Skip to main content

NIC Costa Rica

Unclaimed
Human View Machine View

Human View is the company as people read it. Machine View is the same record as agents receive it.

No coverage yet Claim this listing

Show all 15 topics

No article in the knowledge graph for NIC Costa Rica yet.

Who is NIC Costa Rica?

NIC Costa Rica is the nonprofit registry that administers the .cr country code top-level domain, providing domain name registration and registry services for the Costa Rican namespace.

  • Registry operation for the .cr country code top-level domain
  • Domain name registration and lifecycle management
  • Domain Name System (DNS) and authoritative name server infrastructure
  • Coordination with accredited registrars through provisioning protocols
  • Policy administration for the .cr domain namespace
Show more

More About NIC Costa Rica

NIC Costa Rica operates within the Domain Name System as the registry for the .cr country code top-level domain. In enterprise environments, a national registry of this type serves as the authoritative source for registrations within its namespace. Organizations use .cr domains to establish a local online presence, register brand identifiers, and host public-facing services under the national domain.

Registry operations of this kind rely on the Domain Name System and its supporting protocols. Registries commonly use the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) to connect accredited registrars with the registry database. Many registries also deploy DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to provide origin authentication and data integrity for signed zones. Authoritative name server infrastructure and registration data services are standard components of this model, and their specific implementation depends on the policies of each registry.

Country code top-level domain registries differ from generic top-level domain operators because each national registry sets its own eligibility rules, pricing structures, and dispute procedures under local law and policy. NIC Costa Rica therefore occupies a different solution category from commercial registrar services, although registrars depend on the registry to process domain transactions.

The business significance of a ccTLD registry lies in its role in the reliability and governance of a national internet namespace. Consistent registry operations support domain availability for government agencies, businesses, and individuals. These operations also affect how domain names are used in electronic commerce, email authentication, and digital identity services.

NIC Costa Rica is positioned in the internet services and infrastructure category. Its active service area is the administration of the national domain namespace, including registry operations, DNS services, and registrar coordination for .cr domains.

Our description of NIC Costa Rica. Updated October 2026.

Market segments

  • Information Technology / Software & Services / IT Services / Internet Services & Infrastructure

Similar organizations

Ordered by the topics they cover in common with NIC Costa Rica.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

The schema.org markup this page publishes for search engines and AI agents, exactly as they read it.

[
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#website",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "name": "Decision Insights",
    "potentialAction": {
      "@type": "SearchAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://decisioninsights.ai/search/?q={search_term_string}&submit=1"
      }
    },
    "publisher": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
    },
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "contactPoint": {
      "@type": "ContactPoint",
      "contactType": "customer support",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    },
    "description": "Decision Insights is a Registry of technology companies, open source projects, and industry terms, built for people and for AI agents that need sourced, structured information.",
    "logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://wiretap-cdn-assets.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/decision-insights/[email protected]"
    },
    "name": "Decision Insights",
    "parentOrganization": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Wiretap Labs",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiretap-labs",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wiretap-labs"
      ],
      "url": "https://wiretaplabs.com"
    },
    "publishingPrinciples": "https://decisioninsights.ai/standards/",
    "sameAs": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/decisioninsights"
    ],
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai",
        "name": "Decision Insights",
        "position": 1
      },
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/",
        "name": "Registry",
        "position": 2
      },
      {
        "@type": "ListItem",
        "item": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/",
        "name": "NIC Costa Rica",
        "position": 3
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/#organization",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "additionalProperty": [
      {
        "@type": "PropertyValue",
        "name": "Related organizations",
        "propertyID": "https://decisioninsights.ai/ns#relatedOrganizations",
        "value": [
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/atalla/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/atalla/",
            "name": "Utimaco"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nict/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nict/",
            "name": "National Institute of Information and Communications Technology"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/shell-plc/shell-australia/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/shell-plc/shell-australia/",
            "name": "Shell Australia"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/optic-fusion/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/optic-fusion/",
            "name": "Optic Fusion"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nomad-futurist/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nomad-futurist/",
            "name": "Nomad Futurist"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/arrow-electronics/arrow-systems-integration/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/arrow-electronics/arrow-systems-integration/",
            "name": "Arrow Systems Integration"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/numerex-corp/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/numerex-corp/",
            "name": "Numerex"
          },
          {
            "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/mkdocs/#organization",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/mkdocs/",
            "name": "MkDocs"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "PropertyValue",
        "name": "Segment",
        "value": "Information Technology / Software & Services / IT Services / Internet Services & Infrastructure"
      }
    ],
    "description": "NIC Costa Rica is the nonprofit registry administering the .cr country code top-level domain for Costa Rica.",
    "keywords": [
      "Authentication",
      "Components",
      "Data",
      "Database",
      "Domain Name System",
      "Enterprise",
      "Government",
      "Internet",
      "IT Governance",
      "Lifecycle Management",
      "Namespace",
      "Protocol",
      "Server",
      "Services"
    ],
    "knowsAbout": [
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/authentication/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/authentication/",
        "name": "Authentication"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/components/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/components/",
        "name": "Components"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/",
        "name": "Cybersecurity"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/database/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/database/",
        "name": "Database"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/",
        "name": "Data Center"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/domain-name-system/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/domain-name-system/",
        "name": "Domain Name System"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/",
        "name": "Enterprise"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/government/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/government/",
        "name": "Government"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/internet/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/internet/",
        "name": "Internet"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/it-governance/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/it-governance/",
        "name": "IT Governance"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/lifecycle-management/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/lifecycle-management/",
        "name": "Lifecycle Management"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/namespace/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/namespace/",
        "name": "Namespace"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/protocol/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/protocol/",
        "name": "Protocol"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/server/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/server/",
        "name": "Server"
      },
      {
        "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/services/#definedterm",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/term/services/",
        "name": "Services"
      }
    ],
    "logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://img.logo.dev/nic.cr?token=pk_CZeihPN_TrqRBIQ1KAv4yQ"
    },
    "mainEntityOfPage": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/",
    "name": "NIC Costa Rica",
    "sameAs": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/niccr",
      "https://x.com/cr_nic",
      "https://www.facebook.com/niccostarica"
    ],
    "url": "https://nic.cr"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/",
    "@type": "ProfilePage",
    "dateModified": "2026-10-17T13:59:00Z",
    "isPartOf": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#website"
    },
    "mainEntity": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/#organization"
    },
    "sdDatePublished": "2026-10-17",
    "sdPublisher": {
      "@id": "https://decisioninsights.ai/#organization"
    },
    "url": "https://decisioninsights.ai/registry/nic-costa-rica/"
  },
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "FAQPage",
    "mainEntity": [
      {
        "@type": "Question",
        "acceptedAnswer": {
          "@type": "Answer",
          "text": "NIC Costa Rica is the nonprofit registry administering the .cr country code top-level domain for Costa Rica."
        },
        "name": "Who is NIC Costa Rica?"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Question",
        "acceptedAnswer": {
          "@type": "Answer",
          "text": "NIC Costa Rica competes in: Information Technology / Software & Services / IT Services / Internet Services & Infrastructure."
        },
        "name": "What does NIC Costa Rica compete in?"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Question",
        "acceptedAnswer": {
          "@type": "Answer",
          "text": "No article in the knowledge graph for NIC Costa Rica yet."
        },
        "name": "How much coverage does NIC Costa Rica have on Decision Insights?"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Is this your company? Get structured data for your own pages

Company details

Headquarters
Costa Rica

Third-party company data. Not maintained by Decision Insights.

Connect

Listing Status

We have a listing for NIC Costa Rica, but nothing published about it. Claim it to publish your first update. Free.

We monitor public newswires for company news, but haven't found coverage of NIC Costa Rica yet. Newswire coverage depends on what a company distributes publicly, through which distributor, and under which license, not on NIC Costa Rica itself.

Claim this listing