Who can register a .fr domain?
Registration starts at $6.78 and renewal at $6.78 a year.
Who may register
Registrant must be resident or established in the EU/EEA, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.
What it costs
| Registration | $6.78 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $6.78 / year |
| Transfer | $6.78 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $6.78 |
Standard price from Dynadot. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.
Source
Read from the registry's own policy page: https://www.afnic.fr/en/domain-names-and-support/everything-there-is-to-know-about-domain-names/who-can-register-a-fr-domain-name/. Read on 2026-07-29.
Is a .fr name free?
Availability comes from the registry itself over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.
You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:
curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.fr