Through its members, team and partners, Afnic brings together personalities with a perceptive and sometimes offbeat view of current events on the internet, domain names and, of course, Afnic itself. With this blog, we aim to share with you a freer and more personal, but still expert and professional expression of views on topical matters.

David Chansard, Afnic Customer Service Representative, interviews himself
David Chansard is one of our support and customer advisors. ...

Managing a domain name portfolio for Key Accounts: challenges, roles, good practices
These days, organisations with the largest domain name portfolios ...

“No” to abandoning domain names!
A .fr domain name is abandoned every minuteSummer’s here, ...

.COM and .NET: situation update
This latest article follows on from the publication in autumn ...

Foster dialogue, put forward proposals, create and convey a vision of an Internet that benefits everyone
A non-profit organisation, Afnic builds on its association-based ...

Imaginons.mma: a strategic naming underpinning a high-added-value CRM approach
The leading mutual insurance group in France, MMA is one of 496 ...

SPF, DKIM and DMARC: what’s the situation with the .fr TLD?
Email is one of the oldest internet applications. It was conceived ...

Adopting DNSSEC is never too late
DNSSEC is an old technology, the current version having been ...

IoT privacy: mid-term progress report on the PIVOT project and Afnic’s work
As a back-end registry operator and stakeholder in Research ...

An Internet still under construction: back to the French Internet Governance Forum 2022
The 2022 edition of the French Internet Governance Forum (IGF ...

ICANN: its life and work (part 6): The Supporting Organizations: focus on the ccNSO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...

.brand: a non-negligible asset in the customer experience
The notion of customer experience is a broad concept that encompasses ...

Internet Governance Forum Ethiopia 2022: towards greater resilience in times of crisis
The seventeenth edition of the annual Internet Governance ...

Using the .fr API with Elixir (4/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API and we’ve ...


RDAP, obtaining information on a domain name
To obtain information on a domain name, for example on its holder’s ...





Using the .fr API with Go (3/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API and we’ve ...





Using the .fr API with Python (2/4)
We’ve presented the general workings of the .fr API. Let’s ...


ICANN 75: election of new representatives, Internet fragmentation and handling abuse
The Internet governance summit, the 25th ICANN AGM was held ...


RFC 9276, Afnic adopts the no-salt diet
In the sleepy days of summer, just a few weeks before the switch-over ...





The .fr API for Registrars (1/4)
Since 1 October 2022, the .fr Registrars have had an API (Application ...


ICANN: its life and work (part 5): The Supporting Organizations: focus on the GNSO
Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the ...


Increase of .com and .net prices: between protecting margins and forging ahead?
On 28 July 2022, Verisign, the registry for the .COM and .NET ...


Tricks of the trade – the actors involved in setting up a custom TLD: the data escrow provider
A custom TLD is set up with a certain number of specific actors, ...


Calling all Registrars: .FR = greater profit margins!
I won’t repeat in this article the fact that the .fr TLD is the ...