.FR Domain Name Rules/Requirements

Domain Name related Rules

Common Domain Name Rules (Anchor: common)

Domain Name Registration (Anchor: reg)

  • Registering a .FR domain name requires the Registrant to be from the EU (or the 4 countries of the European Economic Zone: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland). The Administrative contact has no such restrictions on the country.

  • A .FR Domain Name may be Registered for 1 to 10 years.

  • A .FR Domain Name has a Money Back Grace Period of  4 days.

  • DNSSEC is supported for .FR Domain Names.

  • The Bulk Registration feature not is available for .FR Domain Names.

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    Bulk Registration

  • VeoHost.Com supports .FR Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) in the French language.

Domain Name Renewal (Anchor: ren)

  • A .FR Domain Name may be Renewed for 1 to 10 years.

Domain Name Transfer (Anchor: trf)

Note

If you provided your previous registrar with personal information such as your birth date, SIRET number or EIN, please note that this won’t be requested for or manageable through VeoHost.Com. The Registry no longer asks for this information, in other words, it is no longer mandatory to provide this information at the time of Registration or Transfers.

  • .FR transfers only require the authorization code to be provided. Once a transfer-in is initiated, it might take upto 8 days (and in some cases upto 22 days) for the transfer to be successful. 

  • There is no 60 day lock placed on a domain post registration or transfer.

Contact Details Related Rules (Anchor: contact)

  • .FR Domain Names use the .FR Contact Contact database in the system.

    .FR Domain Names use the following 2 Contacts:

    • Registrant Contact which can be either an Individual or a Company.

    • Administrative which can either be Individuals or a Company.
      In both cases, if the company field is blank or empty at the time of contact creation, the contact is considered to be an Individual contact, or else it will be created as a Company contact.

    • There is no Billing Contact for a .FR domain name.

    • Although, .FR domains have a technical contact, it always needs to be of type Organization. We understand not all users might have a company name to provide, which is why we pass the Registrar details as the technical contact. 

    • The registrant contact country needs to be from the EU (or the 4 countries of the European Economic Zone: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland). There is no such restriction on the Admin contact country.

    • If the Name, Email Address or/and Company field needs to be modified for a Registrant contact, the losing and gaining Registrants will receive an email where they will need to explicitly authorize the change in Registrant details, without which the Registrant modification action will not be processed.

    • Due to restrictions at the Registry level, the GDPR protection/masking feature is not supported for .FR domain names. If the contact being associated with a .FR domain is of type Individual, the contact information will be automatically hidden from the Whois. However, if the contact is of type Organization, we are obliged to display the true contact information on the public Whois. 

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      GDPR Protection

  • .FR domain names do not support VeoHost.Com's Privacy Protection feature.

  • The Bulk Modify feature is not supported for .FR domain names.

Note

The .FR Registry (Afnic) may carry out checks as part of qualification operations to ensure the eligibility and/or the reachability of the holder of the domain name. The qualification process consists of two distinct processes, namely the verification process and the substantiation process. More details can be found on Afnic's website.