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A .fr domain name generates 147g of CO2 per year |
| Afnic publishes some important insights into its environmental impact in its 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. |
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| Partnership agreement between Afnic and DNSRF to strengthen the security of the DNS |
| Afnic, the registry responsible for managing the .fr ccTLD and several other French overseas and generic Top Level Domains, has signed a strategic partnership with the DNS Research Federation, dedicated to the analysis and security of the domain name system. |
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| 2024 customer satisfaction survey: notable improvement of results |
| As it does every year, Afnic publishes the results of the satisfaction survey conducted among its distribution network. This feedback enables it to improve the quality or the nature of the services offered, and to adapt its actions to its customers’ needs and expectations. |
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| Does your company, city or region need its own TLD? |
| You may have witnessed a meteor shower or the aurora borealis on your holidays, but another, rarer event is set to take place in 2026: the opening of applications for new Internet domains (or “new Top-Level Domains”). The last application round was held in 2012 over the course of just three short months. An event Afnic announced on its blog. |
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| Brand TLD Success story: how .microsoft has boosted customer experience |
| A successful project provides a concrete solution to a real problem! A lesson that has once again been proven true, this time by Microsoft and its .microsoft brand TLD. |
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| RIPE Atlas probes, the world's largest Internet monitoring system |
| The Internet is vast and consists of innumerable networks, each with its own specific features. It happens frequently, for example, that there is a problem with one particular network but not with another. So we need to be able to query a service from a number of different locations. That’s what RIPE Atlas probes allow us to do, thousands of tiny machines which, placed all over the Internet, enable everyone to see how it works. |
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| DNS delegation and its possible evolution with DELEG |
| The notion of delegation is central to the world of domain names and their use in the DNS. While it may have been around for a long time, the concept is still widely misunderstood. And with the IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force, the main standards organisation for the Internet). DELEG project it could change substantially in the future. What is DNS delegation? And what does this project – which will considerably change the DNS if it gets off the ground – consist of? |
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| Afnic
7 avenue du 8 mai 1945
78280 Guyancourt
France
Tél. : +33 (0)1 39 30 83 00 |
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