LightOn announced a one-year contract with the Afnic, the .fr registry, on Sep 30, 2025

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LightOn announced on Sep 30, 2025 that it had signed a one-year contract with the Afnic, the registry for .fr domain names (nearly 4.3 million of them, by the release's count). LightOn filed the release with the AMF, the French markets regulator, as inside information, and the text is in French.1^,2^,3^,4

According to the release, the Afnic chose the sovereign generative AI platform that LightOn developed, deployed in hybrid mode on a trusted French cloud infrastructure. The release said the Afnic's teams would be able to query internal data of any format or source from one tool, using the managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) feature of LightOn's Paradigm platform, a technique in which a model looks up relevant documents before it answers. LightOn presented the contract as an example of a growing willingness among organizations in charge of public data to use sovereign, secure AI solutions hosted in France.5^,6^,7^,8

Igor Carron, LightOn's co-founder and chief executive, said the choice showed that it was possible to innovate in AI while keeping critical data hosted and protected in France. Benoît Ampeau, the Afnic's partnership and innovation director, said the Afnic had to combine innovation and responsibility in how it handled data, and that the collaboration and the integration of Paradigm answered that and opened new prospects for its teams and stakeholders.9^,10^,11^,12

The release described the Afnic as the registry the French state designated to manage .fr domain names. In the release, LightOn described itself as a pioneer in sovereign generative AI, founded in 2016 in Paris and listed on Euronext Growth, with Paradigm as the platform that lets organizations deploy AI at scale while keeping their data confidential.13^,14

In the text we hold, the release states no price and no start date for the contract; that text is this one release, 5,869 characters on 3 pages, in French, as the issuer's distributor filed it, with its pictures, charts and layout left out. We hold no document the release refers to and no earlier or later version of it.15