20 years birthday for .it extension: on 23 December 1987 CNR.it was in fact the first Italian domain registered for the Informatics and Telematics Institute of Pisa National Research Institute (that owns still today the Internet.it register).

Italian domains are in the sixth place among the others, requested all over the net also abroad.

Italian domains are about 1 million and half as today, even if activation and modification procedures are slower and more bureaucratic than the others.