.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The .FR country-specific extension is the most popular one amongst French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be an excellent choice to get through to tens of millions of net users, since a dot FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also states 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 often use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great way for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level domain was set up in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and corporations based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Today, a .FR domain can be acquired by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over two and a half million active domains, the .FR top-level extension is amongst the most widespread country-code domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you wish to obtain a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be working nearly instantly. AFNIC, the Registry that handles this TLD, has specific conditions about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain need to have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not come across any problems to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting firms, especially 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 tool – you’ll be able to alter the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domains with Duty Free Hosting

With the DNS record and URL redirection management options offered by Duty Free Hosting's Domain Manager, it will be easy to completely control the behavior of your .FR domains. That's right, you'll be able to control various domain names from the exact same place as well as to park as many domain names as you need - if you wish to widen your online presence. The latter is going to be an uncomplicated task with our very efficient, yet amazingly easy to use domain management tool.