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Rio Becomes First Latin American City to Offer Its Own TLD

By CircleID Reporter
  • September 21, 2015, 7:57 pm PDT
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Rio de Janeiro has become the first Latin American city with its own dedicated top-level domain (.rio), allowing individuals and entities who want to identify themselves with the Brazilian city to register their desired domain names with the new extension. ICANN approved the .rio domain this year and it took effect on Thursday, the Rio city government said in a statement.

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