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.FR Domain Registration

The .FR country-specific top-level domain name extension is the most widespread one among speakers of French and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be an excellent choice to connect with tens of millions of World Wide Web users, because a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with sizeable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a lot of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries regularly use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a wonderful means for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level domain was established in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and businesses situated in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. In the present day, a .FR domain can be ordered by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active domains, the dot FR top-level domain extension is among the most widespread country-code domains. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to grab a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go online nearly right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that manages this TLD, has specific prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain have to have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not have any difficulties to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting providers, especially resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a .FR domain name with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS contact details at any time, to create and to edit Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Name Management with gTech

Find out how easy it is to administer .FR domain names with gTech. Our in-house developed Domain Manager, included in our unique Web Hosting Control Panel, is the very best .FR domain name management tool. For example, editing the WHOIS data or updating the DNS settings takes just a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can easily lock & unlock your .FR domain(s) at any time.

And if you've got a web hosting account with gTech, you can seamlessly manage both your domain names and your web sites.