Buyers of French domains can now benefit from something that .COM owners have taken for granted for years: new names will go live quickly, even outside normal working hours.
It used to be, in times past (last month!), that French registry AFNIC simply went off-line in the evening and on week-ends.
Order a new .FR domain during those times, or even ask for changes to your existing domains (such as changing DNS servers, which can be crucial when putting a new website up for example) and you'd just have to wait.
AFNIC opening hours ran from 8:30 to 18:30, Mondays to Fridays, period.
Working round the clock
Today, that's all changed.
Since mid-November, the registry's been phasing in a new "non-stop workflow" system.
"Registration and publication of data via the Whois domain name service is now available round the clock, seven days a week," AFNIC proudly boasts. "In operations that do not require human intervention, the ticket workflow continues uninterrupted until the ticket is closed, regardless of the time slot." (No this isn't a translation, it's AFNIC's unmodified English-language advisory – we haven't touched it.)
So now, new .FR names can go live at night or the weekend. AFNIC's servers will be reloaded five times a day so that a new data (a new name being created, or a change to the contact details of an existing name) can go live.
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