This article describes the procedures and requirements of .fr domain names.
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Successful domain registration requires:
- Registrant contact require:
- Located within the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland
- For private individual
- the date, place and country of birth (hidden in whois)
- the date, place and country of birth (hidden in whois)
- Technical contact must be a company
- two or more nameservers or a nameserver group
Registry maintains a list of domain names to the "reserved" status (towns, community names). If registration fails with a "2304, Object status prohibits operation" error, contact us in such case (reserved domain names can be registered if the registrant has a legitimate interest).
Domain names under the extensions .com.fr, .asso.fr and .tm.fr are discontinued since 2013. No new domain names can be registered under those extensions. Existing domains under those extensions can be managed like any other domain and can be transferred into Openprovider.
Registrants from the United Kingdom that registered their domain before the 1st of January 2021 are eligible to keep their domain name; they can update, transfer and renew their domain name as any other registrant. However, as the Brexit transition period ended, new registrations for registrants from the United Kingdom are not allowed anymore.
Successful domain transfer via RCP or API requires:
- Registrant contact require:
- Located within the EU
- For private individual
- the date, place and country of birth (hidden in whois)
- the date, place and country of birth (hidden in whois)
- Technical contact must be a company
- two or more nameservers or a nameserver group
The transfer period is subject to cooperation of the current registrar:
- if the current registrar approves the transfer, it completes immediately
- if the current registrar does not approve/reject the transfer, it completes after 8 days
- if the current registrar rejects the transfer within the first 8 days, it completes after 22 days
If the holder wants to cancel an initiated transfer, only the gaining registrar (Openprovider) can do so; you can cancel the transfer from the transfer queue in RCP.
The registry will not send an e-mail to the domain contacts after the transfer finishes.
Authorization code required | yes |
Method of confirmation | authcode |
Registration period after transfer | restarts |
Average transfer time | 8-22 days |
Advanced and simple transfers available | Contact our Sales department to check if easy transfer of 100 or more .fr domains is available. |
Owner change (trade)
- requested as a normal domain update via RCP or API
- processed realtime
If your domain is premium/reserved - contact us to validate this change.
Other update
- requested via RCP or API
- processed realtime
Delete
- requested via RCP or API
- processed realtime
- will result in a quarantine period
Restore / reactivate
- restore / reactivation supported via RCP or API
- quarantine period can be found under
Detailed extension information > Technical information > Quarantine period
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Registration agreement | The registry requires that a registration agreement is in place between the provider and the domain holder. The text of this registration agreement and any required supplements is the following: |
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