.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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".ru" is the internet address ending for websites in Russia, similar to how ".com" is used for many commercial sites. It was created in 1994 and remains the primary way Russian websites are identified online, though Russia also has a newer option using Cyrillic characters called ".рф".
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Key facts
- Top level domain.name
- .ru
- Top level domain.background
- CCF
- Top level domain.image
- DotRu domain logo.png
- Top level domain.type
- Country code top-level domain
- Top level domain.status
- Active
- Top level domain.registry
- Coordination Center for TLD RU
- Top level domain.intendeduse
- Entities connected with Russia
- Top level domain.actualuse
- Very popular in Russia
- Top level domain.disputepolicy
- None
- Top level domain.registereddomains
- 5,381,137
- Top level domain.dateregistereddomains
- January 2018
- Top level domain.structure
- Registrations are permitted directly at the second level; third-level registrations are also possible under the rule of the official registry
Article
9 sectionsContents
- Background
- Development of .ru
- Second-level domains
- Generic second-level domains
- Second-level domains for federal subjects of Russia
- Other geographic second-level domains
- See also
- References
- External links
.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.
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.