Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération


Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate a number of French country code top-level domain names such as
As of today, AFNIC is ruled under the 2007 February 6 decree. AFNIC is currently headquartered in the commune of Montigny-le-Bretonneux in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

Members

AFNIC includes public and private Internet players: users, domain name registrars, 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:
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.
90% of the profits generated by.fr domain names are donated to the Afnic Foundation for digital solidarity.

Top level domains (TDL) managed by AFNIC

French country-code top-level domains (ccTLD)