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Dot FR Domain Names

The Dot FR country-specific top-level domain is the most widespread one amongst speakers of French and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be a great choice to get in touch with tens of millions of World Wide Web users, as a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with considerable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries usually use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great chance for you to reach them.

The domain name extension was established in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and companies based in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Today, a dot FR domain can be reserved by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2,500,000 working domains, the dot FR top-level domain name extension is among the most widely used country-code extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to buy a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go live almost right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that administrates this TLD, has precise restrictions about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain need 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 hosting firms, in particular 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 – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS contact information at any time, to create and to edit Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Akaditi

And if you decide to start a hosting account with Akaditi, our custom Web Hosting Control Panel will let you manage both your domain name(s) and your site(s) effortlessly from one and the same place.