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Top-level Internet domain for Austria .at Dot-at domain logo.png 20 January 1988 Country code top-level domain Active nic.at nic.at 1,468,838 December 2022 https://www.nic.at/de/wissenswertes/statistiken-und-studien/statistiken .at Statistiken nic.at 2022-12-10 Entities connected with Austria Very popular in Austria, also used for English-language domain hacks None, except for restricted subdomains .gv.at and .ac.at Registrations are directly at second level, or at third level beneath several second-level labels .at-Domain Registration Guidelinesnic.at - Terms of Use none since October 2008 http://www.nic.at/en/faq/legal_issues/ Legal issues 2011-08-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20110817070141/http://www.nic.at/en/faq/legal_issues 2011-08-17 dead https://www.nic.at/ yes .at is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Austria. It was introduced on 20 January 1988 and initially administered by the University of Vienna,Rastl Peter June 2000 Es begann an der Uni Wien: 10 Jahre Internet in Österreich It all began at the University of Vienna: 10 years of the internet in Austria http://comment.univie.ac.at/00-2/2/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120115104608/http://comment.univie.ac.at/00-2/2/ 2012-01-15 2026-01-02 Universität Wien before being taken over in 1998Company History https://www.nic.at/en/the-company/company-history 2026-01-02 www.nic.at by nic.at, based in Salzburg..at Domain Delegation Data https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/at.html 2026-01-02 IANA Second-level domains The .at top-level domain has a number of second-level domains: +DomainIntended use.ac.at Reserved for academic institutions, especially universities.gv.atReserved for the government as well as federal and state authorities.co.atIntended for commercially oriented companies.or.atIntended for all kinds of organizations.priv.atIntended for private Austrian individuals However, it is also possible to register directly at the top level. Domains under .at, .or.at, and .co.at can be registered without restrictions. No Domicile (Austria) residence de Wohnsitz (Österreich) or office in Austria is required..at-Domain https://www.united-domains.de/at-domain/ 2026-01-02 www.united-domains.de de Only .ac.at (administered by the Austrian academic network ACOnet) and .gv.at (administered by the Vienna City Administration on behalf of the Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs) are not freely registrable. The priv.at domain is operated by the association VIBE!AT. Known domain hacks Given the number of English words that end with -at, this presents the possibility for many domain hacks. Many Austrian domain names were registered for English words that end with "at". Domain hacks treating "at" as a word in its own right (such as arrive.at) are widespread. As of today, there are very few such domain names left available on the domain prime market as the result of domain name speculation. Most of them can be bought on the domain secondary market. Only a few of these domain names are actually used. Some known examples of the Austrian domain hack are: donteat.at, a popular Foursquare service hailst.at, official website of Mississippi State Bulldogs athletics Properties An .at domain may be between one and 63 characters in length, and registration is typically completed within minutes. Registrations of internationalized domain names are accepted. http://www.nic.at/en/service/technical_information/idn/charset_converter/ Charset & Converter 2011-08-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20060510141545/http://www.nic.at/en/service/technical_information/idn/charset_converter/ 2006-05-10 dead Since 31 March 2004, the use of German umlauts and other special characters has been supported.Hitzelberger Florian 2004-03-25 .at - Umlaut-Start am 31. März .at - Umlaut launch on 31 March https://domain-recht.de/domain-registrierung/internationalisierte-domain-namen/at-umlaut-start-am-31-maerz-10309.html 2026-01-02 domain-recht.de de In mid-2007, it became possible to register domains consisting solely of digits, though this met with limited interest compared to other ccTLDs.Hitzelberger RA Florian 2007-06-29 .at - Ansturm auf Zifferndomains bleibt aus .at - No rush for number domains https://domain-recht.de/domain-registrierung/nicat/at-ansturm-auf-zifferndomains-bleibt-aus-11121.html 2026-01-02 domain-recht.de de Since 2004, .at has supported internationalized domain names (IDNs), including lowercase letters from the ISO 8859-1 character set as well as the characters œ, š, and ž from the Unicode Latin Extended-A range. Since 15 December 2011, .at has implemented Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to ensure the authenticity and integrity of Domain Name System data. On 10 February 2012, the DS resource record for .at was entered into the root name servers, enabling signature validation.DNSSEC Deployment Report https://rick.eng.br/dnssecstat/ 2026-01-02 rick.eng.br Since August 2016, it has been possible to register one- and two-character .at domains. Previously, due to technical requirements dating from 1993, only domains with at least three characters could be allocated.https://www.nic.at/en/service/introduction-of-short-domains nic.at: Introduction of short domains 2016-05-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20160716204800/https://www.nic.at/en/service/introduction-of-short-domains/ 2016-07-16 dead Ein- und zweistellige .at-Domains werden ab August vergeben One- and two-character .at domains will be allocated starting in August https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/2000035761206/ein-und-zweistellige-at-domains-werden-ab-august-vergeben 2026-01-02 Der Standard de Distribution The registry nic.at conducts an annual survey among holders of .at domains. In 2012, this revealed, among other things, that over half of the surveyed companies owned more than six domains, with a quarter owning more than 30.nic.at: Domainstrategie-Studie 2012 nic.at: Domain Strategy Study 2012 http://blog.united-domains.de/2012/08/nic-at-domainstrategie-studie-2012/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150612152758/http://blog.united-domains.de/2012/08/nic-at-domainstrategie-studie-2012/ 2015-06-12 2026-01-02 blog.united-domains.de de Due to the liberal registration criteria, .at has experienced steady growth in recent years. In March 2012, exactly 1.1 million domains had been registered.Hitzelberger Florian 2012-03-02 Statistik - .at feiert 1.111.111ste Domain Statistics - .at celebrates its 1,111,111th domain https://domain-recht.de/domain-registrierung/domain-statistik/statistik-at-feiert-1-111-111ste-domain-62575.html 2026-01-02 domain-recht.de de By May 2019, the number had risen to over 1.3 million, equating to 0.15 .at domains per inhabitant. While growth in the 2000s sometimes exceeded 100,000 new domains per year, only around 55,000 were registered in total from 2015 to 2018..at Domain https://www.domaintechnik.at/at-domain/ 2026-01-02 domaintechnik.at de See also .wien References External links NIC.AT Website IANA — .at Domain Delegation Data Private Individuals .at Registrars Website Category:Internet in Austria Category:Telecommunications in Austria Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Internet properties established in 1988 Category:1988 establishments in Austria de:Nic.at he:סיומת אינטרנט#טבלת סיומות המדינות sv:Toppdomän#A