.FR

Dot FR Domains

The Dot FR country-code domain is the most widely used one among French speakers and if you have a website in French, such a domain will be a wonderful choice to get through to tens of millions of Internet users, having in mind the fact that a dot FR domain is more likely to have better French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with large French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French email providers and search online for French websites, so this is an ideal means for you to reach them.

The top-level domain extension was created in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and businesses located in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. At present, a .FR domain can be registered by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2,500,000 functioning domains, the .FR top-level domain extension is among the most widespread country-code domains. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you would like to buy a dot FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will be operational more or less instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that manages this TLD, has special rules about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain must 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 hosting companies, especially resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a dot FR domain name with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel – you’ll be able to edit the WHOIS contact information at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Central Target Hosting

With Central Target Hosting, you can manage your .FR domain(s) with ease using our superb Domain Manager. Part of our intuitive Web Hosting Control Panel, it permits you to effortlessly manage one or multiple .FR domains. You can modify the DNS resource records or the WHOIS information with a couple of mouse clicks. Thorough educational tutorials and a 24/7/365 tech support service are provided too.