.FR

Dot FR Domain Registration

The Dot FR country-code Top-Level Domain 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 reach tens of millions of net users, considering the fact that a dot FR domain is more likely 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 a perfect way for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level extension was created in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and entities based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Nowadays, a .FR domain can be bought by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million functioning domains, the .FR domain name extension is among the most popular country-specific extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to order a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online almost instantly. AFNIC, the Registry organization that administrates this TLD, has specific terms about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain have 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 providers, mainly resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a dot FR domain with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel interface – you’ll be able to edit the WHOIS contact details at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Rai Hosting

Coming as standard with each newly-registered domain, Rai Hosting's fully featured, still very easy to use Domain Manager is, actually, the most effective place where you are able to manage many .FR domain names and also their DNS and WHOIS controls. It is possible to park limitless domains, set up URL redirections and much more.

And as the Domain Manager is a component of our Web Hosting Control Panel, it is possible to manage your domains AND your websites at once, just in case you in addition have a hosting account with Rai Hosting.