.FR

.FR Domain Registration

The .FR country-specific top-level domain extension is the most widely used one among speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain name will be an ideal choice to reach tens of millions of World Wide Web users, given the fact that a dot FR domain is more likely to have higher French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with significant French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries often use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is an ideal chance for you to get through to them.

The top-level extension was set up in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and corporations located in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. At present, a .FR domain can be obtained by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over two and a half million active registrations, the .FR TLD is among the most widespread country-specific domains. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to secure a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational more or less instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that handles 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 have any difficulties to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web 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 contact info at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domains with AzureVantage

If you want to have complete control of a variety of .FR domains, yet, you do not want to use complicated domain name administration user interfaces or different Control Panels, we have the answer for you. With AzureVantage's Domain Manager, you will have total control of your .FR domain names and you'll be able to manage your other domain names too, all from the exact same location. It's possible to quickly modify your domain names' DNS records, to effortlessly assign URL forwarding, to park an unlimited number of domains and much more.

If you also have a hosting account with AzureVantage, it is possible to comfortably control both your web sites along with your domains from the very same Control Panel.