475.768 new .it domains registered in 2022, for a total of 3.467.693 local domains currently on the Net: 0,50% more than in 2021. A result that is inevitably different from the pandemic effect which had marked +2,24 % and even +4,20% respectively in 2021 and 2020.
These are the data collected by the .it Registry, a technical body of the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (Iit) of the Cnr and registry of Italian-registered domains, which detects a year of physiological stagnation for the Italian web - also represented by the data on new registrations , down 13% compared to 2021 – but also a great potential for growth and development for the future.
"We could say that the numbers of the .it Registry are once again the litmus test of the current moment, primarily from a social and economic point of view, not only in terms of innovation and technology", commented Marco Conti, director of the Cnr- Iit and responsible for the .it Registry. “The 2020 of the lockdowns had been the year of the arrival on the Net for those who relied on the web to save their business or to start a new one; 2021 had been the resilient year, that of trust and restart. With these assumptions, after the boom of the last two years, 2022 could only be a year of physiological stagnation for .it: a fact that is also confirmed at a European and global level. And yet, the growth potential of the Italian network is still very high, greater than that of many other European countries".
A similar trend, they add from the .it Registry, had already been seen in the years of the crisis of 2008, when uncertainty and economic emergency - even then - had led to very low rates of .it presence on the Net, to then go back up again starting from 2010- 2011. For this reason, it can be hypothesized that this year's figure was also influenced by the economic consequences of the latest international events, including the still ongoing health emergency, geopolitical crises and repercussions on consumption, businesses and citizens' spending all over the world.
"This stasis is presumably also (not only) the result of the economic effects of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict," comments Conti. “For example, the sudden increase in costs for private individuals and above all for companies, forced to reduce their investments and to take even drastic decisions to keep the business going. But the potential of .it remains very high and we are confident that 2023 will prove to be a turning point for Italian domains and for the country's entire digitization plan".
Confirming a year of stagnation is also the general decline in the categories that the .it Registry monitors on a monthly basis. In fact, breaking down the numbers, category by category, in the period from January to October 2022 it emerges that almost all sectors are decreasing: registrations attributed to natural persons drop by 29% compared to the same period of 2021; as well as those relating to businesses (-14,7%), public entities (-13,9%) and non-profits (-14,5%). Positively for freelancers (+3,1%), who confirm themselves as a category that responds to critical periods by relying on digital technology, as demonstrated by the +35% in 2021, in response to the closures of 2020. The unprecedented outsiders of 2022 are the registrations belonging to the "foreign" category, i.e. the new .it domains registered by citizens and organizations of other European Union countries or by companies with at least one office in the EU which, in the period considered by the study, have a monster growth of 66,7%.
Continuing to analyze the surveys collected by the Registry on the entire .it representation on the web, another interesting fact emerges: of the absolute total of Italians who have registered a .it domain, less than a quarter are women (24,8% against 75,1 .42% male representation). Looking at age, on the other hand, the majority of those who have registered an Italian-registered domain are between 49 and XNUMX years old, for both sexes.
Also in the period examined by the survey, another piece of evidence that emerged from the data collected by the .it Registry is that Southern Italy and the Islands continue to be the "tail light" of digital Italy.
The Cnr-Iit study examines the entire registry of the .it Registry and calculates the index of Internet diffusion in the country on the basis of the penetration rate for each region and province, i.e. how many .it domains are registered for every 10 inhabitants . The survey highlights that the regions of the Centre-North have the highest penetration rate within the country, with Trentino-Alto Adige, Lombardy and Valle d'Aosta in the lead. Further down instead the regions of the South and the Islands, followed by Basilicata, Sicily and Calabria. A very similar situation also for the provinces, where Milan holds the record for penetration rate with 559 domains for every 10.000 inhabitants, followed by Bolzano (495), Florence (462), Rimini (451) and Bologna (443). At the end of the survey, also here, the provinces of the South and the Islands, well below the national average (307) and which occupy all the last ten positions with Crotone (170), Caltanissetta (154) and Enna (146) last in ranking.
Overall, in fact, the North has the highest average penetration rate in the country with 384,9 domains per 10.000 inhabitants, followed by the Center (378,1) and the South and the Islands (236,4).
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