.FR

.FR Domains

The .FR country-code domain is the most widespread one among French speakers and if you possess a website in French, such a domain name will be a perfect choice to contact tens of millions of Internet users, taking into account that a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine positions. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with sizeable French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and lots of the countries in Northern and Central Africa. People from all these countries regularly use French electronic mail providers and search online for French websites, so this is a wonderful means for you to get through to them.

The domain extension was started in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and entities situated in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. Today, a .FR domain can be bought by anybody from the European Union, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2,500,000 active registrations, the dot FR top-level domain name extension is one of the most widely used country-code extensions. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past several years.

If you want to register a .FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will be operational almost instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry organization that manages 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 encounter any problems to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many web hosting companies, above all resellers, don’t offer the full set of records, so you can’t really host a dot FR domain name with them. You will have full control over your domain through our Hepsia Control Panel interface – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to change Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Management with Black Beard Hosting

Using the Domain Manager interface offered by Black Beard Hosting, you will have a very efficient, yet quite user-friendly domain administration solution at your disposal. With instant DNS management settings plus a straightforward URL redirection tool on hand, you can conveniently affect the way your .FR domain behaves anytime. If you have more than one domains - you will be able to control them from the very same location. If you wish to extend your web presence, you can take full advantage of our unlimited domain parking options.