Google Checkout Australia Coming Soon?

Feb 26, 2007 at 10:17am ET by Barry Schwartz

Is Google Checkout coming to Australia? It appears that Google registered Google Payment Australia PTY. LTD. in Australia recently, which could be a sign of that.

A reader pointed me to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission web site that shows a record for a Google Australia payments company. On January 4th of this year, Google seemed to have applied for the registration of the new company. The record also shows these past actions:

07/11/2006: 410A Application For Reservation of a Name of a New Australian Company
04/01/2007: 201C Application For Registration as a Proprietary Company
12/02/2007: 384 Notification of Resol. By Directors of a Small Pty Company Controlled By a Foreign Coy Which Is Not Part of Large Group

So is Google Checkout coming to Australia soon?

We know buyers can currently order from Australian shipping addresses.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google Checkout Australia Coming Soon?

Satibo PtyLimited, February 28th, 2007 at 5:28 pm ET:

Thanks for the post I am very keen to start using this merchant service so keep up the updates

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