Pierre Bonis joins the CENTR Board of Directors

04/07/2025

Pierre Bonis, has been elected as a Board of Directors member of CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries), the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries.

CENTR brings together a community of over 50 organisations responsible for managing country code top level domains in Europe, such as .fr for France and .de for Germany. The association plays a vital role in enabling coordination and the exchange of good practices and acts as a voice for its members at international level.

Pierre Bonis previously sat on the CENTR Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020, and is eager to put his expertise on matters surrounding Internet governance, technical resilience of digital infrastructures and digital sovereignty to use under this new term of office.

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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.

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