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.FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain is the most widespread one among French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain name will be a perfect choice to get in touch with tens of millions of World Wide Web users, having in mind that a .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 a number of 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 a perfect way for you to get in touch with them them.

The domain extension was launched in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and entities located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Nowadays, a .FR domain can be purchased by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million working domains, the dot FR TLD is amongst the most widespread country-code domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to obtain a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go live more or less right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that manages this TLD, has special terms about certain records that the name servers of a .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 firms, above all 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 details at any time, to create and to alter Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Names with JDT Media Network

And if you choose to open a hosting account with JDT Media Network, the custom Web Hosting Control Panel will allow you to control both your domain name(s) plus your website(s) effortlessly from one and the same place.