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About .fr domains

All .fr domains have the same requirements, restrictions, and supported features, such as registrations and renewals, transfers, and DNS.

Registrations and renewals

Anyone can register .fr domains on a first-come, first-served basis. Organizations and companies located in France must provide a VAT number during registration. Individuals located in France must provide their personal identification number in the VAT field during registration.

A trustee service will be used for registrants located outside of France, at no additional cost. It can take up to 72 hours for the trustee service to review the registration before the domain is active and available to use.

Required: Email verification must be completed to activate new .fr registrations by following the instructions sent to the registrant email address, otherwise the domain will be suspended and may be deleted by the registry.

New registrations

  • Registration length: 1-10 years
  • Must use: 1-63 characters
  • Can use: Letters (a-z characters), numbers (0-9) and hyphens (except in the 3rd and 4th characters of the domain name)
  • Cannot use: Special characters (e.g., & or #)
  • IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names): Supported

Renewals

  • Renewal length: 1-10 years
  • You can manually renew your domain anytime before expiration. We'll attempt to auto-renew 20 days before expiration, and we'll park the domain after the first failed billing attempt. Redemption fees may be applied 6 days before expiration. Check out the standard expiration timeline for details on what happens after expiration.

Features

DNS requirements

  • Must use: 2-13 nameservers
  • DNSSEC: Not Supported
  • IPv4: Supported
  • IPv6: Not Supported

.fr domains must use authoritative nameservers. This means the domain must already be configured with a valid DNS zone on the intended nameservers before they can be assigned to your .fr domain.

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