Country extension · Réunion
.re domain name
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Specifications
The key details of .re
- Country
- Réunion
- Registry
- nic.fr
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Transfer time
- 5 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 .re?
- You can register and renew a .re domain name if you're an individual living in a member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Organisations and businesses are eligible if their head office or principal place of business is in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Both the registrant and the administrative contact must have an address in one of the permitted countries or territories, including the French overseas territories.
- If you don't have an address in a permitted country, you can use a local address through a trustee service. This then always applies to both the registrant and the administrative contact.
- The registrant and the administrative contact must be reachable on a valid phone number and email address. They must provide correct identity details and keep them up to date for as long as the domain is active.
- Names of 1 or 2 letters or numbers can't be registered under .re.
- You can't register prohibited terms, such as offensive, racist or obscene words and words that refer to crimes.
- You can only register reserved terms under special conditions, depending on your identity or rights. Think of names of regulated professions, government bodies, countries, international organisations and French municipalities.
- Afnic can delete domain names that don't comply with the naming rules after a check. Such a domain can't be recovered afterwards.
Additional details for registration
- As an individual, you provide your date of birth and country of birth.
- If you were born in France or a French overseas territory, you also provide your place of birth and its postcode, or at least the department code.
- As an individual, you can choose to keep your personal details hidden in the WHOIS.
- Organisations and businesses can be identified in various ways: with a SIREN or SIRET number, VAT number, DUNS number, trademark number or a registration number from a trade register within the European Economic Area.
- If you use a SIREN or SIRET number, the company name must match the name in the SIREN/SIRET database exactly.
- Associations can provide their Waldec number. That's enough for identification.
- Without a Waldec number, an association can also provide its date of establishment, along with the date of publication in the Journal officiel and the number and page of that publication.
Documents
- If you're a parent company outside Europe transferring a domain to a subsidiary within the permitted countries, you need a fully completed letter of authorisation.
Good to know when registering
- If you register through the trustee service, you can't use certificates for the domain name.
- Afnic can delete domain names immediately after an identity or eligibility check, without a redemption period.
Transfer
Transferring a .re
- You request the transfer from the new registrar and provide the transfer code you received from the current registrar.
- The current registrar is notified of the transfer. If it approves within 8 days, the transfer is completed straight away.
- If the current registrar doesn't respond within 8 days, the transfer goes through automatically after those 8 days.
- If the current registrar refuses within 8 days, the transfer takes 22 days in total. The registrar can still approve it during that period.
- After the transfer, the domain has a new expiry date.
- The administrative contact must also be based in the European Union when you transfer a domain.
- You can't transfer a domain and change the registrant at the same time.
The transfer code
- You need a transfer code to transfer a domain. You get it from your current registrar and pass it on to the new registrar.
- After a change of registrant, the transfer code is renewed. The new registrant receives the new code.
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Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant is only possible if both the old and the new registrant agree. The registrar records this consent, for example via a confirmation email or SMS code.
- The change of registrant is free and doesn't change the domain's expiry date.
- After the change, the old and the new registrant are notified. The new registrant receives a new transfer code.
- The new registrant must also meet the requirements for .re.
- If a parent company outside Europe transfers the domain to a subsidiary within the permitted countries, this is done using a completed letter of authorisation. Afnic then issues an authorisation code.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- To renew, you must also continue to meet the residence or establishment requirements for .re.
- If Afnic deletes a domain because it doesn't comply with the rules, there's no redemption period. Your registrar can't recover the domain either.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.fr
- Registry whois afnic.fr
- Dispute resolution policy syreli.fr
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