nic.at GmbH, based in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

, is the

domain name registry A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a do ...

for the

country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all ...

.at .at is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Austria. It is administered by nic.at. Second-level domains The .at top-level domain has a number of second-level domains: * .ac.at (reserved for academic institutions, especially u ...

. "AT" is the

ISO 3166 ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., ...

country code for

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. Nic.at is owned by the

Internet Foundation Austria The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

and has 30 employees. From 1988 until 1998, the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...

was the domain name registry for .at domains. 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'' entral Computer Science Serviceof the University of Vienna administers the academic domain ''.ac.at'' which is exclusively reserved for the academic and school environment. The

Federal Chancellery of Austria In Austrian politics, the Federal Chancellery (german: Bundeskanzleramt, lit=federal chancellery, abbreviated ; historically also and ) is the ministry led by the chancellor. Since the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1918, the Ch ...

administers the governmental domain, .gv.at.

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