.rio Domain Name Information

Registrant must use the .rio domain only for lawful and non-abusive purposes. Providing sub-domain for any other organizations or individuals is not allowed. Registrant must make a website available and provide substantial content on that website. Generic pages, parking pages, under construction or advertisement pages are not allowed

Registration is limited to residents and organizations 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 Juídicas – CNPJ/MF" of the Finance Ministry.
• An individual with fixed address in the city of Rio de Janerio, with active record in "Cadastro Nacional das Pessoas Juídicas – CNPJ/MF" of the Finance Ministry.

Domain names cannot make reference to unlawful activities, be harmful to the Rio City public image, or be visually confusing with an already registered .rio domain name or a reserved name.

Registrant must use the .rio domain only for lawful and non-abusive purposes. Providing sub-domain for any other organizations or individuals is not allowed. Registrant must make a website available and provide substantial content on that website. Generic pages, parking pages, under construction or advertisement pages are not allowed

In accordance with ICANN schedule of reserved names the following are restricted: “EXAMPLE” shall be reserved at the second level and at all other levels within the TLD at which Registry Operator makes registrations.
Two-character labels: All two-character labels shall be initially reserved. The reservation of a two character label string may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the government and country-code manager. The Registry Operator may also propose release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid confusion with the corresponding country codes.
Tagged Domain Names: Labels may only include hyphens in the third and fourth position if they represent valid internationalized domain names in their ASCII encoding (for example "xn--ndk061n").
Second-Level Reservations for Registry Operations: The following names are reserved for use in connection with the operation of the registry for the TLD. Registry Operator may use them, but upon conclusion of Registry Operator's designation as operator of the registry for the TLD they shall be transferred as specified by ICANN: NIC, WWW, IRIS and WHOIS.
Country and Territory Names: The country and territory names contained in the following internationally recognized lists shall be initially reserved at the second level and at all other levels within the TLD at which the Registry Operator provides for registrations.

Top Level Reserved Names: AFRINIC, IANA-SERVERS, NRO, ALAC, ICANN, RFC-EDITOR, APNIC, IESG, RIPE, ARIN, IETF, ROOT-SERVERS, ASO, INTERNIC, RSSAC, CCNSO, INVALID, SSAC, EXAMPLE, IRTF, TEST, GAC, ISTF, TLD, GNSO, LACNIC, WHOIS, GTLD-SERVERS, LOCAL, WWW, IAB, LOCALHOST, IANA, NIC, All International Olympic Committee names, All International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement names.