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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo: São Paulo's research-funding foundation whose data-processing team built Brazil's academic network (ANSP), received Jon Postel's delegation of the .br domain in 1989, made the country's first TCP/IP connection in 1991 (to ESnet via Fermilab), and ran .br registration until NIC.br took over.

A research funder that accidentally became a country's internet registry - for sixteen years.

Also known as: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Sources

Jon Postel's 1989 delegation of ccTLD .br to the FAPESP academic-networks team (NIC.br history)
First Brazilian TCP/IP connection, 1991, FAPESP to ESnet via Fermilab (Demi Getschko biography)

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