.fr domains

France

The Country code top-level domain for France is .FR and was created in year 1986. It's being managed by AFNIC (French Network Information Center) and has approximately 2,500,000 registered domains, with a monthly growth rate of 44,000 new domains.

Rates and features

.fr

8,95 €

It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Europe

New period when transfer completes

Action	Price/year	Periodes	Dominitis
Registration	8,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Renewal	8,95 €	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 year(s)	2 dominitis
Transfer	8,95 €	1 year(s)	2 dominitis
Restore	9,95 €	Includes domain renewal for 1 year	-

Features
Domain length:	1 - 63 characters
Residency requirements / Membership:	It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Europe
Transfer system:	The expiration date changes but a new year isn't added. The new expiration date will be created adding a year to the transfer completion date.

Regulations

.fr domain life cycle

				30 days
	Domain registration		Expiration date		Deletion date
Domain available		Domain active		Redemption period		Domain available

Redemption Period

Permitted characters / IDN

.fr domains permit characters from 'a' to 'z', numbers from '0' to '9' and hyphens '-'.
A hyphen '-' is not permitted in the first or last position of the domain name.
Two consecutive hyphens are not permitted in the 3rd and 4th position.
IDN characters are permitted in .fr domains.

Permitted IDN character table for .fr domains

An Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) is a domain name that can contain non ASCII characters.

Hyphen (-)
Digits (0-9)
Characters (a-z)

Character	Unicode	HTML Code	HTML Number	Unicode Table

LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
ß	U+00DF	ß	ß	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
à	U+00E0	à	à	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
á	U+00E1	á	á	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
â	U+00E2	â	â	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
ã	U+00E3	ã	ã	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
ä	U+00E4	ä	ä	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
å	U+00E5	å	å	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
æ	U+00E6	æ	æ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
ç	U+00E7	ç	ç	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
è	U+00E8	è	è	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
é	U+00E9	é	é	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ê	U+00EA	ê	ê	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
ë	U+00EB	ë	ë	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
ì	U+00EC	ì	ì	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
í	U+00ED	í	í	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
î	U+00EE	î	î	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
ï	U+00EF	ï	ï	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
ñ	U+00F1	ñ	ñ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
ò	U+00F2	ò	ò	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
ó	U+00F3	ó	ó	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
ô	U+00F4	ô	ô	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
õ	U+00F5	õ	õ	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
ö	U+00F6	ö	ö	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
ù	U+00F9	ù	ù	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
ú	U+00FA	ú	ú	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
û	U+00FB	û	û	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
ü	U+00FC	ü	ü	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
ý	U+00FD	ý	ý	Latin-1 Supplement
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
ÿ	U+00FF	ÿ	ÿ	Latin-1 Supplement

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
œ	U+0153	&oelig;	œ	Latin Extended-A

IDN domains don't permit to mix different Scripts or character sets (for example, Latin, Greek or Cyrillic).
But it's possible to use different character tables for a same script.
- The Latin Script permits the use of characters of Latin-1 supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, etc.. tables.
- The Greek Script permits to combine characters of the Greek, Greek Extended, etc.. tables, doesn't permit combine them with the normal latin characters (a-z), but permits the use of numbers or hyphens.
- Other script types have their own corresponding tables.

Residency requirements

It's required for the domain's administrative contact to reside in Europe

Technical requirements

This extension doesn't have any technical requirements.

Registrations

.fr domain registrations are immediate.

Transfers

To complete .FR domain transfer, you'll need your current registrar to provide you the domain's AuthCode or EPP-Key to verify the ownership of the domain.

Transfers can take between 5 and 7 days to complete. Some registrars provide manual transfers allowing transfers to be completed on the same day, contact your current registrar to find out if they offer this service.

More information about .FR domain transfers

The expiration date changes but a new year isn't added. The new expiration date will be created adding a year to the transfer completion date.

Renewals

.FR domains must be renewed the month prior the expiration date, for example, if the expiration date is the 25th September, the renewal must have been requested before the last day of August. Renewals can take up to three days in order to complete.

Cancellations

.FR domains can't be cancelled.

DNS modifications

DNS modification is immediate, please note they must propagate through the network, this process can take up to 6-12 hours to complete, until then the domain will still point to the previous DNS servers.

DNSSEC

We allow the usage of DNSSEC on .fr domains. Your domain can take advantage of this additional security layer that DNS servers that are compatible with this technology can provide.
More information is available at: What is DNSSEC and how does it work

Domain owner change

.FR domains allow to change the registrant but this has to be done using a TRADE process, this process has cost and doesn't imply the domain renewal. Please contact us if you're interested in changing the registrant of your .FR domain.