Afnic has announced new registration policies for the .fr (France), .re (Reunion Island), .yt (Mayotte), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), .tf (French Southern Territories) and .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon). ccTLDs that come into force on 8 December.

The main changes in the registration policy are:

• registration of .fr domain names consisting of one or two character(s) is allowed from 8 December, starting with a Sunrise period running until 9 February followed by a Landrush (16 February to 16 March) and then general availability from 17 March
• creation of a registry lock option for all the ccTLDs that prevents unauthorised changes to Whois information.

To find out more, see:

• Naming Policy in force as of December 8, 2014 (PDF).
• Naming Policy currently in force.
• Registration Policies for domain names with 1 or 2 characters.