Country extension · France
.fr domain name
Register or transfer your .fr with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .fr and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .fr
- Country
- France
- Registry
- nic.fr
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Transfer time
- 8 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 12 to 32 characters
- Transfer lock available
- no
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 12
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .fr?
- You may register and renew a .fr domain name if you're a private individual living in a member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Organisations and companies may register if their head office or principal place of business is in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Registrants from French overseas territories such as Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon are also allowed.
- Both the registrant and the administrative contact must have an address within the European Union.
- If you don't have an address in the European Union, a local address through a trustee service is possible. That service then applies to both the registrant and the administrative contact, not to just one of them.
- The registrant and the administrative contact must be reachable. You provide a valid phone number and email address and correct identity details, and you keep them up to date for as long as the domain name is active.
- You can't register prohibited terms. These include offensive, racist and obscene terms and terms referring to crimes or criminal offences.
- Reserved terms can only be registered under special conditions, depending on who you are or what rights you hold.
- Examples of reserved terms include technical internet terms, names of regulated professions, terms relating to government, country names, names of international organisations and names of French municipalities.
- The name of the French Republic, national institutions, local authorities and names of elected officials combined with their position are also reserved.
- Afnic can delete domain names that don't comply with the naming rules itself after an identity or eligibility check. Such a domain name doesn't go into quarantine and can no longer be restored.
Additional details for registration
- As a private individual, you provide your date of birth and country of birth.
- If you were born in France or in a French overseas territory, you also provide your place of birth and its postcode, or at least the department number.
- As a private individual, you can choose whether your personal details are visible in the public Whois or hidden.
- A company can be identified by a SIREN or SIRET number. The company name must then match the name in the SIREN/SIRET database exactly.
- A company can also be identified by a VAT number, a DUNS number, a trademark number or a registration number with a trade register in the European Economic Area, such as the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
- An association can be identified by its Waldec number. That alone is sufficient.
- Alternatively, an association can provide its date of founding and its publication details in the French Official Journal: the publication date, the announcement number and the page number.
Good to know when registering
- Since 6 December 2012, you can no longer register domain names under com.fr, asso.fr and tm.fr.
- If you register through the trustee service, you can't use certificates for that domain name.
- Registering reserved terms may be subject to additional rules from Afnic's procedures manual.
Transfer
Transferring a .fr
- The transfer is requested by the new registrar. To do this, you give the transfer code to your new registrar.
- The current registrar is notified of the transfer. If it approves within 8 days, the transfer is completed immediately.
- If the current registrar doesn't respond within 8 days, the transfer is completed automatically after those 8 days.
- If the current registrar refuses within 8 days, the transfer takes 22 days in total. The current registrar can still approve during that period.
- When you transfer a domain, you pay a fee and the domain name's expiry date changes. A new term begins.
- After the transfer, the administrative contact must have an address within the European Union.
- You can't carry out a transfer and a change of registrant at the same time. This hasn't been possible since 30 June 2015.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain. As the registrant, you give it to the new registrar, and this approves the transfer.
- After a change of registrant, the domain name gets a new transfer code. This is passed on to the new registrant.
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Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant is free and doesn't change the domain name's expiry date.
- A change of registrant requires both the old and the new registrant. The registrar records their consent, for example through a confirmation email or a code by text message.
- After the change of registrant, both the old and the new registrant are notified. The new registrant receives a new transfer code.
- For domain names under com.fr, asso.fr and tm.fr, a change of registrant is in principle not possible.
- There's one exception for com.fr: a parent company outside Europe may transfer the domain name to a subsidiary in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- For that exception, you provide a fully completed letter of authorisation. Afnic then issues an authorisation code.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- To renew, you must also meet the residence or establishment requirements for the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Certain reserved names that were already registered before the French domain name law of 2007 may continue to be renewed.
- An expired domain name under com.fr can no longer be restored.
- If Afnic deletes a domain name because it doesn't comply with the naming rules, the domain name doesn't go into quarantine and you can't restore it.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.fr
- Registry whois afnic.fr
- Dispute resolution policy syreli.fr
- Registry terms and conditions afnic.fr
Compiled from the registry's rules. Registries sometimes change their rules; if in doubt, the registry's terms take precedence. Updated on 11/11/2026.