FAQ’s

Portuguese language registries are understood to be the entities, in each country or territory where Portuguese is the official language, which are empowered by law, dispatch, bylaws or another contractual instrument, as legally competent to manage the ccTLD of the respective country;

ccTLD is understood to be the acronym for country code Top Level Domain, corresponding to the top level domain of each country or territory in accordance with the ISO 3166-1 code, comprising two letters of the alphabet, and whose technical and administrative delegation by IANA, or another entity that may come to succeed it in terms of functions, is a condition for the operation carried out by the Registries;

IANA is understood to be the acronym for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the entity responsible for the operational aspects of coordinating identifiers that are exclusive to the Internet. Its activities may be grouped into three main categories: DNS Service – Top DNS Management, also known as”root” or simply “.”;  numbering, as the service responsible for the overall coordination of the IP address system, and Autonomous Systems (AS) numbers for Internet traffic routing, providing these resources to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and, finally, documentation of codes and numberings used in various Internet protocols