.br
| Top-level domain .br | |
|---|---|
| introduction | April 18, 1989 |
| category | country-specific |
| Registry | Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil |
| Award | limited |
| number | 3.9 million (as of September 2017) |
.br is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Brazil . It has existed since April 18, 1989 and is administered by the so-called Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br) ( Committee for Internet in Brazil ).
properties
The top-level domain is one of the so-called restricted TLDs : private individuals and companies must have a place of residence or a branch in Brazil in order to register a .br domain. Until August 2008, the ending was even reserved exclusively for companies. If the requirement for a local presence is not met, the only option is to switch to a trustee, which is tolerated by the registry. In addition to alphanumeric characters, it has been possible since 2005 to register internationalized domain names with characters from the Portuguese language . At this point in time there were around 750,000 .br domains.
Subdomains
In addition to .br, there are over 60 second-level domains , some of which serve a special purpose: For example, .com.br is intended for companies , while non-profit organizations can use .org.br . There is .ind.br for industry, .psc.br for psychologists or .wiki.br for wikis . Compared to other top-level domains, it is unique that from September 2008 banks can also use their own domain with .b.br . This should especially increase security in online banking .
meaning
Since 2005 .br has been one of the ten most popular country-specific top-level domains for Argentina after .ar . This status continued in the later years, even in 2009 during a general slump in domain numbers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Delegation Record for .BR. IANA, accessed June 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .br, .is and .nyc. In: domain-right. August 4, 2008, accessed on June 17, 2013 : “Good news comes from Brazil: Although the administrator Registro.br has not yet managed to achieve extensive liberalization, one major restriction has been removed. In future, .com.br domains will not only be allowed to be registered by companies based in Brazil, but by every citizen based there. "
- ↑ .br domain. United domains , accessed on June 17, 2013 ("Features" tab).
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .es, .br and .iq. In: domain-right. July 10, 2005, accessed on June 17, 2013 : “Friends of internationalized domain names can now also try their luck in Brazil. As the central administrative office Registro.br announced, Internet addresses with special characters from the national language Portuguese can already be registered since the beginning of May this year. The Brazilian IDNs correspond to the official Punycode standard and can be used with all IDN-compatible browsers. "
- ↑ Categorias de Dominios .br (DPNs). Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .br, .africa and .uk. In: domain-right. November 11, 2008, accessed on June 17, 2013 : “In Brazil, a new third level domain makes online banking more secure: since September 24, 2008, credit institutions have been able to register their domains under .b.br. The ending is only available to financial institutions that guarantee highlighted protection in online banking. "
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: 76.9 million domains worldwide. In: domain-right. June 22, 2005, accessed on December 18, 2013 : “From a European perspective, it is surprising that Argentina (.ar), Brazil (.br) and Japan (.jp) have established themselves among the top ten ccTLDs. Of course, the numbers are relative: neither .ar nor .br each have over a million domains. "
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Domain growth slowed down. In: domain-right. September 28, 2009, accessed on December 18, 2013 : “Above all the abbreviations of .ar (Argentina), .ru (Russia) and .br (Brazil) show sustainable growth and prove that the South American domain -Market is rapidly gaining in importance. "