Weekly Report - 28 August 2014 (WR-14-34)

BRAZIL | Rio gets internet domain. On 25 August Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, revealed that the city is set to become the first in South America to boast its own internet domain- ‘.rio’. According to Paes his municipal government is in the final stages of registering the new domain with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation responsible for the maintenance of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, and that this process would be finalised by January 2015, ahead of the 450th anniversary of Rio’s foundation.