.it, the Italian ccTLD, has passed 1.5 million registrations. .it is the fifth ccTLD in Europe and the seventh in the world to reach this milestone. Today there are more than 1,553,000 names registered.
Marking this achievement, Domenico Laforenza, Director of Iit-Cnr, who
manages the registry, said that while they are proud of achieving the
1.5 million domain registrations, they are determined to improve their
service and lessen the bureaucracy when registering .it domain names
including verification of registration at the time the registration
takes place.
The changes are planned to take place sometime in 2009 and will be
accompanied by a campaign to alert Italians to the benefits of holding
a .it domain name. It is intended the changes will substantially boost
the number of .it domain names registered.
To reach the 1.5 million registrations, registrations have been booming
in 2009. There have been a minimum of 25,000 registrations each month
this year, peaking in May when there were 30,243 registrations.
To register your .it domain name, check out EuroDNS here.