.FR

Dot FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain extension is the most popular one among speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain name will be a top choice to contact tens of millions of Internet users, taking into consideration that a dot FR domain is more likely to have higher French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with substantial 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 electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is an excellent chance for you to get in touch with them them.

The top-level domain extension was established in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and corporations based in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. At present, a dot FR domain can be ordered by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than two and a half million working domains, the dot FR TLD is among the most widely used country-code domains. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you want to buy a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational more or less immediately. AFNIC, the Registry organization that handles this TLD, has special terms about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain should 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 hosting firms, especially 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 tool – you’ll be able to update the WHOIS information at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Names with Encor Hosting

Encor Hosting's Web Hosting Control Panel, and in particular - our custom-made Domain Manager, conveniently located inside it, will assist you to have full control of your .FR domain names as well as their DNS options, WHOIS data, etcetera. What's even more, you can lock a domain with a couple of mouse-clicks so as to prevent any unwanted transfer attempts and unlock it just as easily - in case you'd like to transfer it away from us. Whenever you are unsure how to complete a task, you are able to take a look at our considerable library of help articles. Plus, an experienced tech support team will be at your disposal 24/7. Take the control over all your .FR domain names to a completely new stage!