The start-up and initial growth phase of a company is an exciting time. The domain often plays a subordinate role, yet it is an important component of digital visibility on the internet, and of the marketing strategy. In the beginning, start-ups have a lot of questions: Which domain name is the right one? When do multiple domains make sense? How is SEO related to the choice of domain?

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, it's back: Domain pulse 2022 will take place this year from 17 May to 18 May 2022 at the Plenarsaal in Bonn (Germany).

Data protection and privacy are terms that have been ever-present in the media and our everyday lives for many years now. With the number of ways of exchanging information rising all the time and technological progress accelerating at breakneck speed, both subjects are now a major international priority. The importance of personal data as a sensitive area was formally recognised on 28 January 1981 when the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data was opened for signature by the Council of Europe. Today, 28 January is no longer just observed in Europe, but celebrated the world over as Data Privacy Day. We took this special day as our cue to talk to some of our colleagues whose work at nic.at revolves around data protection.

What would a birthday be without the right music? We have created a playlist on Spotify in honour of the tenth anniversary of our Anycast service RcodeZero DNS.

We look back on a successful year - a year in which we introduced new services and were able to implement numerous projects. Therefore, we would like to share some of our success at Christmas and are proud to support the Stiftung Kindertraum foundation.

An outage or attack on the domain name system (DNS) can have a devastating impact on a company as it affects crucial services, including websites and e-mail systems. So it is essential that the DNS infrastructure is robust and failsafe. And this is where Anycast technology enters the frame: for ten years RcodeZero DNS, operated by nic.at sister company ipcom GmbH, has been keeping top level domain (TLD) issuing authorities’, providers’ and companies’ DNS infrastructure safe.

On September 11, 2021 nic.at reachead a new record. The 1.4 millionth .at domain is called physio-ruttinger.at and was registered by an Austrian domain owner. The self-employed physiotherapist, who already has his own website including a matching .at domain, wants to be found even better on the Internet in the future and has therefore decided on a multi-domain strategy.

In united-domains AG, a subsidiary of United Internet, ipcom GmbH has gained an important international registrar for its Anycast service RcodeZero DNS. The German Internet provider stands for excellent customer support and prioritises top-level security. Therefore, it is obvious that united-domains makes no compromises when it comes to security and that optimised protection of DNS infrastructure is a top priority.

InterNetX, long-time .at partner, asked our Head of Operations, Klaus Darilion, some very interesting questions about DNS security, which we would like to share with you. In the interview, Klaus Darilion explains what DNS security means and how this technology can help us protect domains. He also gives valuable tips on DNSSEC and other relevant security products for those who are particularly concerned about protecting their own domain(s).  

Since December 2020, the RcodeZero DNS Anycast network is protected from DDoS attacks by three independent DDoS mitigation providers on a global scale. After a long evaluation phase, Klaus Darilion, Head of Operations, has chosen Cloudflare's "Magic Transit" product of different providers, because a reliable DDoS defense solution is comparable to an insurance.