[3836293648]

You're obviously American. .com is not the only acceptable domain. Each country's tld is perfectly fine for anything in said country. In fact, it's really weird when companies here in Sweden use a .com domain instead of a .se

[SilverRed]

It's kind of a pain to use .com.au because you have to register an ABN and have a company / yourself be directly related to that name. So I can't just come up with any cool domain name I want and create a .com.au for myself without legally registering that name too.

[slj]

There's a little-known .au TLD just for this purpose- .id.au, and I've found it's still quite easy to snag a ${name}.id.au (No ABN required, AFAIK).