it's not that straightforward though.

to register an .it you must prove you are a person or a business working or residing in one of the EU member states and need to provide the ID of a person who's gonna be listed as admin-c of the domain.

No you don't. I had a .it domain too, yes there is a field in regstritation where you should enter a "identity card id", but I didn't have one so I entered something random. Worked of course.

> No you don't.

Yes, you do!

of course it worked.

you just committed a crime.

you can fake your id everywhere in the World, it is a crime everywhere in the world and if something happens doesn't mean you won't get caught.

you can drive a stolen car, it will work.

> yes there is a field in regstritation where you should enter a "identity card id"

so it is required! you simply ignored it, lied and broke the law.

your criminal behaviour doesn't imply laws do not exist.

if you tried to buy an insurance policy with that fake ID, you would be in troubles now.

Not a crime. It's not my job to ensure their "validation" is working. The registrar took the money all the same.

>if you tried to buy an insurance policy with that fake ID, you would be in troubles now.

But this is more a "are you 13 or older"-style of "crime".

Right, and I'm sure that government across the ocean will get right on prosecuting that violation...

This was a EU-EU transaction anyway. Not once was there a problem regarding this.

history repeating...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_cras...

You can do that, but you always run the risk of someone snitching to nic.it, in which case you would lose the domain. :/

I don't think this is an issue if you're a spammer. Those domains are probably short lived anyway.