.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-code domain is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain will be a wonderful choice to get in touch with tens of millions of web users, because a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with sizeable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a number of countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries usually use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is an excellent way for you to contact them them.

The domain name extension was started in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and businesses situated in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be ordered by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active domains, the .FR top-level extension is among the most popular country-code domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to order a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational nearly instantly. AFNIC, the Registry organization that administrates this TLD, has special prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain have to 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 companies, 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 update the WHOIS details at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Namelisk

Thanks to the DNS record and also URL redirection management options offered by Namelisk's Domain Manager, you will be able to fully handle the behavior of all your .FR domain names. That's right, you can control multiple domain names from the very same place and to park as many domains as you wish - should you would like to expand your online presence. This will be a straightforward task with our extremely powerful, yet amazingly convenient to use domain management tool.