The new Austrian short domains are coming!

Austria is on the threshold of a new era in domains with new one and two character domains being unveiled.

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.at is a lovely domain hack mind you

 

worth a punt? or not? Never been a fan of domain hacks myself but short yes.

 

Many other domain name release auctions including those which occured some years ago at the third level for *.uk? The potential to generate many short, and some rude and potentially offensive, span-the-dot words? What were you thinking?

A punt for what? Which domain names, specifically? c.at, f.at, dr.at, tw.at? There are so many combinations that have meaning. Many will be acquired at sunrise and the good ones will be earmarked and probably sell fairly highly in my personal opinion.

 

I wasn't thinking of any specifically.. just in general was wondering if anyone saw potential for resale in some.

 

Yes. I think it's quite obvious that there's potential, if one had the budget to acquire those that could be worthwhile ones.

b.at - domain hack and potentially relevant to bat.com / British American Tobacco or others.
c.at - domain hack and potentially relevant to cat.com / Caterpillar or others.

There will be hundreds I would imagine.

 

I suspect that most of these short domains will find ownership with their respective copyright owners, such as those examples highlighted above.

 

Might depend on the sunrise process rules and whether it, for example, only applies to Austrian TM holders and whether the TM has to be for the second level domain name element only rather than include the .at element.

Ultimately those with the money will eventually prevail and buy what they want from whomever gets what they want.

 

Hacks are useless unless they are relevant shorteners.