Your domain name, owned by you and managed from Nowra.
Registration, transfers, recoveries and honest naming advice for Shoalhaven businesses getting online or getting organised.
Nowra, Shoalhaven, or neither? Naming a local business online.
The most common naming question we get across the desk, and the honest answer depends entirely on what you plan to become.
A single-town business benefits from the place in the name. A Berry cafe, a Culburra surf school: the town matches what customers type and where they are standing when they type it, and it does half the trust work before anyone has read a word of the site.
A business that intends to serve the whole region, or grow past it, should be careful. Nowra in the domain can feel wrong to a customer in Milton, and rebranding a domain later is genuinely painful. This is the case we see regret most often, which is why it gets the rule under it.
Either way, the rules that never change: get the .com.au, register it under your own ABN and your own details, and keep the renewal in your own inbox.
Everything a domain needs, from registration to the day it moves.
New registrations
Set up correctly the first time, in your name and never ours.
Transfers
Away from old providers, old developers and old business partners, including the stubborn ones.
Renewals managed
So a missed email never takes your website and your email down at the same time.
DNS changes, with a rollback plan
One wrong record can silently kill your email for days. Mail records are DNS records too, so when email is moving we handle both ends at once.
We also do recoveries: the domain registered a decade ago by a nephew, a defunct agency or an account nobody can access. The earlier you start that process, the cheaper it stays.
The domain questions behind half our first meetings.
Four questions that come up before anybody has agreed to build anything.
Should our domain say Nowra or Shoalhaven?+
Town name for a single-town business, broader name if you plan to serve the region. If you are torn, register both for a few dollars and decide which one leads; the other can point to the same site.
A domain with our business name is already taken. Now what?+
First we check who holds it, because sometimes it is a lapsed registration that can be recovered or bought cheaply. If it is genuinely gone, we will help you find a variant that customers can still type and Google can still connect to your business, without resorting to something nobody remembers.
How many domains does a business actually need?+
Usually one good .com.au, sometimes plus the .au or an obvious misspelling. Portfolios of keyword domains bought for Google stopped working years ago, and we would rather tell you that than invoice you for twelve renewals.
Our emails run on the domain. What breaks if it lapses?+
Everything at once: website down, email bouncing, and after the grace period the name can be picked up by anyone, including a competitor. This is why renewal management is the least exciting and most important thing on this page.
The rest of what we do, from the one office.
Everything else we look after for Shoalhaven businesses, out of the same office.
Tell us the name you are after, or the tangle somebody else left you. Either one starts with a short conversation and ends with a fixed number.
A quote from us is free, fixed and yours to sit on. No countdown timers, no chase-up calls.