Riverland Internet is able to register and host a domain name for your company, organization, or personal needs. The following is a guide to the fees associated with this. For further information, email webmaster@riverland.net.au, or call us on 8586 6425 between 8:30am and 5:00pm weekdays. The form to open a hosting account with us is here.

The cost of a website with your choice of web address (such as www.COMPANYNAME.com.au) is in three parts: the cost of the domain name itself, the cost of having it hosted on our servers and the cost of having the page designed. This page talks about the first two parts only, since web design costs depend on too many things to cover here. For some more information on having a page designed for you, contact us - if we can't do it, we can recommend some local web designers who can.

Domain Registration Charges

Please note that these charges are not under our control, and may change over time. We will try to keep this page up to date, and will give you the latest when you wish to register.
There are other domain extensions out there, these are just the most common ones. Ask us if you had something else in mind! The name registry we use is Enetica. As a registered reseller for Enetica, we can offer better prices than the retail listing on their website.

yourname.COM.AU : $66.00 for 2 years. This is the domain we would recommend to most Australian businesses. To get a .com.au domain, you need an ABN or RBN, and the name you request needs to be in some way related to that name. The rules on this aren't as strict as they used to be - if you had a name rejected before July 1st 2002, call us, and we'll try for it again.

yourname.ORG.AU : $33 for 2 years. To get a .org.au, you must be a non-profit organization with an incorporation or registration number or some kind.

yourname.COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ or .INFO : $22.00 per year. Anyone can register these domains. There are no conditions like those for a .com.au. or .org.au. They are cheaper than a .com.au partly because of this - they don't say as much about you. A .com.au domain IS an Australian company. A .com might not even be a company, but someone's personal domain.

Hosting Charges

Standard Hosting Package : $110 per year. This is sufficient for 90% of small companies' websites. It includes:

• Domain email features
  
• Virtual Webserver with 20 MB storage. (provides www.yourname.COM.AU etc.))
  
• Access to existing CGIs (formmail, counter), SSI, PHP.
  
• Monthly log reports, access to raw webserver logs if required
  
• FTP access from anywhere.
  (changed - some of our older hosting accounts had FTP access only from our modems.)

"Host 2" hosting package : $165 per year. It includes:

• Domain email features
  
• Virtual webserver with 50MB storage
  
• Access to existing CGIs (formmail, counter), SSI, PHP.
  
• Your own cgi-bin directory.
• Your own MySQL databases.
• Multiple pages on our secure webserver, sharing the use of our SSL server certificate.
• Your own virtual secure webserver. This requires the purchase of your own SSL server certificate - about $140 per year
  
• Monthly log reports, access to raw webserver logs if required
  
• FTP access from anywhere.
  

Domain email features : These features are included with all our hosting options, or you can have them on their own (ie, mail only, no webpages) for $55 per year:

• Domain name hosting on our DNS servers
  
• Our mailserver will receive mail for your domain (also called "MX hosting"). As a backup, we also provide a secondary mailserver at another site.
  
• One POP Mailbox
  
• 10 Email addresses within the domain. This can include redirection to other addresses or extra mailboxes. We can set up a 'default' or 'catch-all' address to match any address that's not specifically configured.
  

Extras :

• More disk storage: $22 per year for each 50 MB block added.
  
• More email addresses, POP mailboxes etc: $66 per hour required for setup
  
• Another MySQL database on a host2 plan: $22 per year
  
• Custom CGI setup - Guestbook, shopping cart etc.: $66 per hour required for setup
  
• Order forms on Secure Server: $27.50 - Applies each time we have to transfer the page to the secure webserver. (This is not needed with the host2 package.)
  
• Mailing lists available: POA.
  
• Server Colocation available: POA.
  

Notes:

• A $55 once-only setup fee applies to all domains
  
• Hosting charges are payable in advance, a year at a time.
  
• All listed prices include GST unless otherwise specified.
  
• With all packages, we include: Plenty of help to select a name and get everything running!
  
• Being a small business, we can be flexible on most things - ask us if you have something specific in mind.
  
• All our webservers run Unix variants, for reasons of reliability, performance and security.
  
• We can give special discounts to Riverland community groups - just ask us!
  

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