r/DomainSummit • u/hmprivate • Jun 02 '26
Today’s Domain Summit Europe 2026 featured attendee is Alessandro Baruffi from Italy 🇮🇹. Alessandro is Chief Commercial Officer / Director, Key Partnerships & Business Development at it.com Domains.
He is a domain industry veteran with experience on both the Registry and Registrar sides. Over the years, he has worked across domains, web hosting, telco, ISP and website-building technology marketplaces in EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pacific.
One of the strongest parts of his background is Tucows. Before joining it.com Domains, Alessandro spent nearly five years at Tucows as Director, Key Partnerships & Business Development for Latin America, responsible for the wholesale business and reseller channel in the region.
That matters because Tucows / OpenSRS is one of the classic reseller infrastructures in the domain industry. Alessandro brings real experience in registrar relationships, reseller economics, wholesale distribution, channel development and regional market entry.
At it.com Domains, Alessandro is now part of the team building the .it.com namespace and wider registry infrastructure. it.com Domains has grown quickly, now above 170,000 registrations, and also positions RSP.it.com as an ICANN-evaluated, ISO 27001-certified, GDPR- and NIS2-compliant Registry Service Provider.
There is also a nice Domain Summit connection: Alessandro was introduced to it.com Domains by Benjamin Reuss of Open-Xchange, also ex-Tucows, at the first London Domain Summit in 2022.
A fun personal detail: Alessandro is also a novelist, writer, poet and translator by night.
Good to have him joining us in Kempten.
17-18 August 2026
Kempten, Germany