.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain name extension is the most popular one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain name will be a wonderful choice to contact tens of millions of WWW users, having in mind the fact that a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries 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 frequently use French email providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great chance for you to contact them them.

The top-level extension was created in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and entities situated in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. At present, a dot FR domain can be booked by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million functioning domains, the .FR top-level domain extension is among the most widely used country-code extensions. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you would like to secure a dot FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go live nearly right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that controls this TLD, has precise prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain have 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, mainly 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 tool – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with SwissHosts.com

SwissHosts.com's Web Hosting Control Panel, and in particular - our custom-built Domain Manager, handily located inside it, will help you to exert complete control over your .FR domain names along with their DNS options, WHOIS details, etcetera. What's more, it is possible to lock a domain with several clicks so as to stop all unauthorized transfer attempts and unlock it just as quickly - if you decide to transfer it away from us. Whenever you are not sure how you can do a particular task, you can take a look at our considerable selection of help articles. Plus, a competent technical support team will be available 24/7. Take the management of your .FR domains to an entirely new stage!