Domain names that use the .fr TLD such as this one can take some time to set up, due to AFNIC's famous ZoneCheck system and DNS propagation time.

The domain was created using the full1.gandi.net and full2.gandi.net forwarding nameservers which are very reliable for creating a .fr domain at Gandi.net. The actual domain itself took about 1 day to be registered at the registry and made visible on the internet.

My first idea was to put the blog on a subdomain, and leave the domain unused. However, this just looked lame, and so rather than having an address like www.blog.pinklady.fr I decided to configure my DNS to put the blog's IP directly on the domain itself. Of course switching the DNS from full1 and 2 to ns7.gandi.net and custom2.gandi.net took another day to be verified by AFNIC and to propagate the internet.

So even though I created thepinklady.fr a while ago, the blog you are looking at now took some time to actually appear where it is.