.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-code top-level extension is the most widespread one among French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be a top choice to contact tens of millions of net users, because a .FR domain is more probable to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states 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 often 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 domain name extension was launched in 1986, but registrations were limited to individuals and businesses situated in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. At present, a .FR domain can be purchased by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2.5 million functioning domains, the dot FR domain name extension is amongst the most popular country-code domains. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past several years.

If you would like to obtain a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational almost right away. AFNIC, the Registry that controls this TLD, has specific conditions about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain must 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, particularly resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a .FR domain with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel interface – you’ll be able to alter the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Got Link Hosting

Find out how easy it is to manage .FR domains with Got Link Hosting. Our tailor-made Domain Manager, built into our custom Web Hosting Control Panel, is the very best .FR domain administration tool. For instance, changing the WHOIS data or modifying the DNS resource records requires just a few mouse clicks and you can swiftly lock & unlock your .FR domain(s) whenever you need to.

And in case you have a web hosting account with Got Link Hosting, you can easily manage both your domain names and your web sites.