General
- Extension
- .fr
- Type
- Country-code extension
- Meaning
- France
- Registry
- Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (A.F.N.I.C.)
- Registry website
- www.nic.fr
- Registered since
- 2 September 1986
Properties
- DNSSEC signed
- yes
- Name servers
- 3 (3 with IPv6)
- WHOIS server
- whois.nic.fr
- RDAP server
- rdap.nic.fr
- At 1blu
- on request via kissdomain
Registration conditions
- Who may register?
- Natural persons resident, and organisations with their seat or principal place of business, in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. The same applies to the administrative contact.
- Length
- Up to 63 characters.
- Characters
- a–z, 0–9 and hyphen as well as accents and special characters such as à, é, ç, ö, œ or ß. No hyphen at the beginning or end and not in positions 3 and 4.
- Allocation
- In order of application. Afnic checks certain terms in advance.
- Registrant data
- The registrant and the administrative contact must be reachable by phone and e-mail.
- Term
- 1 to 10 years; renewal is tacit.
- Transfer
- With an AUTH_INFO code, which the current registrar must provide. Only the new registrar submits the request. The current registrar can agree or object within 8 days (an objection gives one further 22-day period); without a reply, the transfer takes place automatically after 8 days. The transfer changes the expiry date.
The registry's current rules are binding: www.nic.fr.
Sources: Afnic Naming Policy (6 July 2026) · Afnic: Managing your domain name · IANA Root Zone Database: .fr · As of 25 October 2026