Afnic, the association responsible for managing the .fr Internet Top Level Domain and several French overseas and other generic TLDs, today announced the renewal of its partnership with Paris City Council. The .paris Top Level Domain will now be managed by way of a service concession.
Following a public call for tenders, the City of Paris reaffirmed its trust in Afnic for the technical management of the domain, already handled by the Association since 2014. Afnic’s remit will also be expanded to include communication and promotion of the .paris TLD, as well as the development of initiatives designed to increase its adoption by businesses and private individuals.
Officially launched in 2014, the .paris TLD was created in the context of ICANN’s 2012 call for applications aimed at opening new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), particularly those of a geographical nature. With the support of Afnic, Paris City Council seized the opportunity to file its application and obtain its own Internet top-level domain.
Since then, the .paris domain has allowed individuals, businesses and organisations with links to Paris, whether geographical, cultural or sentimental, to clearly demonstrate their attachment to the French capital in their online presence.
For further information on the .paris TLD, visit bienvenue.parisAbout 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.
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