We do not know for sure when it will happen, but 2023 could lead us toward an important goal: 3.5 million .it names. A story coming from afar that of .it, from 23 December 1987 (the date of registration of the first domain name, cnuce.cnr.it), until today: an unstoppable growth, marked by "accelerations" at the time of the .it name boom - on the threshold of the 2000s - and by "slowdowns" due to the economic crisis over the years, which has united many country code Top Level Domains and, recently, the flick of the tail of the pandemic.
In this first four-month period of the year, numbers in hand, the trend of registration of new .it domains (0.71%) turns out to be slightly more than double, compared to the same examination period last year (0.34%), and still greater than the increase recorded in the whole of 2022, which ended with a growth rate of 0.50%. The increase in new registrations at the beginning of the year positively marks this first four-month period and bodes well for the numbers in the coming months and the achievement of the coveted goal of 3million and 500 thousand .it names.
Registro .it concluded the cycle of the new edition of What a Digital World with an episode on neuromorphic computing, hardware and software attempting to duplicate the human brain and the network of neurons that characterize our brain area. All episodes, from the first and second editions are available on the Registro .it website.
The Ludoteca project by Registro .it continues promoting the Internet culture among the younger generation, participating in events such as Didacta and Earth Italy; and moving down the road of digital education with the "Super Cyber Kids" project, funded by the Erasmus+ program, which aims to design new teaching methods and tools to teach cybersecurity in schools.
Lots of news coming from the world of the Net, and in particular from the ICANN and CENTR: from the former, new insights come on the Report of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) 2022 and on "Infermal", ICANN's new project that aims to identify, right from the request of applicants, malicious domain names and counter them with possible measures to mitigate the damage in TLDs (Top Level Domain); from the latter, insights on the protection of Geographical Indication (GI) trademarks in the food sector, a topic that affects, consequently, domain names as well.