.at
| Top-level domain .at | |
|---|---|
| introduction | January 20, 1988 |
| category | country-specific |
| Registry | nic.at GmbH |
| Award | unrestricted |
| number | 1.3 million |
.at is the country-specific top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of Austria . It was introduced on January 20, 1988 and initially administered by the University of Vienna and since 1998 by nic.at GmbH based in Salzburg .
Second level domains
In addition to the ending .at, there are other second-level domains:
- .ac.at (intended for academic institutions, especially universities)
- .gv.at (intended for the government as well as federal and state authorities)
- .co.at (intended for commercially oriented companies)
- .or.at (intended for organizations of all kinds)
- .priv.at (intended for Austrian private individuals)
Domains under .at, .or.at and .co.at can be registered without any particular restrictions. A residence or a branch in Austria is not necessary. Only .ac.at (administered by the Austrian science network ACOnet ) and .gv.at (administered by the City of Vienna on behalf of the Federal Chancellery) cannot be freely registered. The domain priv.at is the club operated VIBE! AT.
properties
A .at domain can be between one and 63 characters long and can be assigned within minutes. The use of German umlauts and other special characters has been supported since March 31, 2004 . In the middle of 2007 the possibility was created to register domains that only contain digits. Compared to other ccTLDs, however, the release has met with little interest. .At has supported IDN since 2004 (lower case letters of the ISO 8859-1 character set and the three characters œ, š and ž from the Unicode character range Latin Extended-A).
.At has been using DNSSEC since December 15, 2011 to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of the data in the Domain Name System . On February 10, 2012, the DS Resource Record of .at was entered on the root name servers and the signature can thus be validated.
Since August 2016 it has also been possible to register single and double-digit .at domains. Until then, due to technical specifications from 1993, it was only possible to assign at least three character long .at domains.
distribution
The registration office nic.at conducts an annual survey among the owners of .at domains. In 2012 it became known, among other things, that over half of all companies surveyed have more than six domains, and a quarter even have more than 30 addresses.
Due to the extensive award criteria, .at has experienced continuous growth in recent years. In March 2012, exactly 1.1 million domains were registered. In May 2019 there are already over 1.3 million domains, which is 0.15 .at domains per inhabitant. While the growth in the 2000s was sometimes over 100,000 new domains per year, from 2015 to 2018 only around 55,000 were registered.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Registered .at domains. In: nic.at. Accessed on May 23, 2019 (current .at domain number).
- ↑ Comment: Archive2. University of Vienna , accessed on October 10, 2014 .
- ↑ nic.at : Company history. nic.at , archived from the original on October 15, 2014 ; Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Delegation Record for .AT. IANA , accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ .at domain. united-domains , accessed on September 10, 2012 ("Features" tab).
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Umlaut start on March 31st. In: domain-right. March 25, 2004, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: There is no rush to number domains. In: domain-right. June 29, 2007, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ^ ICANN : ICANN Research - TLD DNSSEC Report. December 15, 2011, accessed June 21, 2013 .
- ^ ICANN : ICANN Research - TLD DNSSEC Report. February 10, 2012, accessed June 21, 2013 .
- ↑ One- and two-digit .at domains will be assigned from August In: derstandard.at. April 26, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ↑ nic.at: Domain Strategy Study 2012. In: united-domains Blog. August 28, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .at celebrates the 1,111,111th domain. In: domain-right. March 2, 2012, accessed February 6, 2013 .
- ↑ .at domain. In: domaintechnik.at. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .