25 years of .br domain

Most of the Brazilian websites we access today we put ".br" by the end of the domain, and those "2 letters" completed 25 years last week. On April 18, 1989, American Jon Postel, director of the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), the agency that regulates the distribution of IP numbers and management of root servers, delegated the .br domain to the group that operated the academic networks in Brazil. Today, 25 years later, the country has more than 3.4 million of .br domains registered.

At the beginning, the internet was restricted to universities and research institutions. In 1991, the famous subdomains were created com.br, net.br, org.br, gov.br andmil.br, but the number of users was still quite small. The commercial phase of the Internet in Brazil was in 1996.

The CGI.br, who coordinates the services of Internet in Brazil in early 1996 there were only 851 registered .br domains, that number jumped to 7,507 at the end of the same year. Today there are over 3.5 million .br domains registered, which places Brazil in eighth position among the countries with the largest number of records.

To register a domain with CGI.br costs R$ 30,00 per year, all money raised is reinvested in maintenance such as the operation points of traffic exchange, researches with valued statistics about the use of the internet and free courses about IPv6. Since 2008, any person with CPF (Brazilian ID) is eligible to register a domain, before that, only companies could do that.

Interested in registering a .br domain, visit: www.registro.br