered in 2 year blocks, whereas all other domains can be purchased for any amount ranging from 1 year up to 10 years however we usually stick to the 2 year cycle.
Using our DNS hosting console, you’re able to set up as many A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV and NS records as you require yourself, with no limit to how many changes you can make on them. Or GTP can do this for you given that's what we do for a small fee.
Yes you can. The required MX records can be assigned to Google Apps by GTP for a fee or you can do it yourself through the DNS management console.
If you do not have a trademark on your business or product names, then ensuring you have the most common domain name extensions registered may protect you from a competitor using those names and costly future legal spats. If you do not have a trademark, then just because you have a registered business name does little to protect you.
Keyword rich domain names still have significant impacts on seach engine rankings and Google quality scores which reduces your cost per click spend in Adwords. Many companies spin off multiple sites that each focus on just one product or service to promote this service specifically. Registering the domains early on gives you this opportunity.
Ensuring you have a domain name locked up now can save you compromising on your future plans.
A common scam email to Australian companies comes from China and tells you that a company wants to register your domain with .CH as an extension and so forth. Generally, all you need is the .com.au and .com extensions. You may also wish to eliminate .net.au being available as the other main extension.
