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Zone Info

.FR is the official country code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) of France.

Zone Use

.FR name space will be open to all individuals and entities domiciled in the European Union (please see chapter Restrictions) on December 6, 2011. Furthermore, the registration of .WF, .TF, .RE, .PM and .YT domains will be made available for all businesses / organizations in the European Union.

The following may apply to register a domain name in each of the top-level domains:

• Individuals resident in the territory of the European Union
• Entities having their registered or main office on the territory of a Member of the European Union 

Characters

• Minimum: 3
• Maximum: 63
• Letters and numbers
• Hyphens ("-"), however not at the beginning or directly in front of the TLD

IDN info

• The following characters are available for IDN domains:
  ß, à, á, â, ã, ä, å, æ, ç, è, é, ê, ë, ì,í, î, ï, ñ, ò, ó, ô, õ, ö, ù, ú, û, ü, ý, ÿ, oe

Restrictions

• The tech-contact must not be identical with the Owner Contact.

• COM.FR, ASSO.FR and TM.FR 3rd level domains are not available for registration anymore since December 6th 2012. It is also not possible to change the registrant for a .COM.FR, ASSO.FR and TM.FR domain names.

• Both owner and admin contact require a local address within the European Union (please see below list). If one of the contacts has no local address in European Union, you may use our trustee service for both contacts; the trustee service cannot be used only for one of the two contacts.

Nameservers for a .FR domain have to be correctly configured before the actual registration.

Registrants from the following European countries are allowed to register domain names under .FR and the other AFNIC TLDs mentioned above:

• AT - Austria
• BE - Belgium
• BG - Bulgaria
• CY - Cypress
• CZ - Czech Republic
• DE - Germany
• DK - Denmark
• EE - Estonia
• ES - Spain
• FI - Finland
• AX - Aland Islands
• FR - France
• GP - Guadeloupe
• GF - French Guiana
• MQ - Martinique
• RE - Reunion
• TF - French Southern Territories
• YT - Mayotte
• PF - French Polynesia
• NC - New Caledonia
• PM - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• WF - Wallis and Futuna
• GB - United Kingdom
• GI - Gibraltar
• GR - Greece
• HU - Hungary
• IS - Iceland
• IE - Ireland
• IT - Italy
• LI - Liechtenstein
• LT - Lithuania
• LU - Luxembourg
• LV - Latvia
• MT - Malta
• NL - Netherlands
• NO - Norway
• PL - Poland
• PT - Portugal
• RO - Romania
• SE - Sweden
• SI - Slovenia
• SK - Slovakia
• CH - Switzerland

Please note:

Restrictions on individuals and corporate entities which are eligible to register a domain name

Any individual residing and any legal entity having its headquarters or principal place of business as specified below may apply to register or renew a domain name in each of the top-level domains:

• within the territory of one of the member states of the European Union;
• within the territory of the following countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

Please note:
The domain name holder and the administrative contact must be reachable. As such, both the holder and the administrative contact must provide details of a valid telephone number and e-mail address, including accurate information to establish their identities. While the domain name is active, they must ensure that such information is kept up-to-date at all times.

Reserved domain names

Reserved domain names of the registry for special use or special individuals or organizations can be found here http://www.afnic.fr/obtenir/chartes/fondamentaux

Prohibited terms and reserved terms

• Prohibited terms

The list of terms that cannot be registered because they are "prohibited terms" includes, in particular

• Abusive terms
• Racist terms
• Obscene terms
• Terms relating to crime or offenses

• Reserved terms

The list of terms that are "reserved" and can be registered only subject to special conditions, based on the identity or rights of the applicant include, in particular

• Technical Internet terms
• Names of regulated professions;
• Terms relating to government operation;
• Names of the signatory countries of the Paris Convention;
• Dedicated names or terms of international organizations;
• Names of French towns and villages in their base form: the list of reserved terms can be consulted directly on the INSEE website;
• The name of the French Republic, its national institutions and public services, either alone or associated with words referring to such institutions or services
• The name of a local authority, inter-municipal agreement with agglomeration-wide fiscal resources, either alone or associated with words or abbreviations referring to local institutions
• The name of someone in office, associated with words referring to their elective functions.

Under Article R.20-44-43-IV, provisions 7 to 9 do not prevent the

renewal of domain names registered before the enactment of France's

Domain Name Allocation and Management Act 2007, amending the

French Electronic Communications and Telecommunications Act:

• By a company whose name is identical to the registered name and which registered that name as a trademark before 1st January 2004
• By an association whose mission is to defend and promote a protected "designation of origin" for which the name has been registered.

The registration of reserved terms may be subject to specific provisions stipulated in the Procedures Manual.

• The use of certificates for domain names using trustee service will not be possible.