.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-specific extension is the most widespread one amongst French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be an ideal choice to connect with tens of millions of web users, taking into consideration that a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with large French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and many 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 TLD was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and companies based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be reserved by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2.5 million functioning domains, the .FR top-level domain extension is one of the most widely used country-code extensions. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past several years.

If you would like to secure a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will be operational almost instantly. AFNIC, the Registry that administrates this TLD, has special prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain should have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not encounter any problems to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting companies, especially 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 interface – you’ll be able to alter the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to edit Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Management with Rtt2

Find out how easy it is to manage .FR domains with Rtt2. Our in-house created Domain Manager, available in our custom Web Hosting Control Panel, is the best .FR domain management tool. For example, editing the WHOIS info or updating the DNS settings requires just a few mouse clicks and you can effortlessly lock 'n' unlock your .FR domain name(s) whenever you need to.

And in case you have a web hosting account with Rtt2, you can seamlessly manage both your domain names and your sites.