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.FR Domain Names

The .FR country-code top-level domain name extension is the most widespread one among speakers of French and if you own a website in French, such a domain will be an ideal choice to reach tens of millions of World Wide Web users, as a dot FR domain is more likely to have higher French search engine rankings. This doesn’t include only France, but also states with large French-speaking communities, such as Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and a lot 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 an excellent means for you to get in touch with them them.

The domain extension was set up in 1986, but registrations were limited to persons and corporations based in France until 2011 when the process was loosened. In the present day, a dot FR domain can be reserved by anybody from the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. With more than 2.5 million active registrations, the .FR top-level extension is amongst the most widespread country-code extensions. And this number has risen with a whole million over the past couple of years.

If you wish to book a dot FR domain, you can do it through our firm and it will go online more or less instantaneously. AFNIC, the Registry that handles this TLD, has special prerequisites about certain records that the name servers of a .FR domain must 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 web hosting firms, mainly 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 tool – you’ll be able to modify the WHOIS info at any time, to create and to modify Custom DNS records, to park domains, etc.

.FR Domain Names with Newage Hosting Service

To have full control of a variety of .FR domains, however, you don't want to use complicated domain management user interfaces or multiple Control Panels, we've got the answer for you. With Newage Hosting Service's Domain Manager, you will get full control of your .FR domain names and you will be in a position to control your other domain names as well, all from the very same location. You can also easily update your domain names' DNS records, to quickly set up URL forwarding, to park unlimited domain names and much more.

For those who have a hosting account with Newage Hosting Service, you will be able to conveniently manage both your web sites as well as your domains from the same Control Panel.