The year 2024 came to an end with a fluctuating trend for .it names between registrations and cancellations, with the latter often prevailing. Indeed, in the last four months of 2024 there was a general increase in cancellations, compared to the same period in 2023. The total difference, during the last four months of 2024, is almost 14 thousand domains, lower than the equivalent four-month period of last year (16 thousand domains).
The Registro will be committed to new initiatives aimed at enhancing the .it name and promoting its use, starting in Bari at the end of February, at the BTM Italia 2025 (BTM - Business Tourism Management) trade fair, where there will be a Registro stand available to Registrars who join the initiative. BTM is the privileged place to talk about ‘digital tourism’ and meet businesses in the tourism sector. It will be an unmissable opportunity, also for Registrars, to meet with SMEs and experts in the sector, and convince them that that journey that began on the Internet can be made with .it, under the banner of Italianness, seizing the opportunity that the Internet and the .it offer.
Among the outstanding news of this beginning of the year was the publication of the new technical guidelines of the Registro .it, an essential part of the 'Regulation for the assignment and management of domain names in the ccTLD .it’, which came into force on 13 January 2025. These documents describe in detail all technical aspects relating to the registration and maintenance of domain names. Over the years, the Guidelines have been adapted to changes in the Regulation and to facilitate the operations of Registrars.
Joining three task forces of Centr (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries) by the Systems and Technological Development Unit of the Registro .it is yet another noteworthy innovation listed in this publication (‘address check’, ‘web classification’, ‘web crawling’). Task forces, in general, are a new system of collaboration between registries, created to support Centr and its community.
The dissemination and responsible use of the Internet is one of the primary objectives of the Registro .it, which - through the Ludoteca, the protagonist of many events - aims at educating the youth on the correct use of digital tools and the opportunities of the Net, without neglecting the risks that might astonish those with less experience and learning how to avoid them, by developing basic IT security rules.
In conclusion, a look at the European panorama was a must, with an in-depth look at Geographical Indications (GIs), which establish intellectual property rights for specific products whose qualities are specifically linked to the production area. The aim of the article is to understand the current European legislation and its impact on domain names.
For more information, we invite you to read the latest 2024 issue of the .it Quarter.
Have a good read!