.ru
Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain for Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.ru is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Russia introduced on 7 April 1994. The Russian alphabet internationalized country code is .рф.
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Introduced | 7 April 1994; 30 years ago (1994-04-07) |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Coordination Center for TLD RU |
Intended use | Entities connected with Russia |
Actual use | Very popular in Russia |
Registered domains | 5,381,137 (January 2018)[1] |
Structure | Registrations are permitted directly at the second level; third-level registrations are also possible under the rule of the official registry |
Documents | Documents |
Dispute policies | None |
DNSSEC | yes |
Registry website | cctld.ru |
Control of .ru is assigned to the Coordination Center for TLD RU (CC for TLD RU), the current official registry. On 1 January 2005, the former registry, the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN), stopped new registrations directly under .ru, but still carried out registry operations for domain names under the second-level domains .com.ru, .net.ru, .org.ru and .pp.ru.
The company RELCOM also proposes third-level registrations beneath various second-level domains such as .msk.ru (Moscow), while Macomnet Telcom[2] proposes third-level registrations beneath .int.ru simultaneously.