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Godefroy Beauvallet re-elected Chair of the Afnic Board of Trustees

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06/14/2022

The Afnic Board of Trustees welcomed two new elected trustees on 10 June 2022 and renewed the term of office of its Chair for a second three-year period.

Following the Afnic Ordinary General Meeting of 10 June 2022 which renewed three elected positions on the Board of Trustees, the new Board of Trustees re-elected Godefroy Beauvallet at the head of the Association.

Godefroy Beauvallet welcomed the arrival of new trustees Sébastien Almiron for Netim and Paul Perpère for the INPI as well as the re-election of Souleymane Oumtanaga (Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire). He also wished to express his warmest thanks to the trustees whose term of office ended, Benjamin Louis and Arnaud Wittersheim of Nameshield, for their extensive involvement within the Association and for their dedication in working for Afnic and the Internet community.

“It is my pleasure and honour to continue this adventure with Afnic in the service of the French Internet community and with the aim of strengthening the position of the .fr TLD as a secure and sovereign domain that is not only stable and innovative but exemplary in its digital sobriety.”

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Godefroy Beauvallet

Chair of the Board of Trustees

“The last three years of Godefroy Beauvallet’s chairmanship of our association have been action-packed and crowned with a great many achievements for Afnic. I am delighted that we are able to continue to implement our roadmap as the .fr registry and to invigorate the life of our association together alongside the Board of Trustees and the Afnic teams.”

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Pierre Bonis

Chief Executive Officer

See the biography

Parmi ces principaux engagements :

La poursuite de nos efforts pour développer le .fr et l’utilisation du numérique en France, qui passent aussi bien par des actions de promotion en synergie avec des partenaires tels que FranceNum, que par l’enrichissement de notre dispositif juridique contre les abus et le renforcement de notre infrastructure technique pour continuer d’offrir un service fiable.

La mise en œuvre de notre responsabilité sociétale et environnementale, avec la mise en place d’un système de gestion du développement durable ISO 26000, représente également un engagement fort.

L’Afnic se donnera également les moyens de poursuivre et d’approfondir sa veille technologique et ses actions de R&D, dans un contexte technologique très dynamique. En affectant 10 % de son Chiffre d’affaires à l’innovation, notre association entend, plus que jamais, être le centre français de ressources techniques sur le DNS et les protocoles qui permettent de faire fonctionner internet.

Enfin et surtout, nous continuerons de faire de l’Afnic et du numérique un vecteur de liens et de concertation au sein de la communauté française et internationale. Consultations publiques, plateforme de discussion, animation de groupes de travail, ces échanges sont synonymes de transparence, de richesse des partages, d’actions au service de l’intérêt général, de coopération qui constituent le cœur de notre association depuis sa création.

“The Afnic teams, its Board of Trustees, its members and all its partners form a terrific ecosystem buzzing with activities and collective intelligence, which upholds the founding principles of the Internet: openness, neutrality and responsibility.”

Godefroy Beauvallet : Beauvallet Godefroy

Godefroy Beauvallet

Chair of the Board of Trustees

About Godefroy Beauvallet

Godefroy Beauvallet, 50, has been Head of the General Council of the Economy since 2017. He has held several positions in the senior civil service, including as Chief of staff of the French Minister of State for Industry, Digital Affairs and Innovation or as Director of Innovation at the Mines-Telecom Institute between 2016 and 2017.
He is Associate Professor at Télécom ParisTech where he has been a full-time researcher between 2002 and 2007. He was also Vice-Chairman of the French National Council for the Digital Economy from 2013 to 2016. Godefroy Beauvallet has also held positions in the private sector, including as Director of the AXA Research Fund. Board member at INA (French Television National Archive operator) and co-founder of the Lean Institute France, Godefroy Beauvallet is engineer of the Corps des Mines, graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Télécom ParisTech and Mines ParisTech.

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.