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60% of .fr domain names are IPv6 compliant, an increase of 19 points in one year

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11/14/2012

Report 2012 of the French Domain Name Industry

The November issue of the AFNIC Domain Name Industry Report has indicated a new key figure. After the correlation between start-ups and the filing of .fr domain names last month, the deployment of IPv6 in the .fr zone is highlighted in this month’s study. Today, 6 out of 10 .fr domain names have an IPv6-compatible DNS server. The figure has risen 19 points since October 2011, when only 41% of .fr domain names had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers.

 

About Afnic

Afnic is the acronym for Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération, the French Network Information Centre. The registry has been appointed by the French government to manage domain names under the .fr Top Level Domain. Afnic also manages the .re (Reunion Island), .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon), .tf (French Southern and Antarctic Territories), .wf (Wallis and Futuna) and .yt (Mayotte) French Overseas TLDs.

In addition to managing French TLDs, Afnic’s role is part of a wider public interest mission, which is to contribute on a daily basis, thanks to the efforts of its teams and its members, to a secure and stable internet, open to innovation and in which the French internet community plays a leading role. As part of that mission, Afnic, a non-profit organization, has committed to devoting 11% of its Revenues from managing .fr Top Level Domain to actions of general interest, in particular by transferring €1.3 million each year to the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity.
Afnic is also the back-end registry for the companies as well as local and regional authorities that have chosen to have their own TLD, such as .paris, .bzh, .alsace, .corsica, .mma, .ovh, .leclerc and .sncf.

Established in 1997 and based in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Afnic currently has nearly 90 employees.