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A domain \(D\) in \(\mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}\) is a \(K\)-quasidisk if it is the image of an open disk or a half plane under a \(K\)-quasiconformal self-map of \(\mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}\). In general, quasidisks can be rather wild but they appear in many different branches of analysis and geometry and they form the ``limiting'' case of smooth domains in many occasions. The paper is mainly devoted to various characterizations of quasidisks. The sections are geometric properties (reflection, inequalities, decomposition), conformal invariants (hyperbolic geometry, harmonic measure, extremal distance), injectivity criteria, extension and continuity, miscellaneous properties (homogeneity, quasiconformal groups, Dirichlet integrals). The article extends the earlier lecture notes [\textit{F. W. Gehring}: Characteristic properties of quasidisks (1982; Zbl 0495.30018)] of the author. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00050].