Re: Non-US Domain Registrations

... and in Australia, in order to get a xxx.com.au domain name you have to 
quote your Australian Business Registration number (BRN) or Australian 
Company Number (ACN).  (And your desired domain name has to be able to be 
made up from some or all of the letters in the business name in the order in 
which they appear in that name.)

So you have to be registered as a business with the Fair Trading authorities 
in Australia before you can get the domain name.

The domain name registration process automatically checks the companies 
registration database for your listing there.  No listing - no domain name.

(saves the domain issuing people from having to worry about your right to 
the name etc.  Since you can't register "coca Cola" as a business name here 
- its already taken by a soft drink company from Atlanta - you can't 
therefore get a domain name that will infringe that name here.)

Although, with all the changes happening lately, it wouldn't surprise me to 
learn that companies outside Australia can now register .com.au domain names 
elsewhere.


Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>I'm not sure about other companies, but in Canada you have to be Canadian 
>to
>have a domain.ca  To be specific, you have to be a federally incorporated
>for-profit corporation or a federally incorporated non-profit corporation.
>That last bit's taken straight from www.canadiandomain.com.  Hope that
>helped....
>
>Ben
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chuck Evans <Chucke(at)captura.com>
>To: 'HWG Techniques' <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 2:39 PM
>Subject: Non-US Domain Registrations
>
>
> > Sorry for the slightly off-topic nature of this request, but I need to 
>get
> > information on registering non-US domains for my company, such as for
> > Canada, France, Germany, etc. Is there a site I can go to with basic
> > information on how to go about this? Are there any companies that will 
>do
> > this for multiple countries? I dread having to personally apply to every
> > single country we may decide to register.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Chuck Evans
> > Web Marketing Manager
> > Captura Software, Inc.
> > (425) 424-1155
> > chucke(at)captura.com
> > www.captura.com
>

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