Download websites that use Aruba.it

About Aruba.it

A company that both registers domains and hosts them produces a footprint with two different kinds of row in it, and telling them apart is most of the work. One kind is a real business with a live site, a mailbox, and somebody paying attention. The other is a name somebody bought, pointed at a default page, and forgot. Rows of both kinds sit under the same provider, and a total that mixes them will overstate any market you try to size.

Aruba.it is exactly that kind of company. Operated by Aruba S.p.A. and active since 1994, it sells Hosting services alongside domain registration, mail, certified electronic mail, digital signatures, and cloud infrastructure into the Italian market. Certified mail and digital signature services are not marketing extras there. Contracts, invoices, and correspondence with public administration are legally transacted through them, which anchors the company inside Italian business process rather than merely inside Italian web hosting.

As of October 2026 the footprint covers 1,541,481 sites, with 1,369,566 attributed to Italy and the .it ending running through it. National concentration at that level makes the list function as a sample of the Italian commercial web rather than as the customer list of one vendor among many.

For a site in this footprint the implications are fairly specific. The business behind it operates in Italian, invoices under Italian rules, and has chosen a domestic supplier for reasons that usually include local-language support and comfort with local compliance. The technical stack tends to be conventional and shared, a content management system on a hosting plan, with the interesting variation showing up in whether the site also carries a shop, a booking system, or a marketing tag. For anyone selling into Italian small and medium business, that combination is a better targeting base than a company register, because it identifies businesses actually operating a web presence rather than businesses that merely exist on paper.

The parking problem deserves a second mention, since it is the main way a footprint like this misleads. A combined registrar and host accumulates defensive registrations, expired projects, and speculative names, all of which resolve and all of which are technically hosted. Filtering on evidence of real content, a title, a content management system, a mail configuration, is not optional if the goal is to count businesses. In the other direction, attribution depends on name servers and address ranges, so a customer running a proxy in front of the site can vanish from the count entirely. Errors run both ways here and neither of them is small.

Population scale is the whole argument for downloading the file. A lookup answers whether one domain sits with this provider, a fact of almost no commercial value on its own. An export answers the questions people actually bring, how much of a national web market a domestic provider holds, which segments run a shop or a booking flow, how domestic hosting compares with international platforms inside the same country, and which way the traffic between them is flowing when two exports are set side by side.