.it domains

Italy

The Country code top-level domain for Italy is .IT and was created in 1987. It was opened to particulars the year 2004, and has approximately 20,000 domains registered monthly. The .IT domains are managed by Nic.it

This Country code has approximately 3 million registered domains.

Rates and features

.it

7,95 €

It's mandatory for the registrant to be an European resident or a company located in the European Community.

New period when transfer completes

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	7,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	15,90 €	Includes domain renewal for 1 year	-

Features
Domain length:	2 - 63 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's mandatory for the registrant to be an European resident or a company located in the European Community.
Transfer system:	The expiration date changes but a new year isn't added. The new expiration date will be created adding a year to the transfer completion date.

Regulations

.it domain life cycle

				12 days	30 days	5 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date				Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Renew grace period	Redemption period	Pending delete		Domain available

Renew Grace Period
Redemption Period
Pending Delete

Permitted characters / IDN

.it domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.
IDN characters are permitted in .it domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .it domains

An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is a domain name that can contain non ASCII characters.

Hyphen (-)
Digits (0-9)
Characters (a-z)

Character	Unicode	HTML Code	HTML Number	Unicode Table

LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
ß	U+00DF	ß	ß	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
à	U+00E0	à	à	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
â	U+00E2	â	â	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
ä	U+00E4	ä	ä	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
æ	U+00E6	æ	æ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
ç	U+00E7	ç	ç	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
è	U+00E8	è	è	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ê	U+00EA	ê	ê	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
ë	U+00EB	ë	ë	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
ì	U+00EC	ì	ì	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
î	U+00EE	î	î	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
ï	U+00EF	ï	ï	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
ò	U+00F2	ò	ò	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ô	U+00F4	ô	ô	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ö	U+00F6	ö	ö	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
ù	U+00F9	ù	ù	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
û	U+00FB	û	û	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü	U+00FC	ü	ü	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
ÿ	U+00FF	ÿ	ÿ	Latin-1 Supplement

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
œ	U+0153	&oelig;	œ	Latin Extended-A

IDN domains don't permit to mix different Scripts or character sets (for example, Latin, Greek or Cyrillic).
But it's possible to use different character tables for a same script.
- The Latin Script permits the use of characters of Latin-1 supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, etc.. tables.
- The Greek Script permits to combine characters of the Greek, Greek Extended, etc.. tables, doesn't permit combine them with the normal latin characters (a-z), but permits the use of numbers or hyphens.
- Other script types have their own corresponding tables.

Residency requirements

It's mandatory for the registrant to be an European resident or a company located in the European Community.

Technical requirements

.IT domains require the DNS to be active on different subnets and to be authoritative for the domain at the time of registration. You can check if they pass these minimum requirements using our Zone Check tool.

Registrations

.it domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To perform .IT domain transfers you will need to have the AuthCode or EPP-Key, you can ask your current registrar in order to obtain this code.

Renewals

When renewing a .IT domain, your new expiration date will not be displayed until 15 days after the original expiration date.

The .IT domains don't have grace period if they expire, they will be registered for a few weeks until the Registry proceeds to his elimination.

Cancellations

.IT Domains can't be canceled.

DNS modifications

DNS modification is immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .it domains. Your domain can take advantage of this additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this technology can provide.
More information is available at: What is DNSSEC and how does it work