The .paris Domain: A City Zone Run by the City Hall
The .paris domain is a city extension whose registry operator is the municipality itself. Its ICANN agreement is dated 30 January 2014, the root zone entry 27 March 2014, and the contract classifies the extension as a community zone. Technical operation sits with Afnic, the operator of France's country code zone. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 22,243 registrations with 18,931 in the zone file.
Shops, restaurants, hotels, galleries, agencies, associations and public projects across the city fill the zone. The connection to Paris is a condition defined in the agreement, and its verification includes human review. Try candidates in .paris domain search and compare a similarly structured city zone on the .nyc page.
The agreement sets out two sets of conditions. The first is a bona fide presence in the Paris area; the second requires that presence and the use of the name to be generally accepted as legitimate, conducive to the welfare of the area, commensurate with the role and importance of the domain, and based on good faith at registration and thereafter. Operationally a registrant must have an administrative contact in the Paris area, and the address is checked partly by postal code automatically and partly through human review. After the launch phase the validation mode moves from pre-validation to post-validation and then to statistically targeted random validation. The declared intended use is part of the review, and a false statement of intended use counts as an indication of bad faith and can ground suspension.
.PARIS Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator City of Paris (Ville de Paris)
- Root zone entry 27 March 2014
- Agreement type Base, Community (Specification 12), Non-Sponsored
- Eligibility Bona fide presence in the Paris area and an administrative contact there
- Zone size 22,243 registrations, 18,931 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .paris domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.paris Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$69.90 /year -
Transfer
$69.99 /year -
Renewal
$76.99 /year -
Restore
$173.96 -
Late Renewal
$15.40
Included With Every .paris Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.paris Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .paris domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .paris address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .paris domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $15.40 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .paris returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.paris Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.paris Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .paris domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.paris Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .paris Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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A bona fide presence in the Paris area. The registry's own information page explains it as living in the area, carrying out personal, commercial or cultural activity there, or demonstrating another direct or indirect tie. No specific document is requested at the moment of registration, although checks may follow afterwards. Try .paris domain search.
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Because verification runs through that record. The agreement requires the registrant to hold an administrative contact in the Paris area, and the address is checked partly automatically through the postal code and partly by human review. The contact may be any person or entity that has accepted the mandate to act in that role, and a registrar is allowed to take it on.
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It forms part of the compliance review. Validation covers not only the address but the actual or intended use of the name. If the purpose you declare does not match reality, that is treated as an indication of bad faith and can ground suspension of the domain. Write the statement against your real plan, and update it when the plan changes.
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Yes, a two-stage appeals process is defined. Administrative measures taken under the enforcement programme go first to a review by the registry itself, and then to a second and final instance; the registry may conduct that second stage or entrust it to an alternative dispute resolution provider. Decisions are therefore not single-tier and final.
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Both are city zones operated by a municipality and both carry a connection requirement, but the legal basis differs. Here the requirement is written into the ICANN agreement itself, whereas in the New York zone it arises from the registry's own nexus policy. Their verification methods diverge as well. Compare on the .nyc page.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 22,243 registrations with 18,931 in the zone file, a share of 85 per cent. The eligibility requirement naturally limits the zone, which keeps it small next to large generic extensions and leaves neighbourhood, district and sector labels obtainable. Check who holds a taken name through whois search.
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