.FR

.FR Domains

The .FR country-specific top-level domain is the most widespread one amongst speakers of French and if you possess a website in French, such a domain name will be an ideal choice to connect with tens of millions of web users, given 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 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 email providers and search online for French websites, so this is a great means for you to reach them.

The domain extension was established in 1986, but registrations were restricted to persons and entities 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 over 2.5 million active registrations, the dot FR top-level domain extension is amongst the most popular country-specific extensions. And this number has increased with a whole million over the past several years.

If you wish to buy a .FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will go online more or less instantly. AFNIC, the Registry that controls this TLD, has specific requirements about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain must 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 providers, 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 interface – you’ll be able to change the WHOIS contact details at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Names with Octopus Hosting

Included by default with every newly-registered domain name, Octopus Hosting's fully featured, still very user-friendly Domain Manager is, frankly, the best possible place through which it is possible to take care of various .FR domain names and also their DNS and WHOIS options. You'll be able to park limitless domains, set up URL redirections and a lot more.

And as the Domain Manager is an element of our Web Hosting Control Panel, it is possible to take care of your domains plus your sites at the same time, in case you have a hosting account with Octopus Hosting.