VentraIP Australia - .melbourne and .sydney Domains $9.95 Per Year New Registrations Only, Multi-year Registration Allowed

Until the end of October VentraIP Australia have .melbourne and .sydney available for $9.95 per year for a maximum of 10 years at one time per domain name. This deal is for new registrations only, does not apply to transfers or renewals. That means you can register your .melbourne and .sydney for 10 years today for $99.50.

This deal is most likely for you if you want to register for more than one year at a time as other deals and promotions at the moment only seem to be for 1 year on new registrations.

Renewals, transfers and the normal registration price is $69.95 at VentraIP Australia. So this should give you an idea of ongoing costs but in 10 years who knows if you choose to register your domain name for 10 years.

VentraIP Australia provides all services one would require with your domain name registration for no additional charges.

So the below is included for free:

• DNS Hosting
• URL and Email Forwarding
• ID Protection, Protects your contact information in the WHOIS System.

Promotional Terms:

• Maximum registration period of 10 years.
• Promotion ends 31st October 2016.
• New registrations only, does not include renewal, transfers or redemption restore of the above listed extensions.
  Excludes domain names classed as premium by the registry.

I should also point out VentraIP Australia have an issue with their ordering system that doesn't detect if a domain name is marked as premium by the registry — this is a known issue and they supposably working on it. This means your order may go through and you think the registration has been completed but you will be eventually contacted after the registration fails if it's a premium domain to arrange a refund. But, from my understanding this is been fixed in most cases and the domain name should now be displayed as unavailable — that's what happened for me today where several premium .melbourne and .sydney were shown as unavailable.

Also similar discounts on .melbourne and .sydney should be able to be found at multiple registrars. So happy hunting for other deals.