.br domains

Brazil

.BR domains pertain to Brazil, this extension was created in year 1989. It's the most popular extension in Brazil and the one that has more websites in portuguese, even more than under .pt domains. The registration rate increased in the last years dramatically, due to the significant growth of the Internet penetration among the Brazilian population.

.BR domains are managed by Registro.br since year 2005.

Rates and features

.com.br

19,95 €

It's required for the domain holder and billing contact of .BR domains to reside or have presence in Brazil.

Registration period doesn't change

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	19,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	19,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	0,00 €		-

Features
Domain length:	3 - 26 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's required for the domain holder and billing contact of .BR domains to reside or have presence in Brazil.
Transfer system:	When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change.

Regulations

.br domain life cycle

				30 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date		Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Pending delete		Domain available

Pending Delete

Permitted characters

.br domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.

Residency requirements

It's required for the domain holder and billing contact of .BR domains to reside or have presence in Brazil.

Technical requirements

.COM.BR domains require the DNS to be active on different subnets and to be authoritative for the domain at the time of registration. You can check if they pass these minimum requirements using our Zone Check tool.

Registrations

.BR domain registrations can take multiple days to be completed.

Transfers

To be able to complete .COM.BR domain transfers you'll need your current registrar to give you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key, with it you'll be able to verify your domain's ownership.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars allow to accept transfers manually, contact your current registrar and find out if they offer this service, in this case the transfer will complete the same day.

More information about .COM.BR domain transfers

When the transfer ends, the expiration date doesn't change.

Renewals

The renewal of .COM.BR domains is different than with other extensions.

It's necessary to request the domain renewal at least 1 days before the domain expiration.

In case the renewal request is done after this date, the correct renewal is not guaranteed.

Cancellations

It's possible to ask for the cancellation of your .COM.BR domain, you'll have to do it opening a ticket (support area). Please note the domain cancellation involves no refund of the domain registration fee.

DNS modifications

DNS modification isn't immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, once the Registry processes the requested change, this can take up to 6-7 days, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.

Domain owner change

The owner change has to be made directly through Registro.br, a notarized letter of intent needs to also be included.
More information: http://registro.br/cgi-bin/nicbr/transferencia_de_contato