.IT Domain Policies

.IT is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy.

Registration details

Registration details can be found in the TLD reference chart.

Residency requirements

Resident or citizen of an EU country required.

We do not accept incoming .IT domain transfers. .IT domains are auto-renew-only and will delete 30 days before the expiration if not set to auto-renew.  There is no charge when changing ownership,  and the registration term does not change.  You will need to contact support to update the contact details.

The following DNS requirements must be pre-configured for any domain name registered:

• The servers' IP addresses must be static and correspond to those associated.
• The first nameserver must be the same as indicated in the Server of Authority (SOA) record of the domain name.
• A CNAME must not be associated with the domain name.
• The name of the nameserver specified in the SOA cannot be a CNAME.
• At least one MX or A record must exist for the domain name.
• Where an MX record is listed, it must not have an associated CNAME.
• The servers must not give the following responses: not responding, not reachable, not running, non-existent domain, host not found, server failure, query failed.
• Indicated nameservers must be authoritative for the domain name.

Additional Registrant Verification

The .IT registry may flag Registrant contact data found to have incomplete or inaccurate information. In these instances, the registry will reach out to both the Registrant and Enom.

If flagged, domains associated with the registrant contact will continue to resolve for the initial 30 days with the following statuses applied "serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, serverUpdateProhibited". After the initial 30 day period if no corrections have been made, a 45 day period will begin where domains associated with the registrant contact will stop resolving and have the following statues applied "Inactive, serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, serverUpdateProhibited". This allows for up to 75 total days for registrant data corrections to be made. Once the updates are verified by the .IT registry the holds will be removed. 

Registrant Contact data that has not been updated after 75 days will see associated domains placed on an "inactive/serverHold" status by the .IT Registry and fail to resolve. These domains will be deleted by the .IT registry on their expiration date.

In order to update the registrant contact data or if you are unsure what has caused the verification check, please contact our support team for assistance. 

Registry Email to Registrant

Registrant contacts who are flagged may receive Emails from the registry with the following subject(s), These notices indicate the start of data verification, successful data verification, un-successful data verification, unsuccessful verification with registrar deletion, as well as the ending of the initial 30 day period.  

- Start of data accuracy procedure - Registrant <org of the Registrant> 

- Successful conclusion of data accuracy procedure - Registrant <org of Registrant>

- Unsuccessful conclusion of data accuracy procedure - Registrant <org of the Registrant>

- Domains deactivation of data accuracy procedure - Registrant <org of the Registrant>

- Unsuccessful conclusion of data accuracy verification procedure due to expiry of the terms - Registrant <org of the Registrant>

- Unsuccessful conclusion of data accuracy verification procedure and domain name <domain name> cancellation

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