Not all domain name extensions are easy to register. Now your .com, .net, .org are all easy enough to lay your hands on.

What about your .nl? Your .pt? You can’t forget about the .bf either. How you you lay your hands on an oddball domain name extension? Well listen up – I have an easy solution.

I don’t use Wikipedia for much, but this is one area where they really excel at. Here you can look up all the top-level domains and find out a plethora of information about each one. For example, lets look at the .at extension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.at

Now you know that this is the internet country code top-level domain for Austria. It is administered by nic.at. Now by going to nic.at or any of the other domain extension administrators and find out where and how to register it.

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