.FR

Dot FR Domain Names

The .FR country-specific domain extension is the most popular one among speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain name will be a good choice to contact tens of millions of World Wide Web users, because a dot FR domain is more likely to have better French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with large 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 email providers and search online for French websites, so this is an ideal means for you to get in touch with them them.

The TLD was started in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and corporations situated in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. These Days, a .FR domain can be acquired by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2.5 million working domains, the dot FR domain name extension is amongst the most popular country-code extensions. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you want to secure a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online nearly instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry organization that controls this TLD, has specific prerequisites 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 providers, in particular 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 interface – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Name Management with Geneva Web Hosting Services

With Geneva Web Hosting Services, you can administer your .FR domain(s) without effort using our astonishing Domain Manager. Built into our intuitive Web Hosting Control Panel, it allows you to easily administer one or multiple .FR domains. You will be able to change the DNS settings or the WHOIS info with several mouse clicks. Extensive instructional tutorials and a 24x7 technical support service are included too.