Do you need a website name? 

All websites require a "domain name", which is the internationally-registered base address (ie. name) for the website. For example, "winchwebsites.com.au" is our own domain name, directly related to our business name of Winch Websites. We can assist you in registering your domain names, or if you already have some, we can centrally manage them all for you and provide you with a single point of contact and a single annual invoice for them.

Domain names vary in price, depending on the "Top Level Domain" or TLD that you pick. The TLD is supposed to indicate the country and type of organisation that the name belongs to, for example everyone is familiar with the TLD of ".com" as used by Google (google.com).
But there are other TLDs ;

• .com.au for Australian business domains (eg. atasteoftheregion.com.au)
• .org.au for Australian non-profit organisations (eg. winchelsea-festival.org.au)
• .net, .biz, .info for the default country of the USA, or generally seen as 'worldwide' (eg. coominya.com)
• .com.us if you want to specifically state a USA connection
• .name for family name domains

1. Firstly find out whether it has already been registered. This can be done reasonably quickly and easily through any of the domain registration websites (see Enom.com as an example).
2. If your domain name is available (or if you want us to check for you), contact us and we'll do the rest! Be aware that initial registration of the domain names requires 2 years payment in advance, this is standard domain registration practice.

Note that domain names can be prepaid in many instances for up to 10 years. If you are certain you want to keep a domain name, you may want to pre-pay for as long as possible.

Do you have questions or queries about domain names? Get in touch with Winch Websites and we'll make it all clear.