.br TLD audit hub
Brazil ccTLD — administered by NIC.br with category-restricted second-level zones.
The .br ccTLD is administered by NIC.br and uses a structured second-level taxonomy: com.br for commercial, org.br for non-commercial, gov.br for government, edu.br for education, plus a long list of sector-specific zones (adv.br for lawyers, med.br for doctors, eco.br for environmental, and many more). General registration is restricted to Brazilian-presence entities and individuals; foreign registrants need a local representative. NIC.br has invested heavily in DNSSEC adoption and operates an active anti-abuse program. SEO treats .br as a strong Brazil-bound geotargeting signal — Google's market presence in Brazil is dominant and .br adoption correlates strongly with Portuguese-language ranking. Email deliverability has Brazil-specific quirks: Globo, UOL, Terra and the major Brazilian ISPs maintain their own spam-filtering practices and reputation needs to be built locally. Brazilian privacy law (LGPD) is closely aligned with GDPR and applies to any site collecting data from Brazilian users.