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/ nic.at News - 16.06.2023 10:38
"Time and trust plays an important role in search engine optimisation"

Every company wants to appear as close to the top of Google's search results as possible. After all, what good is even the best website if no-one can find it? In an interview, SEO expert Thomas Czernik from digital agency pixelart explains the role that domain strategy has to play in discoverability and how people can improve their ranking with just a few small steps.

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/ nic.at News - 17.04.2023 07:37
nic.at celebrates 1.5 million registered .at domains

This month, nic.at has reason to celebrate: the Austrian domain registry has reached the incredible milestone of 1,500,000 registered .at domains.

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/ nic.at News - 06.03.2023 07:54
New RcodeZero DNS TLD Anycast node in Geneva

For TLD operators, permanent availability, optimal performance, short response times and maximum protection of the DNS infrastructure are of the highest priority. To guarantee this, Anycast technology has become industry standard and almost every TLD has one or more Anycast providers.

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/ Events - 15.02.2023 06:50
SAVE THE DATE – Domain pulse 2024 in Vienna

Last week, Domain pulse 2023, organised by our Swiss SWITCH colleagues, was a success. At the end of the event, the traditional handover of the baton took place and it was announced where the next Domain pulse would take place.

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/ nic.at News - 16.01.2023 07:50
“I use my domain to show that I am rooted in Austria."

Karin Zeiler writes copy and designs texts for companies from all over the German-speaking world. She secured her domain www.textur.co.at back in 2006. In an interview she reveals why she is very happy with it, despite the fact that it was actually her second choice.

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/ nic.at News - 21.12.2022 14:04
nic.at fulfils pupils a heart's desire for Christmas

This year we are again supporting the “Kindertraum” foundation and fulfilling a heart's desire for the general special school in Lower Austria. 

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/ nic.at News - 20.12.2022 12:00
“It’s better to register multiple domains with keywords.“

Anja Kainz runs a travel agency offering personalised holiday experiences in Sri Lanka. For the Austrian native, her website – www.sri-tours.at – is the most important marketing tool of all. So it stands to reason that the entrepreneur took steps to secure a large number of domains.

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/ nic.at News - 10.11.2022 06:03
"If we had taken too long over the registration, the domain would no longer have been available."

The Gartenfuchs plant nursery has been in family hands for 70 years. For the flower-loving family, their website is their calling card – but they did not snap up the gartenfuchs.at domain until the very last moment.

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/ nic.at News - 19.10.2022 11:36
Iceland is new RcodeZero DNS TLD costumer

Another European top-level domain, Iceland, has selected the Anycast service RcodeZero DNS. The registry ISNIC (Internet á Íslandi hf) based in Reykjavík manages and operates the technical infrastructure for the country-specific top-level domain .is.

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/ nic.at News - 05.10.2022 01:19
"Better to overdo it a little and secure a lot of domains"

Daniel Donhauser is the co-founder of the three Maikai fitness studios in Salzburg. Maikai’s mission is to stand out from other gyms through its high-tech equipment. And the domain strategy is an important marketing tool for this. In our interview, Donhauser explains why the company has registered several .at domains.

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