At the end of a certainly unforgettable year 2020, this nic//report provides exciting insights and facts about the topic "COVID-19" and its impact on the domain industry.
As digitisation progresses, illegal online content unfortunately is also becoming increasingly common. No wonder, then, that the pressure on the so-called country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) to help in the fight against illegal online content is also growing. But what can ccTLD registries actually contribute as technical operators in the Internet infrastructure? CENTR explains the tasks of ccTLDs and their role in connection with online content in the recently published explanatory video.
Even COVID-19 does not stop our nic.at team from getting involved in a good cause: This is proven by the 2,941.66 kilometers we covered in the course of the Charity Challenge 2020 in the last weeks and months for the benefit of the “Herzkinder Österreich”. Last week the time had come: The ceremonial check handover took place on a small scale and of course in compliance with the necessary Corona safety rules.
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.