# Domain & Hosting Services
Domain Name Registration

Registering an Australian domain name or global domain name with Melbourne IT is the first step to putting your business online. Melbourne IT can register domain names in many different name spaces including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .mobi, .us, .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .id.au, .eu, .co.uk, .asia, .nz and many other spaces. This means you can register domain names for your product names, business names, and brand names for all your local and global markets. We make domain name registration easy.

Email addresses and Email Services

Promote and market your business every time you send or receive emails by having an email address that suits your business, products, or brands. Melbourne IT offers email hosting services that you can use with existing or new domain names. Our services include multiple accounts and addresses, email forwarding, autoresponders, lots of storage, and remote access via webmail. Each service also offers virus scanning, spam filtering, whitelisting, and blacklisting for email protection.

Website Design and Website Development Services

Customised website design services for your business complement your website hosting and domain name registration. Our professional web developers and web designers can create a custom website designed to meet your business goals. Secure online stores complete with shopping carts and secure payment systems, are included in our ecommerce packages.

Web Hosting

Website hosting services include email services, generous disk space, and data transfer allowances, with a range of plans to suit your website's traffic.

Accredited Domain Name Registrar

Melbourne IT is a fully accredited Australian domain name registrar being accredited by auDA for Australian Domain Names. We're accredited for .com, .net and .org domain names, .biz domain names, .mobi domain names for mobiles, .eu domain names, .de domain names, .asia domain names and many other country code domain names.

A domain hosting company does just that: hosts your domain name on its servers so Internet users anywhere can type in your URL and access your Website by domain name. In most cases, domain hosting and Web hosting are the same thing.

A domain name actually provides a shortcut to help users access your Website. Every site-hosting server in the world has its own unique Internet Protocol, or IP, address. Rather than having to type in a complex IP address like 208.97.191.15, though, DNS (for Domain Name System) allows you to type in an easy-to-remember URL like www.webhostingreport.com and access the Website you want that way.

You can register your own domain name via either a domain registrar or domain host. Many hosts also offer additional domain services, including the ability to host multiple domain names and sub-domains on a single account. Registrars and hosting companies can also park your domain name if you want to reserve a particular name for yourself but aren't ready to put up a Website yet.

If you’re concerned about privacy, you might also want to seek out a host that can help you with private domain name registration. Private registration ensures that spammers can’t find your email address via a domain name registration database.

Domain names are available with a wide range of extensions, including .com, .net, .org, .info and .biz. You can also get country-specific domain-name extensions like .us ( USA), .ca ( Canada), .jp ( Japan) and .de ( Germany).

Depending on your needs, you should also look for a domain host that can provide ample amounts of disk space, bandwidth, email accounts and databases, as well as other features like a Web-based control panel, WebMail, FTP access, ecommerce and support for applications like Weblogs, discussion forums, live chat, photo galleries and more.