Afnic is the registry operator for the French country-code domain .fr. The organisation maintains the central database of .fr domain names and provides its services to accredited registrars, which sell the names to customers. Afnic also works on additional extensions, including extensions for French overseas territories. It is not a software product that organisations install; the service is used through registrars and online management tools.
Afnic is a non-profit association with its seat in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. According to the organisation, its activities are financed entirely by the services it provides, without grants or subsidies. As an association without shareholders, it has no foreign parent company. The organisation's public pages do not state where the registry infrastructure is hosted, so for European organisations the registrar that holds the customer contract is an important point to check.