.FR

Dot FR Domain Names

The .FR country-code top-level domain extension is the most popular one amongst French speakers and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be a good choice to connect with tens of millions of WWW users, considering that a dot FR domain is more probable to have better French search engine standings. This doesn’t include only France, but also countries with significant 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 chance for you to get through to them.

The top-level extension was set up in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and corporations located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. These Days, a dot FR domain can be purchased by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active registrations, the .FR extension is among the most widespread country-specific domains. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to register a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online almost immediately. AFNIC, the Registry that handles this TLD, has special terms about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain need to 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 hosting firms, above all 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 – you’ll be able to modify the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to update Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domains with Mountaineer Web Hosting

With Mountaineer Web Hosting, you can take full advantage of our fabulous Domain Manager. Available in our custom-created Web Hosting Control Panel, it allows you to administer all your domains from one single location. You'll be able to effortlessly modify the WHOIS data or to modify the DNS settings of one or of multiple domain names at once. With it, administering your .FR domain(s) will be very easy.

On top of that, if you've got a web hosting account, you will be able to effortlessly manage your domain(s) and website(s) without having to sign in to another Control Panel.