.at

Register a .at domain

The Austrian extension, run by nic.at GmbH in Salzburg. Open to anyone anywhere, with no local presence test, but the registration is an open-ended contract rather than a fixed annual term.

Extension type: Country-code (ccTLD)
Who can register: Open to anyone
Registry: nic.at GmbH
Renews at: CHF 10.00 / year

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.at pricing

.at prices by registration term
Term	1 year
Registration For a name nobody currently holds.	CHF 9.00
Renewal Every term after that. This is the number that matters most, so it sits on the same screen as the first one.	CHF 10.00
Transfer in Moving an existing name to us. Adds a year to the term rather than restarting it.	Not offered
Restore Recovering a name after it lapsed into redemption. Shown deliberately: it is the expensive one.	CHF 22.05

Each figure is the total for that whole term, resolved live from the same pricing engine that charges your cart, so this page cannot advertise an amount checkout will not honour. Only the terms this registry actually sells are shown; an em-dash means that term is not on offer. A crossed-out price is a standing price a running promotion undercuts. Premium names are priced individually — search the exact name to see its own quote.

Before you register .at

What the price includes: Every .at amount on this page is resolved by the same pricing engine that charges your cart, at the moment the page is built. There is no separate ICANN fee, agency fee or surcharge added later — the figure you see is the figure you pay, in the currency shown.
Premium and reserved names: Some names are classed as premium by the registry and priced individually, usually at the premium rate every year rather than only the first. Search the exact name to see its own quote. If a name's premium status or price changes between your quote and your purchase, the quote is invalidated rather than quietly repriced.
Renewal is not automatic unless you switch it on: Auto-renew is off unless you enable it, and enabling it sets a flag at the registry rather than scheduling a charge here. We email the registrant address before a name expires, so keep a monitored address on the record. If a .at name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .at to us needs the AuthInfo (EPP) code from your current registrar, which they are obliged to give you on request. Where the registry operates a waiting period before a name may move — ICANN imposes one on generic extensions — it is set out in the facts above. That is registry policy, not ours, and we cannot waive it.

Eligibility

Open to anyone, with data obligations attached

Registry: nic.at GmbH, Salzburg, the sole registry for .at.

Anyone may hold a .at name: private individuals with legal capacity, companies, associations and public bodies. No Austrian residence, address or commercial register entry is required.
There is no approval or validation step. If the name is free, registration completes immediately and nothing is held for review.
Organisations must be recorded with their complete legal name and legal form. nic.at treats holder data as contract data, and a name registered to an incomplete entity is a name with a defect in it.
The caveat most buyers miss is dated: Austria's NISG 2026, the national implementation of NIS2, was passed on 12 December 2025 and takes effect on 1 October 2026. From that date a telephone number becomes a mandatory holder field, and nic.at and providers must be able to show holder data is complete and accurate on request.

What you are actually buying

nic.at GmbH in Salzburg is the only body that can delegate a .at name, and it has run the extension as a private Austrian company rather than under an ICANN registry agreement. That is the reason several habits carried over from .com do not apply here: there is no auto-renew grace period, no redemption period in the ICANN sense, and no 60-day transfer lock after registration. The rules are nic.at's own and they are set in its registration guidelines and general terms.

The most useful difference is the shape of the contract. A .at registration is a continuing obligation with no end date, invoiced in annual service periods, and it ends when it is cancelled or revoked rather than when a clock runs out. In practice that feels like an annual renewal, but it explains why cancellation has a deadline tied to the service period rather than an expiry date, and why a lapse is treated as a termination of a live contract rather than as an expiry you can quietly undo.

Holder data becomes a live obligation on 1 October 2026

Austria implemented NIS2 through the NISG 2026, passed on 12 December 2025 and in force from 1 October 2026. From that date registries and providers are obliged to ensure holder data is complete and accurate, and holders owe a duty to co-operate when asked. nic.at has published the escalation it will run: a first request with 14 days to respond, a final request with a further 7, then serverHold, which takes the domain out of the DNS without ending the contract. Once serverHold is set you have 30 days to correct the data or evidence it before the domain is revoked and deleted. nic.at is explicit that not every holder will be asked, only records where the check finds a discrepancy.

As a reseller our job here is unglamorous and matters more than the registration itself: we keep the holder record correct, we keep the billing and holder addresses on mailboxes that a person actually reads, and we pass registry correspondence on rather than letting it sit in a shared inbox. We are not the registry, so we cannot waive a nic.at deadline, but almost every .at domain that gets lost is lost to an unread email rather than to a policy.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .at actually commits you to

Term and renewal: At the registry a .at registration is a continuing obligation with no fixed expiry date: it runs until you cancel it or nic.at revokes it. Billing runs in annual service periods, and a cancellation only takes effect if it reaches the registry before the next service period begins.
If you miss the renewal: There is no gTLD-style 30-day redemption period. From the moment of cancellation the name is locked, stops resolving and is marked pending delete in the WHOIS. nic.at describes that technical lock as running for approximately eight weeks; Openprovider, the registrar platform we register through, records the reactivation window as 55 days. Recovery inside it is a registry-side operation handled through us, not a self-service button, so tell us early.
Transfer between providers: Transfers run on an AuthInfo code, which the holder can request from the current provider at any time. If that provider will not hand it over, nic.at issues a confirmation token directly to the holder: it is valid for 21 days and is bound to the specific gaining provider. ICANN's 60-day post-registration lock is a gTLD rule and does not govern .at.
Registrant data in the WHOIS: nic.at does not publish the data of natural persons. Data of legal persons is published, which nic.at attributes to NIS2 and the NISG 2026. If your holder is a company, treat the contact address and email on the domain as public and use a role address rather than a named person's mailbox.
Registrant names and characters: nic.at's IDN table adds exactly 34 characters to a-z and 0-9, so umlauts and accented Latin letters register normally. The sharp s is not on that list, which surprises German-speaking buyers: strasse.at works, the ß spelling does not. Names are stored in the DNS as an xn-- ACE string, and .co.at and .or.at are available alongside the second level.

Fit

Who .at is for

Selling into Austria
For an Austrian customer .at is the default guess, and Austrian search behaviour treats it as the local address. A German .de site does not inherit that trust.
Companies with no Austrian entity
You do not need a GmbH in Vienna, an Austrian address or a trustee. Foreign companies register .at names directly, and no documentary evidence is requested.
Not the right buy for a purely German market
If Germany is the market and Austria is an afterthought, .de is the better primary and .at is a defensive registration. Buying .at first and redirecting it does not win Austrian traffic on its own.

Covering the whole DACH market

Most businesses selling into Austria also sell into Germany, and .de runs on a completely different contract model with its own TRANSIT safety net. Worth reading before you buy the pair.

View .de domains

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be based in Austria to register a .at domain?

No. .at has no residency, address or company registration requirement, and there is no trustee service to buy. Individuals need legal capacity to enter a contract, and organisations must be recorded with their full legal name and legal form.

How long does a .at registration last?

At the registry it has no expiry date. It is a continuing obligation that runs until it is cancelled or revoked, invoiced in annual service periods. A cancellation has to reach the registry before the next service period starts, which is why we ask for notice rather than accepting one on the day.

What happens if I stop paying for my .at domain?

The domain is locked, stops resolving and shows as pending delete in the WHOIS. nic.at puts that state at approximately eight weeks and Openprovider records the reactivation window as 55 days, after which the name is released and anyone can register it. There is no ICANN-style redemption process, so contact us inside the lock period rather than after it.

Is there a lock that stops me transferring a new .at domain?

No ICANN-style 60-day lock applies to .at. The holder can request the AuthInfo code from the current provider at any time. If the provider refuses, nic.at will send a confirmation token to the holder direct; it is valid for 21 days and only works for the gaining provider named in the request.

Will my details be public in the .at WHOIS?

If the holder is a natural person, no: nic.at withholds that data. If the holder is a legal person, yes, the data is published, and nic.at points to NIS2 and the NISG 2026 as the reason. For company registrations we recommend a role address such as info@ rather than a named individual's mailbox.