Simply coincidence!

[wot]

In the past couple of weeks I have "registered" and submitted the relevant documentation for two .it using two different registrars.

First one, after five days of pushing registrar finally advises that my faxed application has been rejected - no reason given at that time or since.

OK no problem -then I check the name again- registered to an Italian address -four days after my initial registration -hmmm.

Undaunted, I see another good one available but decide to use a different registrar. The name is "registered" pending my sending the relevant fax to the same office as before in Italy.

The documents were duly faxed 6 days ago.

Guess what, you are right- the faxed application was again rejected (Paper work provided by them- I simply had to sign and fax).

And guess what, yes- you are right again - the name I had applied for was registered via an Italian address- again four days after my initial "registration".

Anyway, as I said- Simply coincidence. :p

 

[RogueWriter]

Same Italian address or a dif one for each domain?

 

[wot]

Same Italian address or a dif one for each domain?

Different- first thing I checked. :cy:

Simply coincidence.

 

[tkstark]

thought you had to be italian or have an italian connection to register .it names.

 

[wot]

thought you had to be italian or have an italian connection to register .it names.

Restrictions
Only individual and juridical persons residing in or belonging to a EU Member State (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden) can register domain names under the ccTLD "it".

 

[zoogo]

Restrictions
Only individual and juridical persons residing in or belonging to a EU Member State (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden) can register domain names under the ccTLD "it".

Only those emmber states? THere's more EU member states.

 

[wot]

More:

The last registrar was Register.it

The registration failed and to get my money back, 35 euro, they are asking me to send a registered letter as follows:

"Please kindly send us a registered letter with a return receipt declaring:

"The undersigned ____________,declare that I no longer have intention to register the domain name/s____________, and that I guarantee not to send the Letter/s of Undertaking for the said domain/s and have annulled all probable previous Letter of Undertaking to avail of the right to withdraw."

Our address is:

Register.it Spa
via Montessori s/n
24126 Bergamo"

I would suggest these are not people to deal with.

Absolutely ridiculous to have to go through this procedure to get my money back from a FAILED registration.

I will never use these people again and it is up to you should you decide to- caveat emptor!

 

[htmlindex]

More:

The last registrar was Register.it

The registration failed and to get my money back, 35 euro, they are asking me to send a registered letter as follows:

"Please kindly send us a registered letter with a return receipt declaring:

"The undersigned ____________,declare that I no longer have intention to register the domain name/s____________, and that I guarantee not to send the Letter/s of Undertaking for the said domain/s and have annulled all probable previous Letter of Undertaking to avail of the right to withdraw."

Our address is:

Register.it Spa
via Montessori s/n
24126 Bergamo"

I would suggest these are not people to deal with.

Absolutely ridiculous to have to go through this procedure to get my money back from a FAILED registration.

I will never use these people again and it is up to you should you decide to- caveat emptor!

You could do a chargeback if you paid via credit card

 

[zoogo]

Only those emmber states? THere's more EU member states.

Restrictions
Only individual and juridical persons residing in or belonging to a EU Member State (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden) can register domain names under the ccTLD "it".

I also thought .IT removed its requirements, so it seems thats a registrar-only thing and you got punked.

 

[wot]

You could do a chargeback if you paid via credit card

Dispute under way.

 

[thetruman]

.it are apain in the arXX.. I registered a couple for a customer, go rejected at first (for some formal problem...0 but I did at the end

If you are elegible, I can give the name of the registrar I used (price for it is MUCH cheaper as well) and you can check if your submission is succesfull.
is a company owned by aone guy , but is pretty efficient...
let me know!

 

[donnied79]

Hi guys,
.it is a real mess with all this amount of paper to send...
BUT from September 25 it will be easyer to register any .it domain because, finally, paper will not be required anymore.

 

[Szise]

I'm really sorry but please let me believe is not a coincidence.

 

[DnEbook]

i think you are the victim of .......greed

 

[shane mac]

I think you just got it handed to you big time.The name you chose register.it is a great name and one that whoever dealt with your submission would have seen.Its not coincidence.But sadly what can you do? Unless you can prove somehow they handled the paperwork wrong or you did not do what you should have done.If it is all correct you may have some recourse.

Don't just settle for it,ask them why you were rejected,so as you can make sure the next time you use them what you did wrong.This should get some response.You can then come back here and spread the news.

 

[donnied79]

I think you just got it handed to you big time.The name you chose register.it is a great name and one that whoever dealt with your submission would have seen.Its not coincidence.But sadly what can you do? Unless you can prove somehow they handled the paperwork wrong or you did not do what you should have done.If it is all correct you may have some recourse.

Don't just settle for it,ask them why you were rejected,so as you can make sure the next time you use them what you did wrong.This should get some response.You can then come back here and spread the news.

Not to be negative but (for my experience) asking for explanations etc. is only a waste of time.
BTW in Italy there are many professional dropcatchers with systems that automatically send the registration fax in the exact moment it drops. So i really doubt this 2 domains could be Premium. Thanks to this primitive registration system it can happen that a domain that shows as "available" by the registrar has been taken by someone else from 5-6 days cause when you send the fax the Italian Register "preassign" the domain to you but it takes some day before it really became your.
Here you can check if the domain has been preassigned Stato delle Registrazioni it's not lively updated but it can help with everything assigned from more than 1 day.
WOT if you PM me the names I can check the whois and tell you if the domains were taken by dropcatchers. In that case you are not be scammed, they were simply "preassigned".

 

[DNK.it]

In the past couple of weeks I have "registered" and submitted the relevant documentation for two .it using two different registrars.

First one, after five days of pushing registrar finally advises that my faxed application has been rejected - no reason given at that time or since.

OK no problem -then I check the name again- registered to an Italian address -four days after my initial registration -hmmm.

Undaunted, I see another good one available but decide to use a different registrar. The name is "registered" pending my sending the relevant fax to the same office as before in Italy.

The documents were duly faxed 6 days ago.

Guess what, you are right- the faxed application was again rejected (Paper work provided by them- I simply had to sign and fax).

And guess what, yes- you are right again - the name I had applied for was registered via an Italian address- again four days after my initial "registration".

Anyway, as I said- Simply coincidence. :p

Always send fax two/three times to avoid "unreadable error" or use maintainer where you can send application via electronic form without using fax ( if the domain isn't in deleted status of course )

 

[wot]

Always send fax two/three times to avoid "unreadable error" or use maintainer where you can send application via electronic form without using fax ( if the domain isn't in deleted status of course )

Interesting, the possible "unreadable error" was mentioned in both cases and each time they were faxed twice- a very easy way to stall!

.it, in the future- I simply won't bother-far better prospects out there.

 

[DNK.it]

.it, in the future- I simply won't bother-far better prospects out there.

You are wrong, I've sold 3 .it italian domains this week with a total of 2,000€. I've definitively abandoned the "global" domaininig to focus on "local" domaining, but maybe this is because I know how to negotiate better in my mother tongue rather than in english

 

[wot]

You are wrong, I've sold 3 .it italian domains this week with a total of 2,000€. I've definitively abandoned the "global" domaininig to focus on "local" domaining, but maybe this is because I know how to negotiate better in my mother tongue rather than in english

Congratulations.

But how am I wrong simply because I will not bother with a single cctld in the future?

I had two opportunities with .it both failed for whatever reason, and was certainly not an experience I choose to repeat. One was English, one was Italian.

However, I to am focusing on local domaining, China and India , idn with the former, predominately .cn, and a fairly good portfolio in the ascii.cctld's of the latter.

Happy domaining :wave: