dot·sweep

Who can register a .it domain?

Registration starts at $6.80 and renewal at $5.62 a year.

Who may register

Registrant must be a citizen of, resident in, or an organisation established in the EU/EEA, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, San Marino or Vatican City.

What it costs

Registration$6.80 / year
Renewal$5.62 / year
Transfer$6.80
Smallest possible first bill$6.80

Standard price from Dynadot. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.

Source

Read from the registry's own policy page: https://www.nic.it/en/becoming-registrar/register-domain-name-it. Read on 2026-07-29.

Is a .it name free?

Availability comes from the registry itself over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.

You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:

curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.it

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