.it domains: an EU eligibility rule and a flat fee

Who may hold .it

A company elsewhere in the EU qualifies, because the requirement covers the Union rather than Italy alone. The holder data has to be correct, though — the registry verifies it and rejects applications from outside the permitted area.

This sets .it apart from open extensions such as .es or .nl, where no connection to the country is needed at all.

The same price every year

At a Polish registrar registration and renewal both cost 70 PLN net (August 2026), with transfers at 82,80 PLN. Five years therefore come to 350 PLN net.

For comparison, five years of a .pl name reach 312 PLN even though its first year costs a third of the Italian one. Flat pricing looks expensive at the start and rarely is by the end.

Checking availability

The .it registry is absent from the RDAP bootstrap, so no authoritative registry answer is available. Checks rely on DNS and return an indication — the same situation as .de and .eu.

Before you register

Read the current eligibility rules and prepare accurate company details. With .it, incorrect holder data is not a detail to fix later but a reason for the application to be refused.

Accented letters are allowed

Italian names carry accents, and the registry supports them: an address such as caffè.it is a valid registration. The DNS still sees the encoded form beginning with xn--, and both spellings point at the same domain.

Whether you should use one is a different question. An accented address is harder to dictate over the phone and some older business systems mangle it. The usual compromise is to register both forms and use the unaccented one as your primary address.