.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The Dot FR country-code extension is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain will be a top choice to reach tens of millions of Internet users, due to the fact that a .FR domain is more likely to have higher French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with sizeable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries regularly use French email providers and search online for French websites, so this is an excellent means for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level extension was established in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and firms based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be acquired by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2,500,000 active domains, the .FR top-level domain extension is one of the most widespread country-specific domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you would like to purchase a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go live more or less instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that handles this TLD, has special requirements 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 hosting companies, 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 interface – you’ll be able to alter the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domains with Urban Hosting

If you are searching for a new home for your .FR domains, the Domain Manager interface that we offer is the best option. Being both intuitive and fully featured, it enables you to exert total control of all domain name management aspects. You can edit all essential DNS settings with just a click and edit the WHOIS information related to any of your domain names comfortably. For those who have several domain names, managing them from the same location isn't just doable, it's in fact very easy.

Additionally, for those who have a hosting account here, then you are already aware of the fact that, besides the Domain Manager itself, our Web Hosting Control Panel features a website management section as well. In this way, it is possible to quickly move between the two, without the need to make use of numerous Control Panels or to adjust to new interfaces.