IDN domains
Characters of national alphabets may not be used in domain names. Domain names may contain only Latin characters, numbers and hyphens ('-').

Domain renewal
FR domain should be renewed prior to expiration of its registration term specified in your account. If FR domain was not renewed within the specified term, it is deactivated and further deleted.
ATTENTION! The deadline for renewal in the area of FR domain listed in your account and comes on 3 days earlier than the date of its registration. For example, if the domain was registered on May 14, then your account will show the date of completion of registration of the domain on May 11 and need to renew it every subsequent year no later than May 11. This situation is connected with the peculiarities of the domain zone FR.

Usually, FR domains are renewed in several minutes upon payment.
Maximal renewal term for this domain zone is 1 business day.

ATTENTION! Activation of FR domain after expiration of its registration term is performed on a paying basis and costs 47.22 EUR (Euro). This sum will be added to your domain name renewal account.
Please, note that renewal of your domain is not always possible, therefore, keep track of your domain registration term to prevent its loss.

Usually, FR domain is renewed in 1-3 business days upon payment.
Maximal renewal term for this domain zone is 7 days.

Domain owner change
For change of ownership of a domain, please contact the support service.

DNS server change
If you entered the correct DNS server in terms of administration of the domain zone FR, changing DNS servers will be made within 30 minutes after application.
Maximal term change of DNS servers for this domain zone is 1 business day.

ATTENTION! Please, note that after changing DNS servers for your domain may take from several hours to two days until the information is updated on all DNS servers on the Internet.

DNS server requirements
Must be at least two DNS servers.
DNS server must be properly configured and contain information about your domain.
IP addresses of DNS servers must be in different subnets, for example 212.109.12.123 and 212.109.3.14 .

There is also still a large number of parameters that are checked by the Administration FR domain zone before changing the DNS servers. To test the setup DNS servers can be on the next page: http://www.afnic.fr/outils/zonecheck/ .