Country extension · Wallis & Futuna
.wf domain name
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Specifications
The key details of .wf
- Country
- Wallis & Futuna
- 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 .wf?
- You can register and renew a .wf domain name if, as an individual, you live in an EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland, or if, as an organisation, you have your head office or principal place of business there.
- The French overseas territories also count, such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna and the French Southern Territories.
- Both the registrant and the administrative contact must have an address within this area.
- If you don't have an address within this area, you can use a local address through a trustee service. This always applies to both the registrant and the administrative contact, never to just one of them.
- If you use the trustee service, separate trustee terms apply and you can't use certificates for the domain name.
- The registrant and the administrative contact must be reachable via a valid phone number and email address. They must also provide accurate identity details and keep them up to date for as long as the domain is active.
- Domain names of 1 or 2 letters or digits aren't released for registration under .wf.
- You can't register prohibited terms, such as offensive, racist or obscene terms and terms that refer to crimes or criminal offences.
- You can only register reserved terms under special conditions, depending on your identity or rights. Examples include names of regulated professions, French municipalities, government bodies, local authorities, countries and international organisations.
- Afnic may delete domain names that don't comply with the naming rules on its own initiative after a check.
Additional details for registration
- If you're an individual, you provide your date of birth and your 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 number.
- As an individual, you can choose whether your personal details are visible in the whois or kept private.
- For a business or organisation, you can have the registrant verified in various ways, for example with a SIREN or SIRET number, a VAT number, a DUNS number, a trademark number or a registration number from a local register in the European Economic Area.
- If you use a SIREN or SIRET number, the company name must exactly match the name in the SIREN/SIRET database.
- A French association can identify itself with its Waldec number. That number is sufficient on its own.
- Without a Waldec number, an association provides its date of establishment and the date of publication in the Journal Officiel, plus the announcement number and the page number.
Good to know when registering
- Domain names that Afnic deletes because they don't meet the naming rules or eligibility requirements are deleted immediately. There's no redemption period and you can't recover them.
- Such a deletion happens in two steps: Afnic first puts the domain name in its own name, visible in the whois as AFNIC -Opération-Interne, and then deletes it permanently.
Transfer
Transferring a .wf
- You request the transfer from the new registrar and provide the transfer code. This code confirms the request.
- 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 goes ahead automatically after those 8 days.
- If the current registrar refuses within 8 days, the transfer takes up to 22 days in total. The current registrar can still approve it during that period.
- The administrative contact must still be based within the EU after the transfer.
- A transfer is charged and changes the expiry date. A new registration period begins.
- You can't combine a transfer with a change of registrant. Do the two separately.
The transfer code
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code. As the registrant, you give this to the new registrar.
- After a change of registrant, the domain name gets a new transfer code. This must be passed on to the new registrant.
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Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant is processed as a standard update of the domain name.
- Both the old and the new registrant must give their approval. The registrar records this consent, for example via a confirmation email or a text message code.
- The registry doesn't charge for the change of registrant and the expiry date stays the same.
- After the change, the old and the new registrant are notified and the new registrant receives the new transfer code.
- A change of registrant can't be done at the same time as a transfer to another registrar.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- When you renew, you must also meet the eligibility requirements, so you must live or be based in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
- Certain reserved names registered before the French domain name law of 2007 may still be renewed under certain conditions.
- If Afnic deletes a domain name because it doesn't comply with the rules, there's no redemption period and the domain name can't be recovered.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.fr
- Registry whois afnic.fr
- Dispute resolution policy syreli.fr
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