AFNIC is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate a number of French country code top-level domain

Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

 names such as .fr

.fr

.fr is the country code top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. Along with .re and .tf, it is administered by AFNIC.The .fr top-level domain is divided into a number of second-level domains:...

, .re

.re

.re is the Internet country code top-level domain for Réunion. Along with .fr and .tf, it is administered by AFNIC.AFNIC does not allow .re registrations from organisations or individuals outside Île de La Réunion....

 and .tf

.tf

.tf is the Internet country code top-level domain for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands . Along with .fr and .re, it is administered by AFNIC. Before October 23, 2004, Adamsnames, based in Cambridge, administered this TLD....

. As of today, AFNIC is ruled under the 2007 February 6 decree . AFNIC is currently headquartered on the seventh floor of Hall A2, a part of the Immeuble International building in the commune of Montigny-le-Bretonneux

Montigny-le-Bretonneux

Montigny-le-Bretonneux is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris from the center, in the "new town" of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, of which it is the central and most populated...

 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is a new town in the French département of Yvelines. It is one of the original five villes nouvelles of Paris and was named after the Saint Quentin Pond, which was chosen to become the town's centre. The town was built from a greenfield site starting in the 1960s. In...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Members

AFNIC includes public and private Internet players: users (legal entities and individuals), domain name registrars (Internet service providers), international entities and public authoritative representatives.

Missions

AFNIC manages a general interest service. Therefore it is at the crossroads of operators, Internet Service Providers, Internet users, public authorities as well as other national and international parties.

This privileged position and responsibility leads AFNIC to participate in the evolution of Internet governance and management. Thus, AFNIC is largely involved in the international relations chorus.

Through its missions, the international actions of AFNIC are focused on three main directions:

• to contribute and participate to the global Internet governance and management (WSIS, ICANN, CENTR...);
• to introduce new standards and services (IETF, RIPE NCC
  RIPE NCC
  The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia...
  
  );
• to transfer its knowledge and know-how (International College).

Over the past few years, the number of international meetings in which the domain name registries are involved is constantly increasing. This strong international activity demonstrates that domain name registries have a key role to play in the information society globalisation process.

News and financial reports

• AFNIC publishes its French Domain Name Industry Report
• AFNIC launches DNSwitness, a multi-purpose software for DNS measurements
• Publication of the synthesis of the public consultation on French Top Level Domains
• AFNIC publishes its first decisions in regards to its specific dispute resolution procedure for obvious breaches of the stipulations of the decree of February 6th, 2007