.FR is the ccTLD for France and is managed by the AFNIC registry.

Specifications

Restrictions

.FR domains are processed during EST business hours, please allow up to 3 days for orders to complete.

Registration Requirements

Registrants must reside in France, or have a trademark which is recognised in France.

The Admin contact must always be located in France and have a valid street address and phone number. Regardless of where the registrant is located.

• Individual registrants located in France must provide their place and date of birth.
• Organisations located in France must provide their SIREN/SIRET number.
• Individuals or Organisations NOT located in France must provide their trademark registration number.

The AFNIC registry also imposes extensive requirements & restrictions on DNS servers, and the DNS zone files.

General conditions

• The zone is installed in all the nameservers (at least two) given in the installation request ticket sent to the auto-ticket@nic.fr address.
• The primary server name in the Server of Authority (SOA) record corresponds to the first server given in the list of servers to install.
• The zone contact (RNAME) is valid and contactable by email.
• The zone serial number is the same on each server.
• The refresh time is at least one hour.
• The retry time is at least one hour.
• The expire time is at least a week, and much higher than the refresh time.
• The TTL time in the SOA specifies the TTL for negative responses (NXDOMAIN) and must not exceed one day.
• The TTL time is at least one hour for SOA and NS records.
• The list of zone name servers returned by the server corresponds to the list of servers requested in the ticket.
• There is one MX for the zone, using a message service relay with a legal name that must be (or must point to) an Internet address (A record); any alias (CNAME) will be refused in accordance with the RFCs.
• The postmaster@domain-name.fr or postmaster@domain-name.re mailbox must be contactable.
• The contents of the zone conform to the RFCs.

Configuration of nameservers

• The server must have international IP connectivity.
• The server must be online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• The DNS service must be accessible on port 53 in UDP and TCP, and to ICMP echo packets, for packets sent from any machine on the Internet.
• The server must have authority for the requested zone.
• The server must obtain the correct list of name servers corresponding to each of the ".fr / .re", ".in-addr.arpa" and "." zones, and must not have authority unless it is mentioned in this list. The addresses of the servers mentioned must be correct.
• The server obtains the correct address for each of the other servers in the zone.
• The server calculates checksums for UDP packets and generates its IP packets with a TTL of at least 64.
• The server does not forward requests to AFNIC servers.
• It must be possible to obtain the server names based on their IP addresses.

Messaging

• The VRFY command is implemented in accordance with RFC1123.
• The return code must be of type "2xx" in accordance with RFC1893.
• The postmaster@domain-name.fr or postmaster@domain-name.re address can be delivered to on the first message service relay.
• It must be possible to deliver to the zone contact address specified in the SOA record on the first message service relay.

Network database (RIPE - RADB)

For each server mentioned:

• There is an "inetnum" record for the network to which it belongs.
• There is a "route" record for the network to which it belongs.

For each zone registration request:

• The first technical contact is located at the requesting registrar,
• The identifier of the first technical contact is a NIC-HDL of a role object in the FRNIC database.

Renewal Requirements

.FR domains have no renewal grace period and are removed for the registrar's management on the day of expiary. It is highly recommended you renew the domain before expiary to avoid restore fees and additional complexities.