Afnic Upgrades Its Offer With a New Service for Locking .FR Domains

Afnic, the company behind .FR extension, announced recently that it is upgraing its offer with a new service for locking .FR domains.

You can read the press release after the jump :

“As of February 24, 2015, Afnic is upgrading its offer with a new service for locking .fr domain names.

Domain name deletions, fraudulent transfers and scams are commonplace and can lead to diversion of traffic or make a website completely inaccessible. They often make the headlines and their consequences can be extensive and costly for companies.

By degrading the trust of customers, these incidents can have a lasting affect on a company’s reputation and heavily penalize its activity. These scams happen when someone fraudulently accesses the registration data of the domain name and changes them.The .fr Lock service

With its new .fr Lock service, Afnic helps effectively control these risks by locking the domain name at the registry level. This offers a safety barrier for every company and institution whose website and online services are strategic and highly exposed to hacking risks.

The operations and updates on domain names locked are made possible only following a request to unlock made by the registrar. In reception, Afnic confirms these requests after a process of authentification.

This service will be available in the next few weeks within all .fr accredited registrars.
Testimonial

Patrick HAUSS, Regional Director EMEA – CSC Digital Brand Services

“Victims of attacks know it: the blocking of a website, an app or an e-mail address are events that remind us that some domain names are more valuable than others.

At CSC Digital Brand Services, we have chosen to accompany Afnic in its project to propose new protection tools for strategic domains. We have integrated the .fr Lock service to our range of services “CSC Multilock” and we offer this kind of registry lock each time a Top Level Domain offers this possibility. This tool is perfect to help us to optimize the portfolio plan we put in place to offer more security to the on-line activities of our clients.”