Country extension · French Southern Territories
.tf domain name
Register or transfer your .tf with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .tf and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .tf
- Country
- French Southern Territories
- Registry
- nic.fr
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer code length
- 12 to 32 characters
- Transfer lock available
- no
- Number of nameservers
- 2 to 12
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: yesIf you don't meet the local address requirement, you can use a trustee service.
Requirements
Who can register a .tf?
- You can register and renew a .tf domain name if you live in a member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland as an individual, or if your organisation has its head office or main activity there.
- The French overseas territories, such as Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna, also count as permitted territories.
- Both the registrant and the administrative contact must have an address in one of the permitted countries.
- If you live outside the permitted countries, you can use a local address through a trustee service. This requires a separate trustee agreement, and the service always covers both the registrant and the administrative contact together.
- The registrant and the administrative contact must be reachable via a valid phone number and email address, with correct identity details. You must keep these details up to date for as long as the domain name exists.
- Domain names of one or two letters or numbers are not available.
- Prohibited terms include offensive, racist and obscene terms, as well as terms related to crime or criminal offences.
- Some terms are reserved and can only be registered under certain conditions, depending on who you are or what rights you hold. Examples include names of regulated professions, French municipalities, government institutions, local authorities, countries and international organisations.
- Afnic keeps a list of domain names reserved for special use or for specific people and organisations.
Additional details for registration
- As an individual, you provide your date of birth and country of birth.
- If you were born in France or a French overseas territory, you also provide your place of birth and its postcode, or at least the department code.
- As an individual, you can choose not to have your personal details shown publicly in the whois.
- Organisations can have their identity verified in several ways, for example with a SIREN or SIRET number, a VAT number, a DUNS number, a trademark number or a registration number from a trade register in a country in the European Economic Area.
- If you use a SIREN or SIRET number, the company name must be exactly the same as in the SIREN/SIRET registration.
- A French association can identify itself with its Waldec number. That is sufficient.
- An association can also provide its date of establishment, together with the date of publication in the Journal Officiel and the number and page of that publication.
Good to know when registering
- Afnic may check the identity and eligibility of the registrant. Afnic can then delete domain names that don't comply with the rules itself.
- If Afnic deletes a domain name for this reason, this happens immediately and without a redemption period. You can't get the name back afterwards.
- Additional conditions may apply to reserved terms, as described in Afnic's procedures manual.
Transfer
Transferring a .tf
- You request the transfer code from your current registrar and give it to the new registrar. The new registrar then uses it to submit the transfer request.
- The administrative contact must still be based in the European Union or another permitted country after the transfer.
- The current registrar is notified of the transfer. If it approves within 8 days, the transfer is completed immediately. If it doesn't respond within 8 days, the transfer still goes ahead after those 8 days.
- If the current registrar refuses within 8 days, the transfer takes 22 days in total. The current registrar can still approve it during that period.
- There is a charge for a transfer. The expiry date changes, because the term starts again.
- You can't carry out a transfer and a change of registrant at the same time.
The transfer code
- To transfer a domain, you need a transfer code, which you as the registrant request from your current registrar and give to the new registrar.
- After a change of registrant, the domain name gets a new transfer code. This is given to the new registrant.
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Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- A change of registrant requires permission from both the current and the new registrant. The registrar records this permission, for example via a confirmation email or an SMS code.
- A change of registrant is free and doesn't change the expiry date of the domain name.
- After the change, the old and the new registrant are notified. The new registrant also receives a new transfer code.
- The new registrant must also meet the requirements for .tf themselves.
- A change of registrant can't be carried out at the same time as a transfer.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- You can only renew a .tf domain name if you still meet the requirements, such as residence or establishment in a permitted country.
- If Afnic deletes a domain name because it doesn't comply with the rules, there is no redemption period and you can't get the name back.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website nic.fr
- Registry whois afnic.fr
- Dispute resolution policy syreli.fr
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