In mid-September 2020, a total of 45 Salzburg companies and institutions were awarded the "Quality Seal for Workplace Health Promotion (BGF)" by the Austrian Health Insurance Fund - including nic.at. This is the highest Austrian award for exemplary and sustainable investments in the health of employees.

Every few weeks, our Research & Development team analyses the home pages of all .at websites with regard to their language. This is done not only to get a more detailed overview of the .at-zone, but also for security reasons. After all, if the language of a website suddenly changes, this could sometimes indicate a hacking incident.

Very simple and convenient: If you have registered your domain directly with nic.at, you can easily make settings and changes yourself in the login area.

Sometimes it is necessary to change the registrar or provider - for example when two households are merged. To ensure that this change runs smoothly, there are a few things that should be observed - otherwise there could be unpleasant surprises afterwards.

Registrar, registrant, registry ... the terms in the world of domains can sometimes be quite complicated. Not so easy to keep the overview!

Sometimes it happens that a domain is no longer needed - and then it is important to carry out the cancellation correctly to avoid unpleasant surprises afterwards.

Every successful website needs a well thought-out domain strategy at the beginning. No matter if umlauts, hyphens or typos - there are a lot of things to consider!

Have you ever experienced that the desired domain name is taken? Or the really good word creation just doesn't work? This is where the nic.at domain finder comes in: It guarantees that you will find the right .at-domain!

No matter if webspace, online store or security features: With the .at Partnerfinder you can easily filter according to the desired criteria and get suitable suggestions for the right partner provider within seconds!

The Belgian registry DNS Belgium and ipcom (sister company of nic.at) have signed a cooperation agreement. All domains managed by DNS Belgium will additionally be hosted on the RcodeZero DNS anycast network powered by nic.at. The Belgian registry is responsible for the overall management of .be, .vlaanderen and .brussels with around 1.6 million domains.

The Austrian Public Service Blockchain (APSB) is an initiative from the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Wirtschaftskammer) and other public administration institutions - it enables electronic documents to be stored at a specific point in time with a corresponding time stamp. One of the so-called "Blockchain nodes" of the APSB is operated in nic.at's R&D Lab.

ipcom (sister company of nic.at) is pleased to welcome three important European top level domains within its anycast network RcodeZero DNS. Both, the Finnish registry (TRAFICOM) and the Irish registry (IE Domain Registry) have already been able to convince themselves of the reliable service in the past weeks and implemented RcodeZero as secondary DNS provider to strengthen their DNS infrastructure. The Slovenian Registry (ARNES) has been using RcodeZero for many years and has extended its contract.

It is easier to identify COVID-19 diseases in an advanced stage by means of X-ray and computer tomography (CT) of the lungs, rather than by conventional PCR tests of throat swabs. nic.at employee Aaron Kaplan and his brother Hamilton have now developed an AI (artificial intelligence) device in their Vienna AI laboratory "Deep Insights", which is able to diagnose the so-called corona virus with a sensitivity rate of more than 90 percent, which could support diagnosis in hospitals. 

The price at which a domain is traded on the market depends on several factors. There are numerous tools that can help with a valuation. However, the results should be treated with caution.

With this nic//report - packed with articles about the exciting presentations of our speakers as well as numerous photos - we look back on a successful Domain pulse 2020 in Innsbruck. By the way: You can find the complete articles online in our news section.