.it domains

Name: .it domains
Brand: MrDomain
SKU: mrdomain-domain-it

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Europe: 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.

.it domain rates and features

Domain rates .it

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

Features

Residency requirements
Special DNS requirements
Domain length between 2 and 63 characters
IDN characters are permitted
Allows DNS modification
DNSSEC
The transfer extends the expiration date by one year from the date of termination

.it domain life cycle

Domain available

Domain registration

Domain active

Expiration date

12 days

Renew grace period

30 days

Redemption period

5 days

Pending delete

Deletion date

Domain available

 Renew Grace Period

 Redemption Period

 Pending Delete

.it domain regulations

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: DNSSEC: What is it and how does it work.

Domain owner change

To execute ownership changes for .IT domains you will need to open a ticket regarding this.

This process has a cost of €7.95 and does not involve domain renewal.

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.

Unicode Script	Hyphen (-)	Digits (0-9)	Characters (a-z)
By default	Yes	Yes	Yes

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.