Answers to Your Questions

How long before the domain is registered and activated?

After you have requested and paid for a domain name, your domain is registered by Gandi as quickly as possible (normally this occurs in a few minutes, except for a .FR domain name). As soon as you receive our order confirmation by e-mail, the domain name belongs to you, and is no longer available for anyone. Then you can manage the domain via your "Domains" page.

Our database is updated immediately, and the registry's one is normally updated within a few minutes (except .FR). That's why sometimes you may not see immediately your domain name in the Whois database.

Technically, your domain may take about half a day to become available worldwide. This is the delay required for the technical information to be distributed throughout the internet. During this time, your website will not be accessible from this domain name.

This delay pertains to DNS propagation, and does not depend on Gandi, but rather, on the entire network of servers that make up the internet.

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