.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-code top-level extension is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain will be a good choice to contact tens of millions of net users, as a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with significant French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a number of 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 an excellent chance for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level domain extension was created in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and corporations located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. These Days, a dot FR domain can be secured by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2.5 million working domains, the .FR domain name extension is among the most widely used country-specific domains. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

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

Dot FR Domain Names with Host Gate

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