Secure Your .rio Domain Today!

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Registration Restrictions

• Names under .rio are only for usage by the city council of Rio.

• A .rio domain owner needs to be either:

• Legal entity incorporated in Brazil, with headquarters, branch, franchisee or licensee located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with active record in “Cadastro Nacional das Pessoas Jurídicas – CNPJ/MF” of the Finance Ministry.

• Individual with fixed address in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with active record in “Cadastro das Pessoas Físicas – CPF/MF” of the Finance Ministry.

• Legal entity incorporated in Brazil, with headquarters, branch, franchisee or licensee located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with active record in “Cadastro Nacional das Pessoas Jurídicas – CNPJ/MF” of the Finance Ministry.

• Individual with fixed address in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with active record in “Cadastro das Pessoas Físicas – CPF/MF” of the Finance Ministry.

• A domain owner that loses eligibility to a .rio domain is subject to termination of DNS publication for the domain, and to domain removal, no matter of the domain expiration date.

• Two pre-configured nameservers are required

• No trustee service is allowed; abuse can lead to the deletion of the domain name by the registry.

• These restrictions and additional information can be found in the registration policies

Domain Transfer Details

Transfer Procedure

• After the transfer has been requested, our backend system sends a confirmation email to the Owner/Admin-C according to the WHOIS of the respective domain. In order to initiate the transfer successfully, it is important, that this email is confirmed.
• After confirmation, the transfer is initiated through the official registry and the losing registrar will receive the transfer request.
• The losing registrar will also send an email to the Owner/Admin-C. allowing him/her to deny the transfer. If you do not respond to the email of the losing registrar, then the transfer will get processed successfully after 5 days.
• If the Email-Address in the WHOIS is invalid, then the transfer cannot be processed. If this is the case, then kindly contact your current registrar and ask him to update the WHOIS information accordingly.

Transfer Notes

• A .rio domain transfer must be initiated with a so-called authorisation code, which can be obtained from the current registrar through the owner or Admin-C of the domain.
• Ensure that your respective domain does not have a lock-status (REGISTRAR-LOCK or HOLD). This can be seen in the WHOIS.
• If the domain is locked, then the owner can demand that the domain will be unlocked.
• Please note that we are only allowed to initiate a gTLD transfer after confirmation of the “ICANN Form of Authorization” by the current registrant. The policies can be viewed under http://www.icann.org/transfers/.
• After a successful transfer of the domain, it will be transfer locked from the registry for a period of 60 days.
• After a successful transfer, the domain lifecycle starts from the beginning (date of Transfer + 1 year).

Authorization Codes

• The format for auth info requires a minimum length of 8 characters and a maximum length of 32 characters.
• Additionally, auth info must contain at least one of each of the following three character types:
• Alphabetic characters: a-z; A-Z
• Numeric characters: 0-9
• Special characters: !;<=$%?&@[()]*^+-,’-{.|/}:~

WHOIS and Domain Management

• WHOIS Server: Visit WHOIS Server
• Real-Time WHOIS Update: Keep your domain information up-to-date.
• Domain Autorenewal: Enabled to ensure your domain does not expire unintentionally.
• Privacy Protection: Available to keep your personal information secure.

Additional Information

• Deletion Timeframe: 35 days after expiration date

• Redemption Period: 30 days

For more information and to register your .rio domain, visit our website at http://nic.rio/.