The dot com domain
Visit Rio Tinto.com is a part of the
Phone Book of the World
domain collection
which started in the 1990s.

There are many many Tourist Info Sites
around the World,
all using completely different names.

Different languages or even local internet codes
can make it difficult to remember them.

With the arrival of the Internet
the designers of some pioneering Tourist Info sites
started to use the expression "Visit"
followed by the name of a city or a country
and the universally recognized TLD
dot com,
always dot com

"Visit" is easy to understand
for every tourist around the globe.
The expression comes from "Visitors Bureau",
an American / British / Scandinavian term
for Tourist Office / Office de Tourisme.

The first Visit website
might be Visit New York.com registered 1996 april 21
followed by Visit London.com registered 1998 nov 02

Today almost every day
a new "Visit" site comes alive.

In case you have a website
with interesting infos for tourists
like a museum
we can integrate your site
into the search engine
on the VisitRio Tinto.com homepage

mail
y "at" vb.com