Im Giles, some may recognise me from Namepros

A couple of questions for you

I have one .com.au domain and I recently sold it to a bloke in Sydney

Its regged Austdomains.com.au

I had a look at the transfer process and it says this

Am I reading this correctly, its going to cost me $300 to transfer the domain to the new owner??

Is there a cheaper way of doing this??

Thanks for any help guys/gals

Anyone know of the best and cheapest place to reg .com.au and .net.au domains??

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How to change the owner of my domain?

Changing ownership of a domain name is a PERMANENT function. You will not be able to change the ownership back once you have made the change.

As you may know, ownership change means to transfer all of the rights and duties of domain names to designated person/corporate. To protect your properties, we do not accept the application of ownership change online by telephone or email.

To change the ownership of domain name, Aust Domains must reset your domain name license. This effectively means your registration period starts from the day it is reset, any previous registration period will be lost.

The fee will thus be the standard cost of new registration or equal value, plus the Change of ownership fee.

example 1. AUD $28.com domain + AUD $220 Change of ownership fee
example 2. AUD $69.com.au domain + AUD $220 Change of ownership fee

Hi GilesColey, i have scoured the complete auda.org.au website and with no luck, have found nothing in terms of change of ownership fees for .au domains. Where abouts did you see the it was going to cost $220 or $300?

Actually GilesColey, I had just taken a look on some .au registrars and found this on the NetRegistry site in regards to Domain Transfers

It doesnt say anything about any hefty change of ownership fees. Also I just found the information from PlanetDomain.com and they have this to say.

AustDomains.com.au also have a zero transfer fee

Hi all

thanks for the imput but I have been on the phone to them and the charges do apply


Its the same with most registrars I have spoken to, some are cheaper, but they all have "change of ownership" fees, and you also have to pay the cost of another 2 years registration when the ownership changes

Damn rip off if you ask me

I believe you can transfer to another registrar without a charge, but only if the the "owner" is staying the same

Interesting. Hadn't realised this was the case.

Try slapping the fee on the buyer :P

Any chance of disclosing the domain and the price?

Interesting, this is a bit of a slap in the face to the new rule changes, though it does weed out all the small profiteering domainers who are looking to make $50 here and there. Ill still be purchasing .au domains to monetise, ill just have to look into buying more expensive ones to counterbalance this change of ownership cost :S

thanks GilesColey

I know, I guess just make sure the names are that much better when regging them

I pass the costs on to the buyer, most of my names are with Enetica, they've been charging new registrants $89, although they are about to launch their new fully automated registrant transfer service shortly for $49 including 2yrs reg fee.

So you can transfer the domain to enetica for free, and then the new registrant can just pay $49.

We've seen the price of domains come down in .au over the last few yrs, and I'm sure over the coming weeks and months we'll see the transfer fee come down too, competition will heat up for this part of the market..

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auDA says the registrar MAY charge fee for transfer.

They will stop eventually as competition grows. Used to cost to transfer .com's too...rememeber?

Thats good to know that Enetica so far have the cheapest ownership transfer fee, and when the automated system comes in, cheaper and faster, now thats what i like to hear. This is the main issue with the domain aftermarket, the ownership transfer fees, $49 will be a lot more reasonable for domainers looking to maximise profitibility.