nic.at

nic.at GmbH
GmbH, an Austrian Limited liability company
Headquarters Salzburg, Austria
Website www.nic.at

The nic.at GmbH, based in Salzburg, is the domain name registry for the top-level domain .at. "AT" is the ISO 3166 country code for Austria. Nic.at is owned by the Internet Foundation Austria and has 30 employees. From 1988 until 1998, the University of Vienna was the domain name registry for .at domains.[1]

Tasks of nic.at include:

  • Providing information about the domain registration and management, for example, WHOIS queries
  • Central registration and administration of Austria-wide domain names ending in .at, .co.at (company). .or.at (organizational)

The Zentraler Informatikdienst [Central Computer Science Service] of the University of Vienna administers the academic domain .ac.at which is exclusively reserved for the academic and school environment.[2] The Federal Chancellery of Austria administers the governmental domain, .gv.at.[3]

  • "nic.at the austrian registry" (in German).
  • "The Domain Name Council".

References

  1. ↑ Rastl, Peter (June 2000). "It started at the University of Vienna - 10 years of Internet in Austria" [Es begann an der Uni Wien 10 Jahre Internet in Österreich]. http://comment.univie.ac.at (in German). Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. Retrieved 2014-02-10. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "ACOnet: Services". aco.net. Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. ↑ "Domänenverwaltung GV.AT : IT und Infrastruktur : E-Government : Digitales Österreich" [Domain Management GV.AT: IT Infrastructure and E-Government: Digital Austria]. digitales.oesterreich.gv.at (in German). Vienna, Austria: Digital Austria, Federal Chancellery of Austria. Retrieved 2017-07-30. ">

Coordinates: 47°49′22″N 13°02′32″E / 47.8228°N 13.0421°E / 47.8228; 13.0421

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