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Domain Registration

Cost: from $25 a year
eCompanies can provide business class Email Hosting to clients that have registered a domain through us. Like all our services its extremely easy to order and use.

Why use eCompanies for domain registration?

  • Incredibly simple registration process. We use your company information to streamline the application.
  • From $27 a year for a range of domains.
  • All domains come with zone management and a FREE Weebly sitebuilder.
  • Domains are registered through TPP Wholesale, NetRegistry’s reseller brand. NetRegistry is Australia’s largest domain registrar with one in three .au domain names under administration.

How do I register a domain?

  • Log in to the client area
  • Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  • Select the owning company from the drop down and click ‘Register Now’
  • Check the availability and select the domains you wish to register
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Domain Registration FAQs

A POP account has its own inbox where received emails are stored. POP account providers usually also provide SMTP servers to allow you to send email. If you require POP email accounts you will need to purchase email hosting, either from eCompanies or from a third party. If you have purchased email hosting from eCompanies you can create a new email by following these instructions.

For domains registered with eCompanies before September 8th 2015

Your domain registration comes with 10 email forwarding accounts (alias). A forwarding account allows you to receive email on an address@yourdomain and have it forwarded to an existing email address. A forwarding account doesn’t have its own inbox that you can configure an email program with and you can’t send email from it. If you need POP accounts you can easily upgrade your domain, simply:
  1. Log in to the eCompanies Client Area
  2. Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  3. Click on the ‘Manage’ link for the relevant domain
  4. Complete the upgrade form

For domains registered with eCompanies AFTER September 8th 2015

You will have to purchase an email hosting package from eCompanies to create email addresses through us. You can also purchase third party hosting and configure your domain to use it.

When you purchase hosting from a third party provider you will receive instructions on how to configure your domain. There will usually be 2 options, delegate your domain name name servers or edit the zone records of your domain.

For instructions on how to delegate your domain please see How do I change the name servers on my domain?

For instructions on how to edit your zone records please see How do I edit my zone records?

If you would like eCompanies to perform the changes for you please contact us with all of the instructions you have received from your new host.

You can easily delegate your domain name servers from within the ecompanies client area. You need to:

For domains registered with eCompanies BEFORE September 8th 2015

  1. Log in to the eCompanies client area
  2. Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  3. Click on administer next to the relevant domain
  4. On the resulting screen click on the ‘Domain Name’ link
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page where there is a form with the current name servers set, the defaults are ns1.partnerconsole.net, ns2.partnerconsole.net and ns3.partnerconsole.net
  6. Change the nameservers as required and press ‘update nameservers’

For domains registered with eCompanies AFTER September 8th 2015

  1. Log in to the eCompanies client area
  2. Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  3. Click on DNS next to the relevant domain
  4. Near the top of the page fill in the new nameservers and click on ‘Update’

Your domain delegation is instantly changed, if the changes do not immediately take effect for you please allow a few hours for the changes to propagate.

With domains registered through eCompanies comes full zone file administration. To edit your zone

For domains registered with eCompanies BEFORE September 8th 2015

  1. Log in to the eCompanies client area
  2. Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  3. Click on administer next to the relevant domain
  4. On the resulting screen click on the ‘ZoneManager’ link
  5. Perform the relevant changes

For domains registered with eCompanies AFTER September 8th 2015

  1. Log in to the eCompanies client area
  2. Click on the ‘Domains’ tab
  3. Click on ‘Zone’ next to the relevant domain
  4. Perform the relevant changes

Your domain zone file is instantly changed, however changes might not immediately take effect due to caching, always allow a few hours for changes to become visible.

Your domain comes with a set of default zone records which are required for the url redirection and email forwarding service. If you are using the zone to point your domain to another web host you can remove these records on the main domain administration screen by clicking on the ‘Disable Redirection’ and ‘Disable Email’ links.