.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The .FR country-specific top-level domain name extension is the most widely used one amongst French speakers and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be a perfect choice to get in touch with tens of millions of Internet users, as a .FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with large French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and quite a few 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 a perfect chance for you to get in touch with them them.

The domain name extension was started in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and companies based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. At present, a dot FR domain can be bought by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2,500,000 active domains, the dot FR top-level domain extension is amongst the most widely used country-specific extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past several years.

If you wish to acquire a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be working almost right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that handles this TLD, has special rules about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain must have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not encounter any problems to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many hosting firms, especially 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 tool – you’ll be able to modify the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domains with Hostcentrix

With Hostcentrix, you can take advantage of our exceptional Domain Manager. Integrated into our in-house developed Web Hosting Control Panel, it allows you to manage all your domains from a single location. You will be able to effortlessly change the WHOIS details or to modify the DNS settings of one or of multiple domain names simultaneously. With it, managing your .FR domain(s) will be very easy.

In addition, if you've got a web hosting account, you will be able to easily administer your domain name(s) and site(s) without the need to sign in to a different Control Panel.