Tasks and services

AFNIC has three main missions:

1. Technical mission:
   • to manage and to delegate some of the Internet Top Level Domains (TLDs) connected to French national territory.
     
     At the present time, AFNIC manages the following country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs):
     
     
     .fr - France,
     .re - Reunion Island,
     .pm - Saint-Pierre and Miquelon,
     .tf - French Southern Territories,
     .wf - Wallis and Futuna Islands,
     .yt - Mayotte ;
     
     
   • to ensure accessibility of these domains from every point of the Internet;
   • to keep up-to-date databases of these domains;
   • to develop and to supply to service providers other services that can contribute to digital economic development in France.
   
   
2. General interest mission:
   • to ensure the continuity of the French national territory on Internet;
   • to be a resource center for the French public institutions for Registry services and for support services for the digital economic development in France.
   
   
3. Scientific mission:
   • to foresee Internet evolutions;
   • to promote cooperation with other countries in our fields of expertise.
   
   

The AFNIC is absolutely not:

• a domain name reseller: as a neutral and independant entity, AFNIC does not directly sell domain names. This task is ensured by registrars under contract with AFNIC;
  
• a legal authority that can be referred for disputes or claims relative on French ccTLDs, except for obvious breaches of the provisions of the Decree dated 6 February, 2007;
• a legislator in matter of Internet rights;
• an Internet service provider;
• an advisor, a consultant on the choice of a registrar or a service provider.