.FR

.FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain extension is the most popular one amongst French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be a wonderful choice to get through to tens of millions of web users, having in mind the fact that a .FR domain is more likely to have higher 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 electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is an excellent way for you to get in touch with them them.

The domain name extension was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and businesses situated in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be obtained by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2,500,000 active domains, the dot FR extension is one of the most widespread country-specific extensions. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to grab a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational almost instantly. AFNIC, the Registry that handles this TLD, has specific restrictions 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 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 update the WHOIS contact details at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Name Management with GreenwellsOnline

GreenwellsOnline offers top-drawer domain name administration solutions. With the Domain Manager built into our simple-to-use Web Hosting Control Panel, you will be able to easily manage your .FR domain name(s), along with any other domain that you might have. You will be able to swiftly modify the WHOIS data, to change the DNS records, to lock/unlock your domain name, etc. We offer elaborate instructional tutorials and 24-7-365 tech support, if you need any help.