Registrant must have a Danish patent or trademark from any country as long as the trademark doesn't infringe on any Danish brand name or company in the Faroe Islands

.fo is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Faroe Islands. Any domain name should correspond to a trademark of the registrant (Type A application). It is however allowed to register a domain name without owning a matching trademark (Type B application) but any entity that owns such a trademark can fill an opposition within 20 days after the domain registration and get the concerned domain name for itself.

Group A
- The brand name, trademark or service mark of the applicant by the Danish Patent and Trademark Office;
The name of the applicant by the Faroese Business Registration Office, the Faroe Islands Customs and Tax Authorities Business Registry or the Faroese Ship Registry maintained by the Maritime Affairs Administration;

- The personal name of the applicant by the National Resident Register in such manner as both forename(s) and last name are written out or in such a manner that either the forename or the last name is abbreviated. The applicant may register as well his or her birth date using either numbers, letters or a combination of both.

Group B
1 - Applications for Group B Domain Names do not require warranting documentation. Group B Domain Names shall be placed on a waiting list and shall be maintained on the list for a period of twenty work days from the date the domain name is publicly announced pursuant.

2 - The Group B Domain Name Waiting List shall be available to the public during the waiting period
via the NIC.FO website, www.nic.fo, and announced in the Faroese newspapers.

- 3. During the waiting time, other applicants may submit an application for a domain name on the waiting list if the applicant can demonstrate that the name was registered pursuant to § 4 before

The domain name was placed on the waiting list. In the event that several applicants send in applications for a domain name on the waiting list during the waiting period and each has a valid right to be allocated the domain name, the FO Council shall arrange for a drawing between the applicants.

- 4. Individuals may register either their forename(s) or last name as a Group B Domain Name. In the event that several individuals subsequently submit applications for the same Group B domain name as an earlier applicant during the waiting period assigned to the earlier applicant and they all have a legitimate right to be allocated the domain name, the FO Council shall arrange for a drawing among all the submitted applications.

- 5. If no one else submits an application for a Group B domain name that is registered on the waiting list during the waiting period pursuant to paragraphs 3 or 4, the applicant shall be granted the right to use the domain name.

- 6. The applicant for an additional fee (see the chart under § 13) may receive temporary permission during the waiting period to use a domain name listed on the waiting list. In the event that no one else has submitted an application for the domain name on the waiting list pursuant to paragraph 3 for which temporary permission had been granted, the first applicant shall be granted the right to use the domain name.

Foreign Brand Names, Trademarks, Service Marks
Natural persons or legal entities that are not registered in the Faroe Islands may only register brand names, trademarks or service marks that are registered with the Danish Patent and Trademark Office.