.FR

Dot FR Domains

The Dot FR country-code domain name extension is the most widespread one amongst French speakers and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be a top choice to get through to tens of millions of Internet users, since a .FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with substantial French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and numerous countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great chance for you to contact them them.

The domain name extension was created in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and entities located in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. These Days, a .FR domain can be purchased by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million active registrations, the dot FR domain name extension is amongst the most widespread country-code extensions. 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 be operational more or less right away. AFNIC, the Registry that administrates this TLD, has specific terms 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 problems 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 name with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel interface – 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 Domain Management with webstore-4u

Featured as standard with each newly-registered domain, webstore-4u's fully featured, yet very convenient to use Domain Manager is, actually, the right place from where you can take care of many .FR domain names and their DNS and WHOIS settings. You can park unlimited domains, set up URL redirections and much more.

And given that the Domain Manager is part of our Web Hosting Control Panel, it is possible to manage your domains and also your sites at the same time, in the event you in addition have a hosting account with webstore-4u.