About .fr domains

To get info about price, terms and restrictions, registration details, privacy protection and more for .fr domains, select a category.

Price

Type	Price	Learn more
Yearly registration	$10 USD	Buy a domain
Fee to restore an expired or deleted domain	$30 USD	Restore a domain

Terms and restrictions

Terms and restrictions	Details	Learn more
Registrar of record	Key systems	Understand your registrar of record
Registry	Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération (AFNIC)	About registries
ccTLD	Yes – France	Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state or dependent territory.
Restrictions	Yes	.fr domains require residence in a member nation of the European Union. See European Union: Countries for a list of member nations.  Residents of the United Kingdom are no longer eligible for .fr domains as of 1 January 2021. Residents of the United Kingdom can keep and renew domains that were registered before 1 January 2021 but cannot change their address to a non-EU address.

Registration

Registration information	Details	Learn more
Maximum registration period	10 years	This is the maximum number of years that you can manually add to your domain registration.
Transfer purchase requirement	One year	About domain transfers to Google Domains
Transfer authorisation required	No	This indicates if the current registrant requires authorisation to complete a transfer. If so, the current registrant receives a verification email.
Auto-renew timing versus expiry date	15 days before the expiry date	If you have auto-renew enabled, this is the number of days before or after your registration expires that Google Domains processes an auto-renew payment.
Auto-renew grace period	Zero days	When you enable auto-renew, this is the number of days after your registration expires that you have to update your payment method until your service is disrupted.
Expiry disruption period	Zero days	If you don't have auto-renew enabled and your registration expires, you have a certain number of days before your service is disrupted.
Renewal grace period	2 days before the expiry date	When your domain expires, you have a certain number of days to renew the domain for another year. For more details about price, go to the price section above.
Restoration grace period	30 days	After the renewal grace period, you have a certain number of days to restore the domain for another year. After that time, it becomes available to the public for registration. For more details about price, go to the price section above.
Availability wait period	30 days	When a domain is deleted, you must wait a certain number of days before the domain is available to the public for registration.

Privacy info

Due to the publication policies set by AFNIC, contact info for individuals is hidden in the WHOIS directory unless you turn off Privacy protection.

Registrants with info in the 'Organisation' field for the following are considered organisations and have their contact info shown in the WHOIS directory:

• Registrant
• Administrative contact
• Technical contact

For individual registrants, you may publish all your personal contact info publicly with an .fr domain ending.  

Privacy information	Details	Learn more
Privacy protection allowed	No	About privacy protection
Privacy protection provider	-	Privacy Policy

Domain name system (DNS) information

DNS information	Details	Learn more
The domain name supports non-ASCII characters (for example, À, É, Î or グ)	Yes	IANA Repository of IDN Practices
Number of characters in a domain name	3–63	The domain name characters can be letters, numbers or a combination of both. The character length applies only to the domain name, and doesn't include the domain ending, such as .com or .net.
Number of name servers	2–8	Manage domain name servers
Supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)	Yes	Setting up DNSSEC