.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The .FR country-specific top-level domain name extension is the most widespread one among speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain name will be a good choice to get through to tens of millions of web users, given the fact that a .FR domain is more likely to have higher French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with large French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great means for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level extension was started in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and corporations based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. In the present day, a .FR domain can be obtained by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active registrations, the .FR top-level domain name extension is amongst the most popular country-code extensions. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you would like to secure a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online nearly instantly. AFNIC, the Registry organization that handles this TLD, has specific conditions about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain must have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not encounter any problems to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting firms, mainly resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a .FR domain name with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS details at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domains with Web-Wizards

Thanks to the DNS record along with URL redirection management options provided by Web-Wizards's Domain Manager, it is possible to fully control the behavior of your .FR domains. That's right, you will be able to control various domain names from the exact same place as well as to park as many domains as you wish - in case you would like to broaden your web presence. The latter will be an uncomplicated project with our very effective, yet surprisingly easy to use domain name management tool.