.at

.at is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Austria. It is administered by nic.at.

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.at

Introduced	20 January 1988
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	nic.at
Sponsor	nic.at
Intended use	Entities connected with Austria
Actual use	Very popular in Austria, also used for English-language domain hacks
Registered domains	1,468,838 (December 2022)^[1]
Registration restrictions	None, except for restricted subdomains .gv.at and .ac.at
Structure	Registrations are directly at second level, or at third level beneath several second-level labels
Documents	Terms and conditions (English)
Dispute policies	none since October 2008^[2]
DNSSEC	yes
Registry website	www.nic.at

Second-level domains

The .at top-level domain has a number of second-level domains:

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Domain	Intended use
.ac.at	Reserved for academic institutions, especially universities
.gv.at	Reserved for the government as well as federal and state authorities
.co.at	Intended for commercially-oriented companies
.or.at	Intended for all kinds of organizations
.priv.at	Intended for private Austrian individuals

However, it is also possible to register directly at the top level.

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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 hacks are:

donteat.at, a popular Foursquare service
hailst.at, official website of Mississippi State Bulldogs athletics

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Properties

An .at-Domain can be between one and 63 characters long. Registrations of internationalized domain names are accepted.^[3]

In 2007, it was made possible to register domain names containing only numbers. The .at-Domain started using DNSSEC in 2011 in order to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of the Domain Name System's data.

Before August 2016, it was only possible to register .at-Domains with three or more (two for co.at, ac.at, gv.at, or.at) characters.^[4]

Second-level domains

Known domain hacks

Properties

References

External links

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