.FR

.FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain extension is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be a wonderful choice to contact tens of millions of net users, because a dot FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with substantial French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a lot 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 TLD was set up in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and businesses situated in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. These Days, a .FR domain can be obtained by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million active domains, the .FR domain name extension is among the most widespread country-specific domains. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to obtain a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational almost instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that manages this TLD, has special requirements 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 companies, 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 – you’ll be able to alter the WHOIS details at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Management with Genius Web Hosting

Control various .FR domains with no effort. Get total control over their WHOIS details and DNS records. Assign URL forwarding with just a click. Park limitless domain names. You can accomplish all of that and much more with the help of Genius Web Hosting's user-friendly Domain Manager tool, that offers all the attributes which you might need so that you can control your domains efficiently.

In addition to that, you can control your websites as well as your domains the very same place, since the Domain Manager is an essential feature of the Web Hosting Control Panel.