New extension
.paris domain name
What you need to know about .paris: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .paris
- Registry
- extranet.nic.paris
- 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
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 12
- Renewable after expiry date
- 35 days
- 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: no
Requirements
Who can register a .paris?
- You can only register and renew a .paris domain name if you, as an individual or organisation, have a genuine connection with the Greater Paris region, both at registration and afterwards.
- You must be able to show that you live in the Greater Paris region, or carry out professional, personal, business or cultural activities there, or are directly or indirectly connected with it.
- The exact conditions are set out in the registration policy of the .paris registry.
Good to know when registering
- After a successful registration, the registry places a 60-day transfer lock on the domain name. During this period, you can't transfer it to another registrar.
Transfer
Transferring a .paris
- You need a transfer code, which you request from your current registrar.
- Check beforehand that there's no transfer lock on the domain name; you can see this in the WHOIS. If the current registrar has set a lock, you as the registrant can have that registrar remove it.
- Once the transfer has been submitted, the registry automatically notifies the current registrar.
- The current registrar emails the registrant, and sometimes the administrative contact, about the transfer, often with the option to approve or reject it.
- If you do nothing, the transfer is completed automatically after 5 days.
The transfer code
- A transfer code is required for a transfer. The registrant or administrative contact requests it from the current registrar.
- The code is 8 to 32 characters long and contains at least one letter, one digit and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - or :.
Owner
Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant falls under ICANN's transfer policy.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- When you renew, you must still meet the requirement of having a connection with the Greater Paris region.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website extranet.nic.paris
- Dispute resolution policy icann.org
- Registry terms and conditions nic.paris
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