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.com.br

This article describes the procedures and requirements of .com.br domain names.
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Registration
  • The Billing-Contact as well as the Owner-Contact need a local presence in Brazil. Therefore you can use our trustee service or provide us with your Brazilian register number (for the owner contact) and a Brazilian contact handle (for the billing contact).
  • Trustee service applied automatically, if domain owner contact isn't located in Brazil.
  • The registrant must be over 18 years old.

Successful domain registration via RCP or API requires:

  • If domain is being registered without trustee service:
    • Valid CPF number (Social security number) for private owner contact (CPF must be given in the following format: NNN.NNN.NNN-NN)
    • Valid CNPJ number (VAT number) for company owner contact (CNPJ must be given in the following format: NN.NNN.NNN/NNNN-NN)
  • Preconfigured DNS zone with at least 1 valid A-record. Zone can be verified via registry's DNS checker

NB: for registered domain names, their variations with additional ASCII characters are not possible. i.e. if domainname.com.br is registered, domain-name.com.br can't be registered. Such variations can be registered by the original domain owner only.


In case of a Brazilian contact the two letter state value is mandatory:

  • Acre - AC
  • Alagoas - AL
  • Amapá - AP
  • Amazonas - AM
  • Bahia - BA
  • Ceará - CE
  • Distrito Federal - DF
  • Espíríto Santo - ES
  • Goiás - GO
  • Maranhão - MA
  • Mato Grosso - MT
  • Mato Grosso do Sul - MS
  • Minas Gerais - MG
  • Pará - PA
  • Paraíba - PB
  • Paraná - PR
  • Pernambuco - PE
  • Piauí - PI
  • Rio de Janeiro - RJ
  • Rio Grande do Norte - RN
  • Rio Grande do Sul - RS
  • Rondônia - RO
  • Roraima - RR
  • Santa Catarina - SC
  • São Paulo - SP
  • Sergipe - SE
  • Tocantins - TO
Transfer


Process:

  • Domain owner completes a transfer application form
    • Completed form must be signed by domain owner and notarized
  • Domain owner sends the form to NIC.BR postal address stated in the document
  • Once form is received by the registry, NIC.BR contacts domain owner to complete the process

 

NB: Our local presence address can be used for a form completion:

  • CNPJ: 10.424.053/0001-93
  • NIC-ID: LAJEN Towebbrasil LTDA Rodovia do Sol 980, Loja 3, Ed. Guilherme Meloti
  • CEP: 29102-020, Praia de Itaparica - Vila Velha, ES, Brasil
  • Phone: +55 (27) 35342591


Additional notes on a .com.br transfer

  • Transfer application form available in Portuguese only. Some of the fields translated below:
    • Nome do 1º representante = current owner (check whois https://registro.br/cgi-bin/whois/)
    • RG - Domain contact person

 

Authorization code required no
Method of confirmation forms
Registration period after transfer unchanged
Average transfer time Unknown
Advanced and simple transfers available Contact our Sales department to check if easy transfer of 100 or more .com.br domains is available.
Update

Owner change (trade)

There is no automated way to change the registrant of a .com.br domain.

Other update

  • Requested via RCP or API
  • Process can take several hours to take effect
Deletion / Restore

Delete

  • A .com.br domain can only be deleted using NIC.BR online form, which is only available in Portuguese.

Restore / reactivate

  • Restore can be requested within 20 days after domain expiration
Detailed extension information
Registry
Domain lifecycle
Technical information
  • DNSSEC support: yes
  • Minimum length: 3 characters
  • Maximum length: 26 characters
  • Allowed characters: a-z 0-9 -
  • IDN characters: yes
  • Registration period: 1 – 10 years
  • Renewal date offset: 2 days
    The number of days before the registry's expiration date, that Openprovider requires the domain to be renewed or expired. More info.
    Note that the dates as shown in your Openprovider account are always leading, even if they do not match the renewal date offset mentioned here.
  • Soft quarantine period: n/a days
    During this period, following after an expiration, the domain can be restored for free. This period does not apply if the domain is deleted explicitly. More info.
  • Quarantine period: 18 days
    During this period, an expired or deleted domain name can be reactivated at an additional fee.
Restrictions
  • Local presence required? yes
  • Does Openprovider provide local presence services? yes
  • Local activity required? yes
  • Correct nameserver configuration required? yes
  • Nameservers must be configured and return an authoritative answer before the domain is requested.
  • Local address of the domain owner is required.
  • Trustee services are possible and are subject to additional costs per period on top of renewal costs.
  • If a domain is already registered like openprovider.com.br only the domain owner is allowed through the same registry to register a similar domain like: open-provider.com.br
Policies
Registration agreement The registry requires that a registration agreement is in place between the provider and the domain holder. The text of this registration agreement and any required supplements is the following:

Due to the regular changes in registry rules and configuration or missing information from registry side, and despite our effort to keep our knowledge base up-to-date, information in the knowledge base may be outdated or incorrect. If you encounter some issue, please report it through the "HotJar" feedback collector on the bottom right, or (if it is blocked by your browser) by clicking the "Submit a request" link below. No rights can be derived from the information in this knowledge base. If there is discrepancy between the knowledge base and the process in Openprovider, the process in Openprovider is leading.

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