.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The Dot FR country-code domain is the most popular one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain name will be an excellent choice to contact tens of millions of web users, taking into consideration that a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with sizeable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and many of the 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 a perfect way for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level extension was started in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and companies located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be acquired by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2,500,000 active registrations, the dot FR TLD 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 would like to purchase a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online more or less instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that controls this TLD, has specific rules 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 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 update the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Name Management with websitehosting.lat

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