.it is the country-specific Internet Domain (ccTLD) of Italy.

The Italian Republic is as a founding member of the European Union (EU). Italy is located in Southern Europe, comprising the Po River valley, Italian Peninsula, and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.

.it domains are especially suited for companies, NGOs and private persons, who have commercial, political or cultural relations to Italy.

Mandatory prerequisites for registration of a .it domain name are:

• a business or private residence of the domain holder within EU, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican, Norway or Iceland
• for a company the VAT registration number
• for a private person the income tax number or the number of passport or personal id respectively

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