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French non-profit top-level domain operator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération (lit. 'French Association for Cooperative Internet Naming', AFNIC) is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate country code top-level domain names for France and a number of its overseas departments and collectivities. These include:
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| Company type | Non-profit organization |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet, Communications |
| Founded | 4 December 1997 |
| Headquarters | Guyancourt, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France |
| Website | www |
As of today, AFNIC is ruled under Decree 2007-162 of 6 February 2007.[1] AFNIC is currently headquartered in the commune of Guyancourt in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.[2]
AFNIC includes public and private Internet players: users (legal entities and individuals), domain name registrars (Internet service providers), international entities and public authoritative representatives.
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.
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