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Afnic Annual Report Shows 84% Renewal Rate

July 14, 2019 by Michele Neylon

Afnic, the .fr domain name registry, has released their annual report for 2018.The report covers the organisation's activities during 2018, which included hosting the IGF in Paris last November, as well as winning the contract to provide backend registry services to the .museum domain extension.They've also produced a nice simple graphic that highlights some of their … [Read more...] about Afnic Annual Report Shows 84% Renewal Rate

NDD Camp Domain Event in Paris

June 18, 2018 by Michele Neylon

NDD Camp will be held in Paris on this Thursday June 21st. The event is free to attend, but registration is obligatory.The event features 3 parallel tracks with sessions covering a range of topics including:drop catching new TLDs aftermarket SEO online marketing managing domains contentFull details of the event are available on the French … [Read more...] about NDD Camp Domain Event in Paris

Afnic Selects New Board Members

June 21, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Afnic, the .fr domain name registry, held it's General Assembly on June 10th. During the meeting they elected both a new chair to the Afnic board, as well as several new board members. Board members are drawn from a number of eligible groups. The new board members are:Two members for the “Registrars” college: Mr. Eric Lantonnet (NAMEBAY) for a 4-year mandate Mr. Tristan … [Read more...] about Afnic Selects New Board Members

French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

April 15, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Earlier this week French supermarket giant E.Leclerc launched a new site for their sports' goods. The key change? The new site lives at sport.leclerc. Leclerc, which employs over 94 thousand people, is one of the companies that opted to get its own "dotbrand". While some companies have rolled out a variety of different things on their own domain extension it's still rare to see … [Read more...] about French Supermarket Giant LeClerc Turns On DotBrand

French Domain Registry Reacts to Charlie Hebdo #jesuischarlie

January 9, 2015 by Michele Neylon

The French ccTLD registry, AFNIC, has, in common with many other French organisations, come out strong in the aftermath of the attack earlier this week on Charlie Hebdo.Their front page currently displays the current image:and on their English language site they've provided a translated version:But what's a lot more interesting for DNS geeks is that they've … [Read more...] about French Domain Registry Reacts to Charlie Hebdo #jesuischarlie

.Paris Takes Over The Eiffel Tower

June 5, 2014 by Michele Neylon

I mentioned the launch of the .paris pioneers earlier this week.Last night there was apparently a big event in Paris at the Eiffel Tower (Champs de Mars) and there were plenty of photos shared by the brands, companies and people in attendance.But what's really impressive is that they were able to get the message up on the side of one of Paris' best known monuments - the … [Read more...] about .Paris Takes Over The Eiffel Tower

.Paris Pioneers Go Live Tomorrow

June 3, 2014 by Michele Neylon

It looks like around 100 .paris domain names will be going live tomorrow as part of the .paris "pioneer" program. Here are some of the well known names that will be first to get their .paris domain name:RATP - the Parisian transport authority has managed to get metro.paris (no that link won't work just yet) Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy have managed to get … [Read more...] about .Paris Pioneers Go Live Tomorrow

OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

May 16, 2014 by Michele Neylon

OVH, a French registrar and hosting provider, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN.The registrar had not updated its whois format to be compliant with the 2013 RAA. So for example, a whois lookup on ovh.net currently returns:   # local time    : Friday, 16-May-2014 15:22:25 CEST # gmt time      : Friday, 16-May-2014 13:22:25 GMT # last modify   : … [Read more...] about OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format

French DPC Slaps Google With 150k Fine

February 8, 2014 by Michele Neylon

The French data protection authorities have fined Google 150000 Euro and obliged them to put a notice on their home page announcing the fine:The fine is the largest ever levied against a company in France and is due to both the seriousness of the data privacy issues and the number of of them (I'm paraphrasing): La sanction pécuniaire décidée constitue le montant le … [Read more...] about French DPC Slaps Google With 150k Fine

French Domains Popular With Individuals

April 22, 2013 by Michele Neylon

According to the .fr registry's latest report .fr domain names are popular with private individuals.One in two new .fr domain names is registered to a private individual.Currently over about 40% of .fr domains are registered to individuals, compared to approximately 20% 6 years ago.AFNIC's latest report is available here. … [Read more...] about French Domains Popular With Individuals

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