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| Introduced | 7 April 1994 |
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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 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.
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.
- ^ "Domeny Rossii – Celi ispol'zovanija domenov" Домены России - Цели использования доменов (in Russian). cctld.ru, tcinet.ru. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ int.ru