nic.at

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nic.at GmbH

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The nic.at GmbH , based in Salzburg is the central registry for domains below the top-level domain .at . AT is the country code for Austria according to ISO 3166 . Nic.at is 100% owned by the Internet Private Foundation (IPA) and employs around 30 people. Domains for .at have been registered since 1988 , at that time the responsibility was still with the University of Vienna .

The tasks of nic.at include:

  • Provision of various information, in particular on legal issues relating to domain registration and administration, such as WHOIS queries
  • Austria-wide central registration and administration of domains with the endings .at , .co.at (company), .or.at (organizational).

Domains under .ac.at (academic) to the Central computer science service of the University of Vienna are requested but are available only to the academic and school environment while managing domain names under .gv.at (governmental) officially unused domains from the Federal Chancellery to be managed .

The managing directors of nic.at are Richard Wein and Robert Schischka . On January 11, 2011, the one millionth domain was registered with .at . DNSSec was introduced on February 19, 2012 .

An election for the Registrar Roundtable has been held every two years since 2005. All nic.at registrars are entitled to vote and can be elected. Even if the Roundtable cannot pass formally binding resolutions, many improvements have been implemented since its inception at the suggestion of the registrar representatives. The currently elected representatives of the Registrar Roundtable are:

  • Sebastian Röthler, info.at Internet GmbH
  • Oliver Elste, Smart-NIC GmbH
  • Alexander König, AKIS GmbH
  • Thomas Frank, flashbrother.net
  • Olivier Guerdan, RegistryGate GmbH
  • Mario Peschel, INWX GmbH & Co. KG

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It began at the University of Vienna for 10 years of Internet in Austria. In: University of Vienna. June 1, 2000, accessed March 2, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Central IT Service of the University of Vienna. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2013 ; accessed on March 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aco.net
  3. ↑ Platform Digital Austria. Retrieved March 1, 2013 .
  4. ↑ One million .at domains registered. (No longer available online.) In: futurezone. January 12, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 1, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.futurezone.at  
  5. ↑ nic.at introduces DNSSEC security standard for .at domains. (No longer available online.) Nic.at, February 19, 2012, archived from the original on April 6, 2012 ; Retrieved March 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nic.at
  6. ↑ .at report 2/2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '22 "  N , 13 ° 2' 31.4"  E