The Portuguese language has approximately 280 million speakers with Portuguese being the 5th most spoken language in the world and the most spoken language in the southern hemisphere. Recent data have shown that on the Internet, Portuguese is the 5th most used language; on social networks – Facebook and Twitter – it ranks 3rd, with approximately 32 million Portuguese outside their countries of origin.

A meeting of common wills and needs led those responsible for managing these registries, namely: Associação DNS.PT, (Portugal); AGER – General Regulatory Authority, (São Tomé and Príncipe); National Communications Agency (ANAC), (Cape Verde); National Regulatory Authority for Information and Communication Technology (RNA-TIC), (Guinea-Bissau) and the Information and Coordination Center of the .BR Domain – NIC.br, (Brazil) to reach an agreement to formally establish LusNIC, as a private law association with the purpose of multilateral institutional cooperation between Portuguese-language registries within their areas of intervention.

The existence of organizations such as the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs (LACTLD), the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Association (APTLD) and the African Top Level Domain Association (AfTLD) with an identical regional nature, where cooperation and development of a common objective is already pursued in the assumption of a common geographic location.

This initiative came about on 23 September 2015 at a formal session organized within the scope of E-Show 2015. 

All the legal representatives from the aforementioned entities were present for the signing of the public title of the LusNIC constitution. This represents the first step in what is expected to ensure that productive work is accomplished in the areas of intervention described.