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Dot FR Domain Registration

The Dot FR country-specific top-level domain extension is the most widely used one among speakers of French and if you have a website in French, such a domain name will be a great choice to get in touch with tens of millions of web 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 lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries frequently use French email providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great means for you to contact them them.

The top-level extension was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and companies located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Nowadays, a dot FR domain can be reserved by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million working domains, the .FR domain name extension is one of the most widespread country-specific extensions. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you want to reserve a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational almost instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry organization that manages this TLD, has special rules about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain need to have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not have any problems 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 tool – you’ll be able to modify the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Name Management with WebToid

Included by default with each newly-registered domain, WebToid's fully featured, still straightforward Domain Manager is, actually, the most effective place through which you'll be able to manage multiple .FR domain names as well as their DNS and WHOIS options. You can park limitless domains, create URL redirections and more.

And given that the Domain Manager is part of our Web Hosting Control Panel, you are able to take care of your domains and also your sites at once, just in case you in addition have a hosting account with WebToid.