.fr

.fr

Introduced	1986
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	AFNIC
Sponsor	AFNIC
Intended use	Entities connected with  France
Actual use	Very popular in France
Registration restrictions	French presence is required and administrative contact address must be in France; some other restrictions on some of the specific subdomains
Structure	Registrations are taken at the second level or at the third level beneath various second-level subdomains
Documents	Registration Agreement
Dispute policies	Alternative Dispute Resolutions
Website	AFNIC

.fr is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. Along with .re and .tf, it is administered by AFNIC.

The .fr top-level domain is divided into a number of second-level domains:

• tm.fr - for owners of trademarks
• asso.fr - for associations
• nom.fr - for surnames
• prd.fr - for research and development programs
• presse.fr - for press publications
• com.fr - open to all applicants without justification of the requested name
• gouv.fr - for the French administration

AFNIC reserves the right to introduce additional sector-based second-level domains. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars.

Under Attack

When the French resumed Nuclear Tests in the Pacific Ocean in 1995 New Zealand and Australian IRC users saw .fr users as fair game for verbal attacks about "what they were allowing their government to do in the Pacific Ocean". Several IRC Channels with French names were over taken and in at least one case a French IRC server was crashed.

See also

Other ccTLDs under French administration:

• .bl - Saint Barthélemy
• .gf - French Guiana
• .gp - Guadeloupe
• .mf - Saint Martin
• .mq - Martinique
• .nc - New Caledonia
• .pf - French Polynesia
• .pm - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
• .re - Réunion
• .tf - French Southern and Antarctic Lands
• .wf - Wallis and Futuna
• .yt - Mayotte

External links

• IANA .fr whois information
• AFNIC
• Find a .fr accredited registrar