AFNIC

The Association Française pour le Internet en Coopération Nommage ( French, short AFNIC ) is a nonprofit organization based in Montigny -le- Bretonneux. It was founded in December 1997 to take over the administration of country-specific top- level domains.

History

In 1986, the Institute received national de recherche en informatique et en automatique ( INRIA ) the right, the top -level domain. Fr for France to manage. Only in 1996 a directive was published, in fact could be registered under the domains. Finally, the INRIA founded in 1998, AFNIC non-profit organization, the management of the. Fr extension was later passed.

On 25 June 2001, the second top -level domain was re request of the French government. Introduced under the administration of AFNIC. The award criteria are identical to those of. Fr. Since 2004, basically anyone the right to register any domain names - previously had to prove their claims still interested, for example in the form of a registered trademark. However, a physical presence in France or in Réunion was still necessary. Since 2006 not only legal, but also natural persons can order a. Fr domain.

In 2007, the AFNIC published the first Domain Name Industry Report, the information re - domains and are on their success. Fr and. . It is published every year since then. On 11 January 2008, AFNIC has reached the mark of one million registered domains for. Fr. In 2011, two million registrations available.

Starting with 3 July 2012 supports the AFNIC all ccTLDs that are in their management, the use of special characters as so-called internationalized domain names. As part of the introduction of new top -level domains, the city Paris paris applying for together with the AFNIC or CORE. .

Criticism

In 2004, the organization was criticized as over 4,000 domains registrar EuroDNS were locked. Issue was at that time that EuroDNS enabled with the help of a trustee also foreigners to register. Fr domains. This approach looked at the AFNIC a violation of the official award criteria. Finally landed the dispute over the blocked domains in court.