.com.br Domain
Brazil's Commercial Domain for the Largest Latin American Market
Register your .com.br domain from just £27.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Registration is limited to entities legally operating in Brazil, registered professionals and natural persons, with a CNPJ or CPF recorded; a foreign company gets only a provisional registration and has to commit to establishing itself in Brazil within twelve months. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .com.br domain?
The .com.br domain is the commercial extension within Brazil's .br namespace, managed by Registro.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee). Brazil has over 180 million internet users, making it the largest online market in Latin America. A .com.br domain is the standard for Brazilian businesses and is trusted by consumers across the country. Registration typically requires a Brazilian CPF or CNPJ number, though international registrants can use a local representative.
Who should register .com.br?
Brazilian businesses, UK companies targeting the Brazilian market, and international brands entering Latin America.
Why choose .com.br?
- Standard domain for Brazil's 180+ million users
- Trusted by Brazilian consumers
- Largest online market in Latin America
- Strong commercial recognition in Brazil
Who runs .com.br, and since when
Registry data from the .com.br delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Country-code (ccTLD)
- Registered under the .br zone
- Registry operator
- Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil
- The organisation that runs the extension
- .br delegated
- 1989
- The date belongs to the .br zone, not to .com.br itself
- Who can register
- Entities legally operating in Brazil; foreign firms need a Brazilian legal representative
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £27.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The paperwork a UK company needs for .com.br
This is not a domain you buy, it is a domain you apply for, and the difference is worth understanding before you budget for it. The procedure CGI.br publishes for .com.br and the rest of the .br namespace allows registration only to entities legally operating in Brazil, to registered professionals and to natural persons, with a CNPJ number for a company or a CPF number for an individual recorded against the domain.
Foreign companies are not shut out, but the route is a formal one. Article 6 grants a provisional registration to a foreign company that appoints a legal representative established in Brazil and files three documents: a power of attorney giving that representative authority to register, cancel and transfer the domain and to act for the company in and out of court; a declaration of the company's commercial activity; and a declaration committing it to establish activities permanently in Brazil within twelve months. All three need consular legalisation and a sworn translation, plus a copy of the representative's CNPJ or CPF.
The twelve-month commitment has teeth. Failing to honour it is a listed ground for cancellation, and no cancellation carries any right to compensation or a refund. A .com.br taken out by a UK company with no intention of opening in Brazil is a registration on borrowed time, not a shortcut.
Two practical details hit on day one. You have to supply at least two working DNS servers answering for the domain within fourteen days of the registration ticket being issued, and the name itself must be two to twenty-six characters, made of letters, digits and hyphens, with Portuguese accented characters permitted. Talk to us before you order one. It is the most document-heavy extension we sell, and the paperwork is where orders stall.
Who is allowed to register .com.br?
Registration is limited to entities legally operating in Brazil, registered professionals and natural persons, with a CNPJ or CPF recorded; a foreign company gets only a provisional registration and has to commit to establishing itself in Brazil within twelve months.
- Who qualifies directly
- Entities that operate legally in Brazil, registered professionals and natural persons may register. A company supplies its business name, CNPJ number, physical and electronic addresses, a responsible person and a telephone number; an individual supplies full name, CPF number, addresses and telephone.
- Foreign companies
- A foreign company can obtain only a provisional registration, and only by appointing a legal representative established in Brazil. The power of attorney has to give that representative authority to register, cancel and transfer the domain and to act for the company judicially and extrajudicially.
- The documents required
- A power of attorney, a declaration of the company's commercial activity and a declaration of commitment, each with signatures recognised in the home country, each consular legalised at the Brazilian consulate and each with a sworn translation, plus a copy of the representative's CNPJ or CPF. This is a solicitor-and-consulate job, not a checkout form.
- The twelve-month commitment
- The declaration of commitment states that the company will establish its activities permanently in Brazil within twelve months of the documents reaching the registry. It is a promise about the future of your business, not a formality, and you should not sign it unless it is true.
- If you do not qualify or do not follow through
- Failing to honour the twelve-month commitment is listed as a ground for cancelling the registration, as is incorrect registrant data left uncorrected after fourteen days' notice. In any case of cancellation the holder has no right to compensation or refund.
Rules taken from CGI.br Resolution 2008/008/P on domain registration procedures. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .com.br the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.com.br works well if
- You already have a Brazilian entity with a CNPJ, in which case the registration is ordinary and the address is what Brazilian customers expect.
- You are opening in Brazil within the year and the twelve-month commitment describes something you were doing anyway.
- You sell to Brazilian consumers, who treat com.br as the mark of a company that is actually present rather than shipping from abroad.
- You want the country signal Google says a ccTLD gives, pointed at the largest market in Latin America, over Portuguese-language content.
Look elsewhere if
- You want to reserve the name in case Brazil happens later. A provisional registration rests on a commitment to establish there within twelve months, and cancellation brings no refund.
- You need it this week. Consular legalisation and sworn translation take time that no registrar can compress, and the order sits waiting for paper.
- You have no Portuguese-language content. A com.br address over an English page tells a Brazilian buyer the market is an experiment.
Testing Brazil rather than entering it? A .com with Portuguese content and clear delivery terms reaches the same buyers with no representative to appoint. See .com pricing.
.com.br vs .com: which should you register?
Most extensions on this site differ by price and audience. This one differs by process, and that is what should drive the decision.
A .com is a purchase: you choose a name, you pay, you have it. A com.br for a UK company is an application: a representative established in Brazil, a legalised and translated power of attorney, two declarations, a consulate visit and a commitment about where your business will be trading a year from now. Neither the registrar nor the registry can shorten any of that.
What you get for the trouble is the address Brazilian buyers trust, on a national extension Google reads as aimed at Brazil. That is worth real money to a company with a Brazilian operation and worth nothing at all to a company without one. If you are in the second group, run a Portuguese-language section on the .com and revisit the question when there is a Brazilian entity to register in.
| .com.br | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Who may register | Legally operating in Brazil, or provisional for foreign firms | Anyone worldwide |
| Identifier required | CNPJ or CPF on the record | None |
| Documents | Legalised and sworn-translated | None |
| Ongoing condition | Establish in Brazil within 12 months | None |
| Name length | Two to twenty-six characters | Up to sixty-three characters |
.com.br domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .com.br domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyOnly provisionally, and only through a legal representative established in Brazil. The published procedure requires a power of attorney giving that representative authority to register, cancel and transfer the domain and to act for you in and out of court, a declaration of your commercial activity, and a declaration committing you to establish activities permanently in Brazil within twelve months. Each needs consular legalisation and a sworn translation. Talk to us before you start, because the paperwork sets the timetable.
Yes. The registration record carries a CNPJ number for a legal person or a CPF number for a natural person, alongside the name, physical and electronic addresses and telephone. Where a foreign company registers through a representative, a copy of that representative's CNPJ or CPF forms part of the application. Incorrect registrant data is a listed ground for cancellation if it is not corrected within fourteen days of the registry asking.
The registration is at risk. The declaration of commitment says your company will establish its activities permanently in Brazil within twelve months of the documents reaching the registry, and failing to honour that commitment is one of the listed grounds for cancelling the domain. Cancellation carries no right to compensation or refund. Treat the commitment as a statement of intent you can stand behind, not as a form to be signed and forgotten.
Because most of the work happens outside the domain system. Signatures have to be recognised in your own country, three documents have to be legalised at the Brazilian consulate, and all three need a sworn translation. On top of that, at least two DNS servers must be configured and answering for the domain within fourteen days of the registration ticket. None of that is a registrar queue, so nobody can escalate it for you.
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