Country extension · Italy
.it domain name
Register or transfer your .it with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .it and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .it
- Country
- Italy
- Registry
- nic.it
- Registration period
- 1 year
- Domain name length
- 3 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 6 to 32 characters
- Transfer lock available
- no
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 6
- Renewable after expiry date
- 13 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .it?
- You can only register a .it domain if you, as an individual or organisation, are based in or belong to an EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
- If you don't meet this requirement, you can register a .it domain with a local address through a trustee service.
- As an individual, you declare that you're a national of, or live in, one of the permitted countries. As an organisation, you declare that you're based in one of those countries.
- You declare that you're entitled to use the domain name and that doing so doesn't infringe anyone else's rights.
- You agree to the registry's registration and management rules and its dispute resolution rules. You also accept Italian jurisdiction and law.
- If you provide incorrect or false information, the registry will revoke the domain name immediately or take other legal action. You can't then make any claims against the registry.
Additional details for registration
- You state what type of registrant you are. Examples include individual, company or sole trader, freelancer or professional, non-profit organisation, public body or another type of organisation.
- Some of these registrant types only apply to Italy. Companies and organisations from another permitted country fall into a separate category for foreign organisations.
- You provide your nationality. This must be one of the permitted countries.
- You provide an identification number. If you're an individual living in Italy, this is your 16-character Codice Fiscale. If you're an individual living elsewhere, you can use your ID document number.
- If you're not an individual, you provide your VAT number or your numeric Codice Fiscale.
- If you have an address in Italy, you also provide the official two-letter province code.
- You must give consent for your data to be processed for the registration. Without this consent, the registration can't be completed.
- Only individuals can refuse to have their personal data made public. For all other registrant types, consent to publication is mandatory.
Good to know when registering
- If you register through the trustee service, the registration isn't immediate. There's first a check that can take up to 3 days.
- You always register a .it domain for one year.
Transfer
Transferring a .it
- You need a transfer code for a transfer. The registrant or the administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The new registrar uses this code to start the transfer.
- The current registrar has 5 days to approve or reject the transfer. If nothing happens during that period, the registry approves the transfer automatically.
- After a successful transfer, the new expiry date becomes the date the transfer was completed, plus one year.
The transfer code
- A transfer code is required to transfer a .it domain.
- You get the code from the current registrar. Only the registrant or the administrative contact can request it.
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Owner
Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- For a change of registrant, the new registrant must agree to the registry's registration terms and declarations, just as with a new registration.
- The new registrant provides the same details as for a registration: the registrant type, the identification number and a choice about publishing personal data. This isn't necessary if you use the trustee service.
- The registrant and the administrative contact can't be changed at the same time. The registrant is updated first, and the administrative contact afterwards in a separate step.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- A .it domain is always renewed one year at a time. You can't choose to renew for a longer period yourself.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.it
- Dispute resolution policy nic.it
- Registry terms and conditions nic.it
Compiled from the registry's rules. Registries sometimes change their rules; if in doubt, the registry's terms take precedence. Updated on 11/11/2026.