Avoid domain names.com.au
Went with this company 2 years ago as I knew little about registering a domain name and it looked to me like this company was the only way I could get my name. They charged $250/year.
I was paid up until October 2025, yet was sent an invoice on the 11/8/25 for 3 years registration, with the due date being the 12/8. I didn’t even see the email until today, when I noticed they had sent an updated email on the 13/8 adding a $99 late fee - the invoice even stated that the registration dates were October ‘25 - October ‘28.
It is hear impossible to contact someone, I put in a support ticket only to get a reply saying that my query was covered in their online support FAQs (it wasn’t). I tried to phone, it just pushes you back to the useless and misnamed ‘support page’.
Anyway I googled, found another company with excellent reviews, VentralP, and transferred my domain registration to another company - where I could actually do live chat with a helpful person, and it cost me $23 for the year.
I feel like a numpty for not looking into it earlier, but if they hadn’t tried to con me I probably, stupidly, would have just paid the invoice if it was sent with a reasonable period of notice and no ‘late fee’.
Avoid them like the plague. I wonder if they are owned by another company as when I searched, it showed that my domain name was owned by crazydomains.com.au - so avoided moving to them.