In October 2023, seven years after the last important milestone (3 million .it names in 2016), the Registro added another round figure number, 3 and a half million names, to the abacus of the domain growth, positioning itself thus with .it in the seventh place in Europe and ninth in the global ccTLD ranking (although in a ranking that does not take .tv/tuvalu and .cn/cina into consideration).
The growth rate of .it domains, at the end of 2023, is 0.86%, compared to the end of 2022. From the trend of registrations and cancellations in recent years, it can be deduced that the .it market is stabilising and is remaining stable over time: it is a more mature market, which contrasts with the years of the .it boom. At that time the assignment of a domain was requested without necessarily thinking about its use, or sometimes an attempt at profit or bad faith was hidden in the assignment of a given name.
Today .it also grew in security, considering the new authentication policies of the Registro .it, in order to improve the security of access to applications reserved for Registrars.
Looking at the numbers (1,300, between teenagers and children), the awareness among very young people on the correct use of the Internet is also growing, thanks also to the digital education undertaken by the Ludoteca of Registro .it. This also occurred through ad hoc laboratories, "gamification", and rules to defend yourself against computer fraud, learning to recognise the dangers with notions of cybersecurity. In addition to IT security, digital education continues with the dissemination of educational themes and games of the Ludoteca through many events in which its staff participated, with lessons in schools, in specific contexts and new videos of the "Carpe Digital" project.
In November, the usual annual Registro-Registrar Meeting was held. The meeting was an opportunity to learn about all the activities carried out in 2023, but above all to learn about the forecast for 2024 activities and the future of the Registro.
The usual news arrived from the world of the Internet: we discovered that artificial intelligence is becoming the protagonist and is coming into play in the service of domain name registries. Two agreements have been launched by the Council of the EU, on the proposal that regulates the protection of geographical indications (GI) for wine, spirits in general and agricultural products, and on the regulation of the EUID (European Unique Identifier) code for universal access for people and businesses to secure and reliable electronic identification and authentication.