.br trustee and local-representative services compared

The pick is Netim, and the reason is a published number. Its trustee price table lists .com.br and .net.br at €25 a year excluding VAT, on the same page and in the same table as .fr, .it and .hu. Nobody else in this field puts a figure in public at all, and the two that do publish an all-in price ask more than ten times as much. Netim also describes the mechanism it runs, listing itself or a partner as the registrant on your behalf, and states the exit: change the holder to a party that qualifies, then transfer. A published fee, a described model and a stated way out is the whole test this site applies, and here one provider passes it for €25.

Safenames is the pick if you want the contract rather than the price. It is the only service here that publishes its whole local contact agreement: clause 5 sets $800 to set up and $250 a year, clause 4.5 commits it to relinquishing all rights of ownership when you ask to move the domain, and clause 4.7 commits it to handing the domain to a registration agency you name if it can no longer hold it. That last clause is a genuine wind-down provision and almost nobody writes one. Two caveats: it publishes no extension list, so .br cover has to be confirmed before you pay, and clause 11.4 says any company it forms to complete the service remains its sole property, which on Brazil is a live issue rather than a theoretical one.

The eleven services compared

Ratings weigh a published contract, a stated exit and a described mechanism ahead of how low the fee is. Five of the eleven do not say which model they run, which is why not stated is marked in red rather than left blank. None of these services are affiliated with Registro.br or NIC.br, and the registry does not licence, approve or supervise trustee arrangements. Each links to its full profile in the provider directory, and the methodology explains where the figures come from.

The route the registry publishes

Brazil is unusual in that the registry has already written down how a foreign company gets a domain without a Brazilian company. The procedure sits in CGI.br Resolution 2008/008/P, and it works by registering the foreign entity itself with Registro.br, which then issues it an identifier used on the domain application. You end up as the holder. The cost of that is documentary.

• A power of attorney appointing an attorney-in-fact in Brazil, signed and notarised in your own country.
• A declaration of commercial activity giving the trade name and the details of the legal representative.
• A commitment declaration that the company will establish definitive activities in Brazil within twelve months.
• Consular legalisation of all three at the Brazilian consulate in your country of origin.
• Sworn translation of all three into Portuguese.
• The attorney's CNPJ or CPF, and a registration for the attorney in the registry system if they do not already have one.

The third item is the one that decides the page. The registry is not asking you to prove you trade in Brazil today. It is asking you to commit to doing so within a year. A buyer who wants a .com.br purely to hold a brand, redirect a site or defend a name is being asked to sign something that does not describe them, and that is the pressure the trustee market sells relief from.

What you are buying

Registro.br publishes the holder of every domain, and the holder is identified by a CNPJ or CPF. There is no separate eligibility contact to hide behind and no administrative-contact route of the kind Singapore offers. Whoever holds the tax number on the record is the owner of the registration as far as the registry is concerned.

The five-year arithmetic is where this usually lands. A one-off spend on notarisation, legalisation, sworn translation and a Brazilian attorney is set against an annual fee that never stops and a domain that is not in your name. If the domain matters enough to defend, the route the registry publishes is the one that survives a dispute.

The services in detail

Netim ★★★★★★★★★★

An established French registrar that publishes one trustee price table covering every extension it serves, with .com.br and .net.br listed at €25 a year excluding VAT. It is the rare operator that treats the trustee as a priced line item rather than a bundled mystery, it sits on Afnic's board in its home market, and it publishes the exit: change the holder to a party that qualifies, then transfer out.

Weakness: Netim does not name the Brazilian partner that becomes the registrant when it is not Netim itself, so the counterparty holding your CNPJ is unidentified, and the published exit still depends on you finding somebody eligible to receive the domain. Full profile.

Safenames ★★★★★★★★★★

The only published contract here. Clause 5 sets $800 to set up and $250 a year with no refunds under 5.5, clause 2.10 leaves administrative control in your own portal, clause 3.10 bars it from modifying, deleting, assigning or licensing the domain without your instruction, and clause 4.7 is a genuine wind-down clause. Clause 11.2 lets it form a company to complete the service, which in Brazil is close to what the registry contemplates.

Weakness: clause 11.4 says a company formed under 11.2 remains its sole property, clause 7.9 bars you from using any Safenames agent after termination, and there is no published extension list, so .br cover is an enquiry rather than a fact. Full profile.

Com Laude ★★★★★★★★★★

A corporate domain manager that elsewhere publishes the argument against its own product, telling clients the registry may act against these arrangements and that a group entity or a law firm is better where one is available. On Brazil that advice points straight at the attorney-in-fact route, which is what the resolution is built around.

Weakness: nothing commercial is public. No .com.br price, no service fee, no exit and no minimum spend, so a small buyer cannot compare it against anything here. Full profile.

CentralNic Reseller, Openprovider and InterNetX ★★★★★★★★★★

Three wholesale platforms with real substance and thin public documentation on this particular registry. Openprovider is the most usable of them, because it publishes a local presence list and a consistent exit pattern across its extensions: disable the service, then request the transfer code. CentralNic Reseller documents registry mechanics better than almost anyone elsewhere on this site. InterNetX is candid in general terms that where a trustee must be the owner, change of owner fees may follow.

Weakness: all three are reached through a reseller or a wholesale account, none publishes a retail .com.br figure, and none states which Brazilian party ends up holding the tax number on the record. Openprovider, CentralNic Reseller and InterNetX.

101domain ★★★★★★★★★★

Marks trustee and proxy service as available for .br, which is more than most competitors state either way, and its .br page carries a notice that direct registrations at the second level are suspended, which is accurate about the namespace structure even if it reads as a registry outage.

Weakness: no price appears on the page at all, the trustee fee surfaces only inside a checkout, and the service is described as needing no contract, which on a registry that publishes the holder's tax number is not the reassurance it sounds like. Full profile.

Domgate ★★★★★★★★★★

A local presence specialist rather than a registrar with a sideline, and one of the few that names its legal entities: Boos Sarl in Grasse, company number 484080528, and Coquelicot Ltd in Dublin, number 658298. It describes its network as either a locally registered branch office or a trusted local agent, which is at least a real description of two different things.

Weakness: which of the two applies in Brazil is not stated, no price, mechanism or exit is published, Brazil is not among the countries it names as examples, and it sells to resellers rather than to you. Full profile.

EuropeID and Web Solutions ★★★★★★★★★★

The same Danish operation running near-identical copy on two sites at two price points: .com.br at €309 on one and $350 on the other, in both cases with the trustee described as included. They are the only providers in this comparison that publish an all-in annual figure at all, and on a page where most of the field will not quote anything that has some value.

Weakness: that figure is many times what a .com.br costs from a Brazilian registrar, the standing terms let the company, its branch or an appointed agent become the legal holder and reserve the right to move ownership at its discretion, prepaid annual fees are not refunded, and neither site names the Brazilian entity that would hold the CNPJ. EuropeID and Web Solutions.

Marcaria ★★★★★★★★★★

A real, ICANN-accredited company with broad ccTLD coverage that will issue a certificate of ownership on request, which is the standard substitute offered when the registry record says somebody else owns the domain.

Weakness: neither the trustee fee nor the identity of the holding entity is published, the fee appears only in an order form, and customers have reported a $20 owner-update charge applied when moving a trustee-held domain out, which lands on precisely the step Brazil forces you to take. Full profile.

How to choose

1. Decide whether you can sign the commitment declaration. If you genuinely intend to trade in Brazil inside a year, the registry route puts the domain in your own name and ends the question.
2. Price the paperwork once, not the service forever. Notarisation, consular legalisation, sworn translation and a Brazilian attorney are a one-off. A trustee fee is not.
3. Ask which CNPJ goes on the record, and whose it is. Registro.br publishes the holder, so this is checkable after the fact and should be answerable before.
4. Ask what the change of holder costs. Leaving a trustee-held .br always means a change of holder, so any fee attached to that step is the real exit price.
5. Get the wind-down answer in writing. If the Brazilian entity stops trading, who moves the domain? Only one provider here publishes a clause on it.
6. Confirm the namespace. A quote that says .br without saying .com.br has not been thought about.

Alternatives to a trustee

The foreign-entity procedure. Registro.br registers your own company and issues it an identifier, and you hold the domain. It costs documents and a Brazilian attorney rather than an annual fee, and it is the only route that leaves the name in your control. See the .br eligibility rules for how the namespaces differ.

A Brazilian subsidiary. A CNPJ of your own removes the question permanently and covers every namespace at once. Proportionate if you are trading in Brazil, heavy overhead if you are defending a brand.

Buying an existing .com.br. Does not solve it by itself. The incoming holder still needs a CNPJ or CPF, so the transfer runs into the same requirement.

Frequently asked questions

Notes

Prices checked September 2026 as published by each provider. Netim publishes .com.br and .net.br at €25 a year excluding VAT in its trustee price table, alongside the domain fee. EuropeID lists .com.br at €309 and Web Solutions at $350, in both cases with the trustee included and for what appears to be one operation behind two sites; both also carry a .br page stating that direct registration is not currently available. 101domain marks trustee and proxy service as available for .br and publishes no figure on that page. Safenames publishes $800 and $250 in clause 5 of its local contact terms, which are generic to all ccTLDs rather than specific to .br, so confirm cover before ordering. Com Laude, CentralNic Reseller, Openprovider, InterNetX, Domgate and Marcaria publish no retail .com.br figure.

The foreign-entity procedure, the three declarations, the consular legalisation and the sworn translation requirement are drawn from CGI.br Resolution 2008/008/P and Registro.br's published guidance for foreign entities. This page describes how .br registration works and how these services present themselves. It is not legal advice, and the documentary route in particular is one to run past a Brazilian lawyer rather than a domain reseller.

Last updated September 2026. Prices and terms change, and several of these providers publish .br pages that are out of date with the namespace structure. If you spot something wrong, email info@trusteeindex.com.