Search a short .AU direct name for an Australian business, organization, project, personal profile, campaign, or brand. NiceNIC supports eligibility review, registration, transfer coordination, DNS, bulk management, and reseller workflows.
Need help confirming Australian Presence or choosing between .AU direct and COM.AU? Explore NiceNIC reseller services or contact support before registration.
.AU direct is open to applicants with a validated Australian Presence. The name can be chosen broadly when available and permitted, but the underlying registrant evidence must remain accurate. NiceNIC supports search, registration, transfer preparation, DNS, renewals, and portfolio workflows.
Add funds and pay for domain services using supported crypto options such as USDT, BTC, ETH, and LTC. Automated crypto deposit recording helps account balances update quickly after successful confirmation, with no extra NiceNIC processing fee for automated deposits.
NiceNIC provides real human support, not only scripted replies. Our team can review your domain needs, explain practical options, and give account-level, transfer, bulk registration, and reseller suggestions to help your domain business grow.
NiceNIC does not take arbitrary action against domains. Abuse reports are reviewed based on available evidence, policies, and registry requirements, with domain owners guided to review, fix, or explain reported issues where appropriate.
Manage .AU together with 2,500+ domain extensions from one NiceNIC account, including country-code, generic, and new domain extensions. This helps businesses, investors, and resellers build global domain coverage more efficiently.
NiceNIC supports 47+ website languages, creating a multilingual registrar experience for international users and teams. This makes domain registration, renewal, transfer, account management, and support easier across different markets.
For hosting providers, agencies, platforms, and domain resellers, NiceNIC supports reseller API access for domain registration, renewal, transfer, DNS, account-level pricing, and custom nameserver services.
auDA’s June 2026 registry report recorded 4,387,430 .AU names under management. COM.AU remained the largest namespace with 3.3M names, while the shorter .AU direct namespace reached 809.6K and grew 3.7% year over year.
auDA registry total for June 2026.
The shortest Australian namespace in June 2026.
IANA registration date: March 5, 1986.
The blue segment uses auDA’s June 2026 total for all .AU namespaces. Other ccTLDs are reduced by the .AU total so the chart preserves the Q1 2026 global category framework.
The shortest Australian namespace removes the extra category label while preserving the local eligibility and trust framework administered by auDA.
Applicants must meet an approved Australian Presence category and provide supporting registration data.
.AU direct can suit eligible individuals, businesses, organizations, projects, and personal profiles without the COM.AU category label.
auDA reported 4.4M names under management and publishes monthly namespace and service-performance statistics.
This official auDA snapshot compares the main namespaces inside .AU using one registry report and one reporting date.
Public completed sales for names ending directly in .AU are still less widely disclosed than sales in older commercial namespaces. For eligible buyers, a short .AU name can nevertheless support local trust, easier recall, brand protection, campaigns, and long-term Australian use.
An individual, business, not-for-profit, and platform will use .AU direct differently. Choose the workflow that matches the applicant’s Australian Presence evidence and domain-management needs.
Use a short local address for a company, product, service, campaign, or customer portal.
Eligible citizens and permanent residents can use .AU direct for portfolios, personal profiles, side projects, and professional identity.
Associations, not-for-profits, community groups, and eligible organizations can build a concise Australian web presence.
Coordinate client eligibility, registration, transfer passwords, DNS, and renewals through repeatable workflows.
If you already own .AU domains elsewhere, transfer decisions should not be based only on one renewal invoice. Check transfer eligibility, ownership access, billing reliability, support response time, API needs, and long-term domain management.
Paste multiple .AU names, remove duplicates, review the count, and continue to bulk registration. This is useful for domain investors, brand teams, agencies, hosting providers, and resellers.
Enter one name per line, with or without .AU. The tool removes duplicates and prepares a clean list for bulk registration.
If your business sells hosting, websites, SaaS, agency services, or brand protection packages, NiceNIC reseller APIs can support domain registration, renewal, transfer, DNS, and account management.
# NiceNIC API v2 endpoint
# Applies to supported domain extensions, including .com, .net, .org, ccTLDs, and new gTLDs
https://api.nicenic.net/v2/
# Required headers
Authorization: username:api_secret
Content-Type: application/json
# Check domain availability across multiple extensions
curl "https://api.nicenic.net/v2/?category=domain&action=check&domains=example.com,example.net,mybrand.org" \
-H "Authorization: username:api_secret" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
# Get registration / renewal / transfer pricing for any supported extension
curl "https://api.nicenic.net/v2/?category=domain&action=get_price&domain=example.com&type=register&year=1" \
-H "Authorization: username:api_secret" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
# Change the domain value to query another TLD:
# example.com, example.net, example.org, example.ai, example.co
# Standard response format
{
"code": 0,
"msg": "success",
"data": {}
}
Short answers for buyers who need to confirm pricing, bulk search, transfer rules, payment, or reseller/API support before continuing.
.AU direct is the shortest general-use namespace under Australia’s .AU country-code domain. It launched in March 2022 and is managed under auDA rules.
An applicant must have a validated Australian Presence, such as an Australian citizen or permanent resident, an Australian-registered company or organization, an ABN holder, or an eligible Australian trade mark holder.
Not always. An ABN or ACN is one way to meet Australian Presence, but citizens, permanent residents, organizations, associations, and Australian trade mark holders may qualify through other approved categories.
.AU direct is a general-use namespace for anyone with a validated Australian Presence. COM.AU is intended for eligible commercial entities and its selected name must satisfy the applicable business-name connection rules.
A .AU licence can be registered or renewed for one, two, three, four, or five years, subject to provider support and continued eligibility.
A valid domain-name password, also called an authorization code or AuthInfo code, is normally required. The registrant should confirm contact access, domain status, and DNS before transfer.
No. auDA does not require a .AU direct domain to have an active website, but the registrant must remain eligible and keep registration information accurate.
Yes, when each application is available, permitted, and supported by valid Australian Presence information. Use the bulk domain workflow to organize brand and defensive-name lists.
Yes. NiceNIC supports account-level management and reseller API services, but the agency or provider must collect accurate client eligibility and registrant information.
Register a new .AU, transfer an existing domain, or upgrade your account level for bulk registration and reseller API use.
