.FR

Dot FR Domain Names

The .FR country-specific extension is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be an ideal choice to connect with tens of millions of WWW users, having in mind that a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with significant French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a number of countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a wonderful way for you to contact them them.

The TLD was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and entities based in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. At present, a dot FR domain can be reserved by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active registrations, the .FR top-level extension is amongst the most popular country-code extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to buy a dot FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will be working more or less instantly. AFNIC, the Registry organization that handles this TLD, has special prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain should 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 companies, particularly 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 contact details at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with 1st Hosting

With 1st Hosting's custom-developed Domain Manager (part of 1st Hosting's Web Hosting Control Panel), you'll be able to manage all your .FR domains intuitively. You'll be able to easily edit the WHOIS data and the DNS resource records. What's more, you can swiftly lock/unlock a domain and take advantage of our in-depth educational tutorials and professional 24/7 client support.

In case you've also got a web hosting account with 1st Hosting, our cutting-edge Web Hosting Control Panel will allow you to administer both your domains and your websites.