.sarl Domain
The French Business Structure Domain
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What is a .sarl domain?
The .sarl domain corresponds to "Societe a Responsabilite Limitee", the French equivalent of a UK limited company. French businesses, Luxembourg SARLs, and francophone African companies all trade under this legal structure. A .sarl domain matches their official company registration and carries formal weight with French-speaking clients and regulators.
Who should register .sarl?
French limited companies, Luxembourg SARLs, francophone African businesses, and French-speaking corporate entities.
Why choose .sarl?
- Matches French company naming conventions
- Formal weight with French regulators
- Covers France, Luxembourg, and Africa
- Professional for francophone markets
Who runs .sarl, and since when
Registry data from the .sarl delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- Binky Moon, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 31 July 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; you do not have to be a registered SARL to hold one
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £29.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .sarl is open while .srl is restricted
Here is the thing almost nobody expects. Two extensions name almost the same legal form, and one of them checks and the other does not. .srl is restricted: its registry, InterNetX, allows only companies registered as an SRL by a governmental body to hold one. .sarl has no such rule. Its ICANN agreement is a standard non-sponsored one with no community specification, and Identity Digital, which operates it, publishes an organisational-status form for .ltd but nothing equivalent for this string.
So a UK sole trader with no French company at all can register one, which tells you something important: a .sarl address does not evidence a Societe a Responsabilite Limitee to anybody who knows the difference. It looks the part, and looking the part is not the same as being verified.
Where it works is a real French, Belgian, Luxembourgish or francophone African SARL whose name is gone on .fr, and who wants an address that matches the entity on the invoice. Where it does not is a UK business hoping the ending will imply a continental presence it does not have.
Is .sarl the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.sarl works well if
- You are a real SARL in France, Belgium, Luxembourg or francophone Africa, and the name you want has gone on .fr.
- Your legal name already ends in SARL, so the extension completes it and you avoid a repetitive or hyphenated address.
- You want the corporate-form variant registered defensively alongside the .fr or .com you already run.
Look elsewhere if
- Your customers are French. They expect a .fr, they type a .fr, and Google reads .fr as a French site in a way this cannot.
- You want the ending to prove your legal status. It proves nothing: there is no eligibility check, so anyone can hold one.
- You are UK-based with no French entity. An address implying a company form you do not have is a poor look if anyone checks.
If the customers are French, the .fr does more for local search and matches what people expect to type. See .fr pricing.
.sarl vs .srl: which should you register?
These two are the closest pair in this batch and they behave in opposite ways. Both point at a limited liability company form, .sarl in the French-speaking world and .srl in Italy, Romania and much of Latin America. The difference is that .srl is gated and .sarl is not. InterNetX only allows registrants that are registered as an SRL by a governmental body, and reserves the right to cancel or lock a name if that stops being true. Identity Digital asks nothing of a .sarl registrant.
That flips the usual logic. If you want an address that means something to a sceptical reader, the restricted one carries more weight, because the restriction is what makes it a signal rather than a style. If you want speed and no paperwork, .sarl is the easier purchase. Just do not sell it internally as proof of anything, because it is not.
.sarl domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .sarl domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Its ICANN registry agreement is a standard non-sponsored one with no community specification attached, and the registry operator publishes no organisational-status requirement for it, unlike its .ltd extension. Anyone anywhere can register one. That makes it quick to buy, and it also means the ending on its own is not evidence of your legal form. If proving corporate status is the goal, the company registration details on your site do that job and the domain does not.
A .fr, in almost every case where the customers are French. Google treats country-code extensions as a geographic signal, French customers expect and type .fr, and it is what appears in local directories and on invoices around you. The .sarl earns its place as a second address when the .fr you wanted has gone, or when the legal form is part of how the business is known. Running both, with the .fr as the primary, is the pattern that gives up least.
France is the best known, but the form is used across the French-speaking world, including Luxembourg, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and a number of francophone African states. Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Ivory Coast all use it. That spread is the argument for the extension over a single national ending: a business trading across several francophone markets has no obvious ccTLD to pick, and this one is neutral between them.
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