A brief content overview of the first 2025 issue of Quarter .it, highlighting the main themes, is now online. Quarter .it is the quarterly web magazine by Registro .it that features statistics, events, news, and insights about the .it domain and the digital world.
The main focus of this issue is the European NIS2 Directive: a complex challenge, but at the same time an evolutionary opportunity for the entire domain name management ecosystem, which is called upon to adopt new security standards and share greater responsibility. NIS2 cuts across and involves all areas of Registro’s activities, from legal and management areas to technical and operational aspects.
Geographical Indications (GIs) are a key instrument for the protection and enhancement of agri-food products linked to specific European Union (EU) territories.
Existing European GIs legislation aims to ensure the protection of product names that possess certain qualities, reputation or other characteristics attributable to their geographical origin. It has been the subject of updates and amendments, also to address and discuss the impact of the issue on domain names.
Over the years, the Ludoteca of the Registro .it, which was set up in 2011 with the aim of promoting digital culture among the younger generations, has tried to propose training courses to schools of all levels to stimulate classroom discussion on crucial issues related to the world of the Internet.
In recent years, the Ludoteca has placed greater focus on cybersecurity, the gender gap in STEM fields, and "Artificial Intelligence”.
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).
We do not know for sure when it will happen, but 2023 could lead us toward an important goal: 3.5 million .it names.
Domini .it keeps growing, a new contract and the communication campaign; these are only a few news included in the first issue of the Quarterly Report 2019 of the Registro .it includes an increased section related to the statistics on the operating records and confidential names. Certainly, as usual, the updates on roadshow for the companies in the Registro, the number and the seminars of the game room and the technical updates on the latest guidelines, enforced on 2 May, are not lacking.
Looking at the figures, there are 147,000 new domains registered in this time frame, although the number of cancellations exceeded new registrations by more than 10,000 domains. But this is nothing new; last year in the same four-month period the gap had been larger (by more than 12,000). .it names, therefore, albeit in small steps, continue to grow.
