Register before staying in Vienna

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German-speaking countries often have laws requiring guests to be identifiable. Hotels will typically ask for ID at the time of check-in and copy the needed data to fulfill this requirement.

A quick google search reveals this Austrian law (ยง5 MeldeG), which is directly relevant and indeed requires registration.

It is however purely the decision of the company from which you are renting to implement the requirement in the way you stated. Note that the law requires that the guest needs to sign for the correctness of the data provided, so it is unclear if them utilizing a web page is actually sufficient for satifying the law.

If you find this suspicious, ask for a Fax number from Vienna to which you can send a copy of your passport instead and tell them that you will include a signature to certify the correctness of your data, as required by the said law. The registration is not done by a government authority but rather by the property owner so that he/she can give the information to authorities if needed. So the .cc domain ending itself is not suspicious (but highly uncommon - Austrian domain names are quite cheap).

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