The Austrian ccTLD passed the one million active registrations milestone on 10 January. Of the registered domains, 96.28 per cent of domains (currently 962,987) are registered at the second level, while there are 30,093 (3.01%) .CO.AT domains and 7,146 (0.71%) OR.AT domains, making a total of 1,000,226 active domains at the close of business on 10 January.

      Registrations for .AT commenced in 1988 when the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .AT was delegated to the University of Vienna. Over the next ten years, the university also served as the .AT registry.

      Initially there were restrictive registration policies that were liberalised in 1997 leading to a sharp rise in registration numbers. One year later, nic.at took over the registration and administration of .AT domains.

      Registration growth has been around 90,000 per year for the last three years after the introduction of free internationalised .AT domains in October and November 2006 that saw registrations grow by an incredible 234,686. In 2007 once this free issue of domains ended many of the domains were deleted leading to growth of only 13,161, but since then growth has stabilised.

Source from Domain News