About Visit Italy.com and tourist info
Visit Italy.com
Agenzia di Promozione Turistica
Via Purasca, 28
6988 Ponte Tresa
Switzerland
+41 91 611 8070
mail: info@visititaly.it
Italia.it
The Destination Marketing
Organisation for Italy
ENIT,
Agenzia Nationale del Turismo
(does not have VisitItali.com)
Ministerio del Turismo
Via di Villa Ada,
55 00199 Roma, I
Italia +39 06 164 169910 (Public Contact Center)
+39 06 170 179010
+39 06 170 179170
sg.comunicazione@ministeroturismo.gov.it
more about Italy
Phone Book of the World.com
Wikipedia
Italy has a 7,000 km coastline along the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranian
0 Unesco World Heritage sites
History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Italy
Italy is one of the top 5 most visited countries in the World
VisitItaly.com
Domain registration date: 05-01-1999
Italia.it
Domain registration date: 21-01-2004
Timeline
1919 foundation of ENIT
1999 registration of VisitItaly.com
The domain might have been registered by the domain investor
Yun Ye who registered
“Visit[Destination].com” styled domains during that time.
Ye is known for building one of the largest domain name portfolios of the early Internet era.
Yun Ye born 1972 grew up in China before moving to the United States and later to Vancouver, Canada.
2001 first records of the domain show sponsored links ads.
2005 Marchex aquires a large portfolio of Geodomains from NDL / Name Development Ltd
2007 VisitItaly.com dispays sponsored ad links via MDNH Inc
(a domain‑holding subsidiary of a major domain portfolio company
Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX)
Most probably
Marchex also owned the domains
Visit Dubai.com sold for an disclosed amount
Visit Cyprus.com for 35.000 USD
21-01-2004 was registered
VisitItaly.it
It is the italian version of VisitItaly.com
2011 sale of the domain
VisitItaly.com by Marchex for 61.200 USD
13-06-2011 first version of the current VisitItaly.com site managed from Switzerland
There are multiple other
VisitItaly sites edited by other companies using less prominent web adresses ending with .info etc etc
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Italy has borders with 5 countries
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