.fr domain name
Type the name of your project, see how it looks in .fr, then check whether it is available. The .fr is the reference extension for speaking to a French audience.
Your name comes to life on the four places where your customers will meet you.
Hello, thank you for your message. The whole My project team will get back to you shortly.
Four reasons backed by figures, each with its source. Not impressions.
Local extensions, those matching the country you target, hold 56% of the top three Google results. And you are 40 times more likely to find the domain name of your dreams, where the .com is often saturated.
Source: searchengineland.com
When you register as an individual, your name, address and phone number never appear in the public Whois database. That is how the .fr behaves by default: nothing to request, nothing to switch on. Your details stay hosted in France.
Source: Afnic communication kit
French people say they trust a .fr three times more than a .com, and 90% trust .fr web addresses. 84% find them more credible than sites carrying other extensions. When people trust you, they leave their details and they order.
Source: MV2 Group survey, December 2024
Four million .fr addresses, with more than 2,000 registered every day, roughly one a minute. The registry is a non-profit association: over 12 million euros in ten years and 600 digital inclusion projects have been funded by .fr revenue.
Source: Afnic communication kit
Afnic's official video.
Video hosted by YouTube and loaded from youtube-nocookie.com.
Three accounts collected by Afnic, from a beauty salon in the Oise to the most read film site in France.
Accounts taken from the Afnic communication kit.
OuiHeberg registers your .fr directly with the registry, with no middleman. Our accreditation is public. See our entry in the official directory
Any adult living in the European Union, and any company or organization with its registered office there. Afnic's naming policy also covers Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
No. Data belonging to individuals is anonymized by default in the Whois database and hosted in France. Nothing to request, nothing to switch on.
No, it is the other way round. The .fr is one of the cheapest extensions on the market, sold on average 30% below the .com.
Registration itself is immediate, the name is yours as soon as the order is confirmed. Then allow a few hours for DNS servers around the world to catch up and for your site to answer everywhere.
Yes. Ask your current registrar for the authorization code, then start the transfer from our client area. As long as you leave your DNS servers alone, your site and your email keep working throughout.
Afnic, the Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération. It is a non-profit body created in 1997 that makes sure your domain name stays reliable, secure and reachable.
In three steps. Pick a name that fits you, check that it is available, then go through a registrar such as OuiHeberg. A short name that is easy to spell will serve you for years.
Yes. Afnic runs four free programs: Réussir en .fr to structure your online presence, Je passe au numérique to get started step by step, Réussir avec le web for a self-assessment in under fifteen minutes, and the Foliweb workshops, with more than 400 workshops and webinars a year.
The official resources of the .fr registry, freely available.
afnic.frThe website of the .fr registry, its figures and its naming policy.
reussir-en.frAfnic's free program to structure your online presence.OuiHeberg is a domain name registrar accredited by Afnic. The arguments, figures and accounts on this page come from Afnic's communication kit. Afnic does not publish this site and is not responsible for it.
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