.FR

.FR Domain Names

The .FR country-specific top-level domain name extension is the most widely used one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain will be an excellent choice to connect with tens of millions of World Wide Web users, taking into account that a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with substantial French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries often use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is an ideal means for you to get through to them.

The TLD was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and firms situated in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Today, a .FR domain can be bought by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million active registrations, the dot FR domain extension is amongst the most widely used country-code extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past several years.

If you would like to obtain a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go online nearly right away. AFNIC, the Registry that administrates this TLD, has special prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain need to have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not encounter any difficulties to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting companies, particularly 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 contact info at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Name Management with SecureShells

With SecureShells's easy-to-use Domain Manager, it's possible to effortlessly manage your .FR domain names at the same time, irrespective of their count. With just a mouse-click, you'll be able to alter the DNS records, edit the WHOIS details, etc. Frankly, controlling a .FR domain is effortless with all the abovementioned options at hand.

Those who in addition have a hosting account with SecureShells will be able to at the same time control both your domain names and your websites with our easy to use Web Hosting Control Panel.