.FR

Dot FR Domains

The Dot FR country-code top-level domain extension is the most popular one among French speakers and if you have a website in French, such a domain will be a perfect choice to reach tens of millions of web users, as 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 a number of 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 wonderful means for you to get through to them.

The top-level domain extension was launched in 1986, but registrations were restricted to individuals and businesses located in France until 2011 when the process was liberalized. At present, a .FR domain can be purchased by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With over 2,500,000 functioning domains, the .FR top-level domain name extension is amongst the most popular country-specific domains. And this number has expanded with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to get a dot FR domain, you can do it through our company and it will be operational more or less right away. AFNIC, the Registry organization that controls this TLD, has special restrictions about certain records that the name servers of a dot FR domain should have, and we meet these requirements, so you will not come across any difficulties to get your site up and running in a matter of minutes. Many hosting providers, in particular 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 – you’ll be able to update the WHOIS details at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

Dot FR Domain Management with Big Hammer Hosting

Find out how easy it is to manage .FR domains with Big Hammer Hosting. Our in-house built Domain Manager, integrated into our custom Web Hosting Control Panel, is the very best .FR domain management tool. For instance, editing the WHOIS data or updating the DNS resource records takes only a few clicks of the mouse and you can easily lock/unlock your .FR domain name(s) whenever needed.

And if you have a hosting account with Big Hammer Hosting, you can seamlessly administer both your domain names and your web sites.