Headquarters Montigny-le-Bretonneux | Founded 1997 | |
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Type Non-profit organization Profiles | ||
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Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération (AFNIC) is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate a number of French country code top-level domain names such as .fr, .re and .tf. As of today, AFNIC is ruled under the 2007 February 6 decree. AFNIC is currently headquartered in the commune of Montigny-le-Bretonneux in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
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- Members
- Missions
- French country code top level domains ccTLD
- Other top level domains run by AFNIC
- French top level domains not managed by AFNIC
- References
Members
AFNIC includes public and private Internet players: users (legal entities and individuals), domain name registrars (Internet service providers), international entities and public authoritative representatives.
Missions
AFNIC manages a general interest service. Therefore, it is at the crossroads of operators, Internet Service Providers, Internet users, public authorities as well as other national and international parties.
This privileged position and responsibility leads AFNIC to participate in the evolution of Internet governance and management. Thus, AFNIC is largely involved in the international relations chorus.
Through its missions, the international actions of AFNIC .re focused on three main directions:
Over the past few years, the number of international meetings in which the domain name registries .re involved is constantly increasing. This strong international activity demonstrates that domain name registries have a key role to play in the information society globalisation process.