.FR

.FR Domain Names

The Dot FR country-code extension is the most widely used one among French speakers and if you possess a website in French, such a domain name will be a good choice to reach tens of millions of net users, considering the fact that a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with considerable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and numerous countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French email providers and search online for French websites, so this is an excellent means for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level domain was set up in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and entities based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. At present, a dot FR domain can be secured by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million functioning domains, the dot FR extension is one of the most popular country-code extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you want to reserve a dot FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go online nearly instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that controls this TLD, has specific terms about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain must have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not encounter any difficulties to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many hosting providers, above all resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a .FR domain with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel interface – you’ll be able to edit the WHOIS details at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domains with Corporate Hosting Solutions

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