Australia has approved a new domain extension. Soon businesses with a verified connection with Australia will be able to register not only domain names with .com.au but also .au. The idea is it is supposed to make URLs shorter, simpler, and more direct and will bring us into line with the rest of the world.
From the 24th of March 2022, these new domain names will be available to be registered. Owners of.com.au, .org.au and other relevant .au domain names have from the 24th of March until the 20th of September 2022 to register the exact .au match of any other .au domain names they may currently be holding (e.g. .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .id.au, asn.au).
So, for example, our business owns heartcomms.com.au. From the 24th of March, we can also apply to register heartcomms.au.
If you don’t register the .au version of your domain name by the 20th of September, then the .au version of your domain name will be released onto the market, which will allow anyone to register it. | 
