.FR

.FR Domain Names

The .FR country-code top-level extension is the most widespread one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain will be an excellent choice to reach tens of millions of WWW users, given that a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with significant French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and many 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 a perfect way for you to get in touch with them them.

The TLD was set up in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and firms based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Nowadays, a .FR domain can be acquired by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over two and a half million active domains, the dot FR TLD is one of the most popular country-code domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to buy a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will be operational almost right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that controls this TLD, has precise conditions about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain should 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, in particular 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 – you’ll be able to update the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Names with webworldhosting

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