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[Strategic Investment]

I tried to register a .com.br I thought was available through eurodns, they came back saying the registry had denied the request due to the name being unavailable for registration, however the domain is not owned according to any whois. It would make sense that this domain would be registered - it gets around 1 million exact searches a month in Brazil. So my question is does the registry reserve names?

[Thomas]

most likely this is a domain that has been registered before but then got deleted.

check the whois at registro.br. if it says something like this:
"Domínio não disponível para registro, por ter participado de
mais de 6 (seis) processos de liberação consecutivos."

registro.br opens registration for these domains four times a year, if i'm not mistaken.

[Gustavo Volcan]

Originally Posted by Strategic Investment

I tried to register a .com.br I thought was available through eurodns, they came back saying the registry had denied the request due to the name being unavailable for registration, however the domain is not owned according to any whois. It would make sense that this domain would be registered - it gets around 1 million exact searches a month in Brazil. So my question is does the registry reserve names?

A few domains can't be registered for some legal, political or other reason.

Most probably this domain expired and you can try to register again in one of the four anual apportunieties we have to register these expired domains like Thomas said.

[Strategic Investment]

Do you know when the next one of these periods for registration is? How do you go about registering in them if you are not a Brazilian resident/citizen?

[Gustavo Volcan]

Originally Posted by Strategic Investment

Do you know when the next one of these periods for registration is? How do you go about registering in them if you are not a Brazilian resident/citizen?

You can check registro.br site to see when the next release period will be, they place a note there one month previous to the 15 day release period.

You can check about now to register in my other posts inside .br forum. I give many tips there.

Regards!