.at
| Status: | Active |
| Country: | Austria |
| Introduced: | January 20, 1988 |
| Manager: | nic.at GmbH |
| Registry Provider: | nic.at GmbH |
| Type: | ccTLD |
| Website: | nic.at |
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.at is the ccTLD for Austria. It is managed by nic.at GmbH.[1], which is also .at's registry.[2]
Rules and Restrictions edit
In general, .at domains can be registered by anyone, regardless of whether the registering party is a private individual, a company, association or organisation. The domain holder indicated must be either a natural person or an organisation (legal entity). An organisation must be specified with its full and valid legal form.
Private individuals must be of full legal age and capable of entering into binding contracts.
Organisations with their own legal personality (e.g. OG, GmbH, associations, etc.) must be specified in the organisation field - giving with their complete name and including any specification of legal form. If the name field (optional) also indicates a person, this person will merely be considered a contact person, but not a domain holder.
For organisations without their own legal personality, a natural person who is also the domain holder must be specified additionally in the name field. (Example: The organisation is Boarding House Sample and the name field says Sam Sample. This means Sam Sample is the domain holder, provided that Boarding House Sample does not have its own legal personality).[2]
Second-level Domains edit
".or.at", ".co.at", ".ac.at" and ".gv.at" are availablefor registration. However, only ".or.at" and ".co.at" are managed by nic.at.
Domains below ".ac.at" (academic) are reserved for universities and schools and can be registered at the Austrian Academic Computer Network ACOnet. ".gv.at" is for governmental use and can be registered via the Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria.[2]
Characters edit
Domain names under .at, co.at, and .or.at must contain at least one character and may be no more than 63 characters long.
A valid domain name may contain letters ("a-z"), numbers ("0-9"), hyphens ("-"), and Internationalized Domain Name IDN characters. The name must not start or end with a hyphen. Also, for technical reasons, a domain name must not contain two hyphens at the third and fourth position.[2] The accepted characters can be seen at this table.