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Who can register a .fr domain? |
| From 1995, AFNIC set up some registration rules to give to everyone an opportunity to have its own .fr domain name and to prevent from the domain name conflicts. These rules are gathered in Naming Charters. We will give you some highlights. Please click here to download the complete document. |
Registration rules for .fr domain names |
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Individuals or corporate entities in one of the following three categories can register a .fr first level domain name: Corporate entities Corporate entities whose headquarters are located in France or which havepremises in France and which can be identified in the following electronicdatabases: • Commercial court registriesBrand Holders Individuals or corporate entities which hold a brand registered with the nationalinstitute of industrial property or which hold a registered community trademark or international brand targeted specifically at the French market and which can beidentified from the ICIMARQUES (INPI) database. Individuals Adult individuals with an address in France. Individuals must be able to prove an address in France for over 3 (three) consecutive months prior to requesting the administrative act. Accessibility When submitting a registration application, the holder of a domain name must designate “an administrative contact” and maintain this contact throughout the entire usage period of the domain name. This contact can be changed via the registrar (Quixys France). The administrative contact is, at the holder's discretion, an individual or a corporate entity which may be external to the holder, for instance a registrar. The administrative contact must be based in France and have an effective address in France to which legal and extrajudicial documents can be sent. It is imperative that the AFNIC can contact either the holder of the domain name or the administrative contact, depending on the case in question. The holder and the administrative contact must therefore each advise and ensure the continued functionality of a telephone number and an email address. Failure to comply with this obligation will result in the blocking, and if applicable the subsequent withdrawal, of the domain name. The holder is obliged, throughout the entire duration of the domain name, to immediately update, via their registrar, the information advised when registering ortransmitting the domain name. |
About the list of prohibited and reserved terms |
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It is reminded that this list may evolve because of any decision from the Board of Directors (of the AFNIC), of the autorities' decision or because of the evolution of Internet or the reglementation. According to the Naming charters, any term can become a foundamental term at after any administrative act or even autorativly and be pre-empted or recovered by AFNIC without any compensation and withing a sufficient delay to assume its migration. The opposable list of prohibited and reserved terms is the one available on AFNIC web site on the day it receive the administrative act sent by the registrar. |
List of prohibited and reserved terms |
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The list of the basic terms is divided in two parts: Prohibited terms They cannot be attributed due their nature, without the agreement of the AFNIC's Board of Directors. Eg.: insulting, racist or obscene terms or terms relating to crimes or infractions. Synonyms and terms with ethymologic similarities will also be refused.Reserved terms They can only be attributed under particular conditions bound by the owner identity and its rights. Eg.: technical Internet terms, the names of regulated professions, terms relating to State functioning, the names of the countries that have signed the Paris Convention or terms used for international organizations as well as the names of the French cities as published in their canonical form (i.e. in their simplest form possible, without dash or apostrophe) by the INSEE-The National Statistical and Economic Studies Institute.
Example of the canonical form: Name of the city as in the INSEE list: Canonical form(s): Other reserved forms: Non-reserved forms (when a caracter minimum is different from the canonical form(s): |