The French registry operator AFNIC has suspends 7,000 speculative registrations.

AFNIC noted that the Guillaume.net / ZioConcept.net association registered more than 7,000 .fr domain names, corresponding for most of them to family names.

These massive registrations are restraining many individuals to register their last names under .fr. These registrations are considered as an obvious violation of the .fr Charter. Article 12 of the Charter stipulates that third party rights must be respected. The AFNIC has also received a high number of complaints. The action taken by the AFNIC is therefore in accordance with its outlines to fight obvious violations of the .fr Charter.