Your domain name, next to your servers
Yearly registration in .fr and .com, DNS zone editable from your client area.
Updated: 3 November 2026
In short
OmegaCloud registers domain names in .fr and .com, from €14.99 to €19.99 per year excluding VAT. Every domain includes an editable DNS zone, a transfer lock and WHOIS privacy where the extension allows it. The domain is sold on its own: hosting plugs into it with a single A record pointing at your server's IP.
The first year's price, and every year after
Both lines side by side, because it is the second one that decides what your domain actually costs you. Prices per year, excluding VAT.
- First year
- €14.99
- Renewal
- €14.99
Same price every following year, with nothing to catch up on.
Search a .frTwo extensions, deliberately: .fr for a French business, .com for a project without borders. If the extension you need is not here, tell us — we will point you in the right direction, including elsewhere.
What is included, and what is not
Both lists together. A page that only itemises what it includes leaves you to discover the gaps at checkout.
Included with every domain
Managed DNS zone
Your domain's A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records are edited from your client area, free of charge and with no limit on changes.
Renewal at the same price
The second year costs what the first one did. No introductory discount to be clawed back at renewal.
Transfer lock
The domain is locked against unsolicited outbound transfer requests — the basic protection against domain hijacking.
Private WHOIS where the extension allows it
Your details are hidden from the public directory on extensions that permit privacy. On .fr, Afnic already hides private individuals' data by default.
Not included, and worth knowing
Hosting and email
A domain name is not a server. Publishing a site needs hosting: our Linux and Windows VPS plug into it with two DNS records.
Transferring in an existing domain
We register new domains. Bringing in a domain held elsewhere is not offered today: write to us before cancelling with your current registrar.
Restoring an expired domain
Once the grace period has passed, we do not recover an expired domain. Which is exactly why renewal deserves a reminder in your calendar.
.fr or .com?
They are not interchangeable, and one of the two comes with an eligibility requirement.
For a business in France
The French extension, run by Afnic. It immediately signals a French business, which reassures local visitors and works in your favour on searches made from France. Registration carries one condition: being domiciled in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. A private individual's details are not published in the WHOIS — Afnic hides them by default; a company's are, as the law requires.
Who for
Shops, tradespeople, independent professionals, SMEs, local authorities and French associations.
For a project without borders
The best-known extension in the world, with no eligibility requirement: open to anyone, anywhere. It is the one visitors type when guessing an address, and the one an international market expects. Because the registry publishes the holder's details, WHOIS privacy is included in our offer.
Who for
Brands, software companies, English-language projects, shops selling outside France.
Pointing the domain at your server
A domain name does nothing on its own: it designates a server. Here are the records to create in the DNS zone, and what each one is for.
Maps your domain to your server's IPv4 address. This is the record that makes your domain answer. The value is the dedicated IP shown in your VPS panel.
example.com → 203.0.113.10
The same role as the A record, for visitors arriving over IPv6. Every OmegaCloud VPS has an IPv6 address, so it is worth declaring.
example.com → 2001:db8::10
Points a subdomain at another name rather than an IP. Handy for “www” and for external services that ask you to validate a subdomain.
www.example.com → example.com
Designates the server that receives your email. Without an MX record, an address on your domain receives nothing, even if the website works. The value comes from your mail provider.
example.com → mail.myprovider.com (priority 10)
Carries SPF, DKIM and DMARC, which stop a third party sending messages that look like yours. A TXT record is also how most services make you prove the domain is yours.
v=spf1 include:myprovider.com -all
The IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to put in the A and AAAA records are in your server's panel. The full walkthrough, propagation and verification included, is in our dedicated tutorial (in French). If you do not have a server yet, our Linux VPS and Windows VPS deploy in under 60 seconds.
The life of a domain name
A domain is leased, not bought. Knowing what happens at expiry avoids the most common unpleasant surprise in this business.
Registration
You reserve the name for a year. It is yours: you are the registered holder, not us. The domain becomes reachable on the internet within minutes, once the delegation propagates.
Renewal
Every year, at the first year's price. Renewal is what keeps the name: a domain is never acquired permanently, and no registrar anywhere sells a name “for life”.
Grace period
If the expiry date passes, the domain stops answering but stays recoverable for a while, at the normal renewal price. The website and email are already down: this is a safety margin, not a comfortable deadline.
Release
After the grace period the name returns to the registry and anyone can register it. We do not offer a restoration service at that stage: renewal is the only protection.
What you gain by keeping them together
We are not the cheapest registrar on the market and we do not claim to be. Here is what the price actually buys.
The domain next to the server
One invoice, one client area, one point of contact for the name and for the machine that serves it. No back and forth between two providers on the day the DNS has to change.
The same support as your servers
A DNS question is handled by the team that runs your VPS, in English or French, with an average response time under one hour. No customer service siloed by product.
A price that does not move at renewal
The price shown is the first year's and every year after. At checkout you already know what the domain will cost you in three years.
No booby-trapped checkout
No pre-ticked options, no side services slipped into the basket. The domain, its DNS zone and its transfer lock: that is all that is billed.
What to know before you register
Your questions about domain names
It is the address of your online presence, such as example.com. Technically it is an entry in the global DNS directory that translates that readable name into a server's IP address. You do not buy it outright: you obtain exclusive use of it, renewable yearly, from a registrar accredited by the extension's registry.
Two today: .fr and .com. That is a deliberately short catalogue, not a catalogue under construction: these are the two extensions that cover most of what a French business needs. If the extension you need is not on the list, write to us and we will tell you honestly whether you should go through a specialist registrar.
No. The renewal price is identical to the registration price on both extensions. This is worth checking everywhere: the common practice in this market is to advertise a first year at a loss-leader price, sometimes one euro, then renew at several times that amount. Always compare both lines, not just the first.
Afnic, which runs .fr, restricts the extension to individuals and organisations domiciled in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. An address in one of those countries is enough: you need not be a company, nor French. The .com imposes no condition at all.
It depends on the extension and on your status. On .com, WHOIS privacy is included in our offer and hides your details. On .fr, Afnic does not publish a private individual holder's personal data: the protection is native and free. The details of a company holding a .fr are public, however — that is the registry's rule and no option changes it.
No. The domain is sold on its own, with its DNS zone. For an address to show a website there has to be a server behind it: our Linux and Windows VPS connect to the domain through an A record pointing at the server's IP. Email is not included either; it needs a mail service and an MX record.
With an A record pointing at your VPS's IPv4 address, shown in the panel, and an AAAA record for its IPv6 address. Add a CNAME for the “www” subdomain so both forms of the address answer. The DNS zone is edited from your client area, and the change usually propagates within minutes.
Not today: we register new domains, and inbound transfer is not offered. So do not cancel with your current registrar expecting to bring the name here. Write to us before taking any step and we will look at your case.
The domain stops answering first: the website and email go down on the expiry date. It stays recoverable during the grace period, at the normal renewal price. After that the name returns to the registry and anyone can register it; we do not offer a restoration service. Renewal is the only protection, so put it in your calendar.
Registration runs yearly and is renewable. That is the standard term on both our extensions. No registry allows a permanent deposit: the “domain for life” offers you come across are renewed subscriptions, not perpetual ownership.
You do. You are recorded as the holder with the registry, and we act only as the registering intermediary. This is worth checking every time a contractor registers a domain on your behalf: if they register themselves as the holder instead of you, they hold your address, not you.
Is the name available?
Type it in — the check happens in your client area. No account needed to search.