Introduced 1986 Registry AFNIC | Status Active Sponsor AFNIC | |
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Intended use Entities connected with France | ||
.fr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. It is administered by AFNIC.
The rules for registering French domains changed on December 6, 2011, and the registrant of a French domain need no longer be based in France. Any European individual, company or organization can register a .fr domain, or any of the others managed by AFNIC:
From December 6, 2011, new domain names were no longer available for registration in the official com.fr subdomain, nor in asso.fr or tm.fr. Existing registrations in these subdomains can continue to be renewed.
Registrations .re processed via accredited registrars.(see link below).
References
.fr Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA