2023
First place in the number of domain names among all Cyrillic domains
At the end of 2023, the Cyrillic domain of the Russian Federation showed serious successes: over the year, the domain grew by 92,769 domain names, or 13.7%, which, according to researchers, is an extremely high figure. The.RF domain retained its leadership among internationalized national top-level domains, ranking first in the number of domain names among all Cyrillic domains. In 2023, 244,266 domain names were registered in the RF. Such data are presented in the report "Russian Domain Space 2023," which was shared with TAdviser on April 3, 2024 in the Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF. Read more here.
Over the year, the.rf domain grew by 92,769 domain names, or 13.7%
Runet posted record growth in 2023. In particular, in the Cyrillic domain. RF by the end of 2023 there were 768,883 domain names, over the year the domain grew by 92,769 domain names, or 13.7%, which is an extremely high figure. As a result, the.RF domain retained its leadership among internationalized national top-level domains, ranking first in the number of domain names among all Cyrillic domains. In 2023, 244,266 domain names were registered in the RF. Read more here.
700 thousand registered names
By, in to data Coordination center of domains.RU/.РФ 2023 the Russian domain , the zones demonstrate record growth and by the end of August became the leaders in growth among all national top-level domains. The company announced this on September 25, 2023. The Cyrillic domain of the Russian Federation in September exceeded the figure of 700 thousand registered names, which is 27 thousand or 4% more than at the beginning of the year. More. here
Russia is ready for Internet autonomy in case of termination of the ICANN system
/. Domain Coordination Center .RU The Russian Federation has built a system for countering the consequences that may occur in the event of any sanctions decision by the global registrar ICANN. In particular, the registrar may disconnect the Russian domain the zones due to political pressure or default financial. The latter arose due to sanctions restrictions on settlements Russian banks with foreign ones. This became known on September 18, 2023. More. here
The number of domains with malware has sharply increased in the.rf zone
The number of blocked domains in the.rf zone that distributed malicious software in June 2023 increased 11.7 times compared to the previous month - to 2642 domains from 226. And this is significantly higher than in May 2022, when 9 domains that spread the virus were blocked. This was announced on July 17, 2023 at the Coordination Center for Domains. RU/.RF.
As Kommersant"" writes with reference to the project manager of the CC Yevgeny Pankov, by mid-July 2023 there is a "planned attack using the.rf domain," as a result of which the share of malicious sites in.rf increased from 1% to 10%. The center noted that in May and June 2023, all domains with malware ON turned out to be registered for passport data of citizens. China The sites created on them were used to distribute the universal Evo-gen Trojan, which affects devices on and, Android Windows as well as virus extortioner Zmutzy.Lscpt and the VoidBalaur Trojan.
The Ministry of Digital Development told the publication that in May 2023, about 2.2 thousand resources were identified and blocked that spread viruses in the.rf zone. Some of these sites contained links to malware, in some cases the content posted on the site was in Chinese, the ministry said.
According to Pankov, the speed of blocking malicious domains in Russia remains one of the fastest in the world and is about 25 hours from filing a complaint or detecting malicious activity to stopping domain delegation.
According to Kommersant, information security experts confirm the activation in the Russian Federation of "pro-state cyber espionage" groups associated with the PRC, calling them long-standing participants in hacker attacks in the country. In addition, experts on Russian-Chinese relations note that the attacks are one of the elements of negotiation positions that do not fundamentally interfere with the cooperation of countries.[1]
2022
The number of domain names in the.RF zone is 676,254 domains
The Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF on January 11, 2022 shared the results of 2022 for Russian national domains. At the end of December 2022, in the Cyrillic zone. RF - 676,254 domains with which 314,164 administrators work. Read more here.
The e-mail addresses of government agencies in Russia were transferred to the national domain zone - the government decree entered into force
On December 1, 2022, a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation entered into force, according to which the e-mail addresses of government agencies in Russia were transferred to the national domain zone. The latter includes the following domain name groups:
- top-level domain.ru;
- Top-level domain. RF;
- .su top-level domain;
- other top-level domains managed by legal entities registered in Russia that are registered owners of databases of specified domains in international organizations of distribution of network addresses and domain names.
According to the head of the ANO "Information Culture" Ivan Begtin, the new requirements may be related to the problems of state departments with the payment of sites in foreign domain zones, which began in the spring of 2022. According to the expert, such government services in foreign domain zones, as well as government agencies that use a non-cyclical name in the postal address, "a fairly large number," for example, EMIAS, which is located at emias.info (a common top-level domain that does not belong to the national Russian domain zone). He believes that such a transition, if the bill is passed, may take only about a month.
Head of the Coordination Center for.RU and.RF Domains. Andrei Vorobyov, in a conversation with RBC, said that the ground for the appearance of this bill had been preparing for a long time, and in 2022 this approach became especially relevant due to the aggravated international situation and attempts by some countries and organizations to build barriers in a single Internet space.
 | The Internet has long become part of the modern economy, and the importance of the stable functioning of all Internet services, including e-mail, cannot be overestimated. At the same time, Russian operators can guarantee the stable operation of all services in the Russian domain space, which includes the domains.RU,.RF and.SU, "he said.[2] |  |
Government agencies will use only Russian domain zones
On November 2, 2022, a decree of the Government of Russia was published, according to which, from December 1, 2022, all e-mail addresses that are used by state and local authorities must be created using domain names and network addresses in the Russian national domain zone. Read more here.
2021: The number of domain names in the zone. RF - over 670 thousand
At the end of 2021, the number of domain names registered in the RF zone amounted to more than 670 thousand.
2020
61 registrars are accredited in the.RU and.RF domains
In domains. RU and. RF accredited 61 registrars. This was announced on December 18, 2020 by the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet (CC).
5 registrars from Moscow were accredited - Domaine Agent LLC, Domen Domains LLC, Domain Services LLC, Open Domains LLC and Smart Domains LLC.
Accreditation agreements with them were concluded on December 17, 2020. These registrars will begin work after passing technical tests in the TCI and concluding agreements on access to the registry of.RU and.RF domains.
Over 720 thousand domain names are registered in the zone. RF
As of November 11, 2020, over 720 thousand domain names were registered in the zone. RF, 91.9% of them are delegated (ready for use). Domain. RF ranks 19th among the largest national domains in Europe and is the only non-Latin domain in this twenty. Over the past 10 years. RF has become the largest Cyrillic domain in the world and the second largest national IDN domain (from the English. Internationalized Domain Names - internationalized domain names), reported in the Coordination Center of Domains.RU/.RF.
Open registration in the zone. RF started on November 11, 2010. On that day, more than 240 thousand Cyrillic domains were registered.
| | "After the appearance of the.RF domain, 16 more top-level domains were registered in Cyrillic script: most countries have such domains where Cyrillic is used, and a certain number of Cyrillic domains appeared within the framework of ICANN the New gTLD program (from the English generic Top-Level Domain - common top-level domain, editor's note). TAdviser I am sure that when the second stage of this program starts, the world domain space will be replenished with new domains recorded in Cyrillic. The Coordination Center has extensive practical experience in launching and developing the.RF domain, and we are ready to share our work with colleagues, "said the director of the .RU Domain Coordination Center/.RF. Andrei Vorobyov | |
The Coordination Center of Domains.RU/.RF investigated the readiness of Runet to work with Cyrillic e-mail addresses
The study was conducted in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Authority Group (UASG) and Project Поддерживаю.РФ as part of an international project to analyse the level of universal acceptance, covering 1,000 of the most popular websites in 20 countries around the world.
Universal Acceptance - the state when all Internet applications, services and systems correctly and uniformly accept, check, store, process and display all correct domain names and email addresses, including those that use the characters of the local alphabet. The importance of this process has grown significantly in recent years with the development of domain zones in national languages (IDN) and the expansion of the use of non-Latin postal addresses (EAI).
As part of the study, seven types of email addresses that included Cyrillic characters were tested for adoption on each website through a registration (subscription) form or contact forms, if any.
To form a sample of tested Russian websites, the Yandex.Radar rating was used, but some of the popular resources, such as Yandex, Rambler, Mail.ru, individual social networks and video hosting, as well as services using their own authentication system, were excluded, since the mandatory requirement for their clients is the use of e-mail registered on the same portals.
According to the results of the study, 19% of Runet sites were able to accept e-mail addresses made up entirely of symbols of the national alphabet, which is the second result in the world. The first place belongs to Germany, where web projects that support the local alphabet turned out to be 28%. China took only fourth place in this ranking.
The greatest readiness to work with Cyrillic addresses was shown by Russian resources from the category of e-commerce (30%), online education (25%) and the banking sector (20%). The least prepared were media sites (only 11%). At the same time, the highest level of universal adoption in the world is demonstrated by bank sites, and the smallest - by online stores.
For example, in the e-commerce sector, the non-Latin addresses of the Ozone online store are correctly accepted, with some errors - Avito, Wildberries and several other projects. Among the media, no one has complete adoption of such e-mails, but RBC, Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta allow working with some types of Cyrillic spelling. In the banking industry, the adoption of Cyrillic mail is implemented on the websites of the Mir and Tinkoff Bank payment system, partially at Sberbank and Home Credit Bank. They do not work with such e-mail online resources of Alfa-Bank, VTB, Gazprombank, Otkritie Bank and Raiffeisen Bank. Of the state services, only the Public services portal can boast of supporting the Russian language in e-mail addresses. The websites of the Federal State Automated System "Justice" or the official resource of the mayor of Moscow do not work with them.
Поддерживаю.РФ - Cyrillic Domain Support Project
The Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF launched a program for supporting Cyrillic domains in May 2020. The project, called Поддерживаю.РФ, is aimed at solving one of the most important problems in working with non-Latin and, in particular, Cyrillic domain names - providing them with transparent support in software.
Despite the fact that non-Latin domain names (IDNs) have existed for more than 10 years, a significant part of the software uses domain conversion to ASCII through Punycode conversion and displays them in such a way that it scares unprepared users and worsens user experience. Internationalized mail addresses (EAIs), which are still used extremely rarely, are a separate problem, since refusing to support them at any of the intermediate mail nodes leads to a non-delivery of the message.
Поддерживаю.РФ is designed to help software developers implement full support for IDN domain names and EAI mail addresses, primarily Cyrillic, in their products, and for system administrators to correctly select and configure software that has this ability. The project website contains Russian-language documentation on working with internationalized domain names and mail addresses, including standards and best practices for their processing in software, and also constantly updates the catalog of software products indicating the current situation with their support for IDN and EAI protocols.
Main article: Поддерживаю.РФ
In the zone. RF in May, 730 thousand domains were registered
On May 12, 2020, hosting provider REG.RU published up-to-date statistics on one of the main domains: RuNet number of addresses, geography by region, use of domain names, popular CMS and other indicators. As of May 12, 2020, 730,000 domains were registered in the RF zone. Since the opening of registration, it is among the top 20 largest in, To Europe where it is the only non-Latin (IDN). Among the registrars in terms of the number of accepted domains, REG.RU is in first place - 325,000 (44.5%), followed by Ru-Center - 200,000 (27.5%), closes the top three - R01 64,000 (9%).
According to the company, the domains of the RF are in demand not only in the primary, but also in the secondary market. For example, the REG.RU Domain Store contains 32,000 addresses in the.RF zone, or 15% of the total number of lots: more than 200,000. The average check for buying an address in.RF in the REG.RU Domain Store is 11,000 rubles. One of the most expensive purchases of the Cyrillic address at open auctions recently took place in December 2019, the amount amounted to 550,000 rubles.
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Most of all in the RF domain names with an age of less than 1 year (192,000 addresses). In second place are names aged 9 years with a share of 15.5% (113,000 addresses). This means that business representatives and domainers, who at the start of the zone invested in the RF, retain their assets here. In addition, a number of transactions in the secondary market could be carried out without zeroing the registration date, which retained the age of the domains (for example, when buying in the Domain Store, the administrator changes, the domain itself is not deleted). In third place are domains with an age of 1 year (13.5%).
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Most domains are registered in Moscow - 180,000 (24.5%) and the Moscow region - 64,000 (9%). In St. Petersburg, there are 57,000 (8%), and in the Krasnodar Territory - 25,000 (3.5%). Below are the Sverdlovsk region with 22,000 (3%) and Novosibirsk with 17,000 (2%). Next are the Chelyabinsk region - 16,500 (2.30%) and Samara - 13,000 (1.8%). The Yaroslavl region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory close the top 10 with almost the same indicator - about 11,500 addresses or 1.5%.
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According to StatOnline.ru, 289,000 domains are hosted in the.RF zone, which is almost 40% of the total. A significant part (137,000) is located in the parking lot (20%), and 87,000 are used for forwarding (12%). The least number of domains used only for mail is 2,500 (0.3%).
Among CMS (content management systems of the site) in the first place is WordPress (42%), in the second and third - Joomla and 1C-Bitrix with almost equal shares (13.6% and 13.5%, respectively).
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Security on the Web is one of the current topics. In the RF, the number of SSL certificates is growing, which indicates the desire of site owners to protect user and client information. In addition, search engines also have their own requirements for the presence of SSL certificates on the site. As of May 2020, the share of valid SSLs (i.e. issued by certification centers) is 131,000 (84%), other invalid ones - 16,500 (11%) and self-signed ones - 8,500 (5.5%). Three years ago, the number of valid certificates was 33,000 (61%), invalid - 11,500 (21%), and self-signed - 10,000 (20%).
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The issue of using the Internet protocol IPv6 also remains relevant for May 2020. So, in November 2019, RIPE NCC announced the final distribution of the last IPv4 block. The organization will continue to work only with returned addresses. In the RF, as of May 2020, 478,000 domains (82%) with IPv4 protocol and 99,000 addresses (17%) that use two protocols at the same time - IPv4 and IPv6. Three years ago, their shares were 610,000 (91%) and 55,000 (8%), respectively.
| | For 10 years, the world's first Cyrillic domain zone. RF has shown its demand in various industries. Sites here are hosted by individual entrepreneurs, big business, social and cultural projects, government agencies. The geography of the domain is also diverse: in addition to Russia and the CIS countries, domains in the RF are registered in the USA, Germany, France, Great Britain and other countries. The audience of native speakers of the Russian language in May 2020 exceeds two hundred million users, which means that the zone definitely has prospects. told Alexey Korolyuk, CEO of hosting provider and REG.RU domain registrar | |
The reservation of second-level domain names in the RF zone for state needs has been extended
On February 11, 2020, the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet announced that the amended editions of a number of documents would come into force. We are talking about the Rules for registering domain names in domains. RU and. RF and Regulation "On Procedures to be Applied in the Event of Disputes over Domain Names." Read more here.
Published "Methodology for assessing the cost of domain names in domains.RU and.РФ"
The website of the Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF published"Methodology for assessing the market value of second-level domain names in top-level domains.RU and.RF in the secondary market of domain names," developed by NAO Euroexpert by order of the Coordination Center. The methodology is a set of methods and algorithms by which you can obtain the predicted value of a domain name in the secondary market.
2019
Almost 2.8 million domains are registered in the zone. RF
On May 12, 2010, an entry about the Cyrillic domain.RF appeared in the registers of root servers of the global domain addressing system. Over the years, almost 2.8 million domain names have been registered in the.RF domain, and the domain itself ranks first among all "non-Latin" zones in terms of the number of names. 47 accredited registrars provide registration in the Russian Cyrillic domain zone, the Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain reported on May 13, 2019.
As of May 2019, there are 774,517 domain names in the.RF domain, of which almost 693 thousand are delegated, or 89.5% of the total. 33.8% of domain names in the RF are over 5 years old. Every third (34.5%) site in the Cyrillic domain hosts full-fledged working web resources, another 23.3% of domain names are used to host business card sites and web applications. 79% of domain names are registered by individuals, 21% - legal.
In total, almost 370 thousand domain name administrators work in the domain zone of the Russian Federation, i.e. there are on average a little more than 2 domain names per administrator.
In the zone of the RF - 778 thousand domains
The total number of domains registered in the.RF zone is[3] thousand. At the same time, 695 thousand of them are delegated, that is, users indicated - for these domains. DNSservers Also, according to the analytical resource StatOnline[4], 39% of domains are hosted, 20% are parked, and 10% are used to redirect to other domains (redirects).
Among registrars in the.RF zone, REG.RU retains its leadership position: the company has more than 41% of.RF domains in service. In second place is Ru-center (27.4%), and in third place is R01 (9.4%). REG.RU also ranks first as a hosting provider: 16.58% of sites on the.RF domain are located at its facilities.
More than 79% of.RF domains have valid SSL certificates. Among certification centers, Let's Encrypt leads by a huge margin, whose certificates are installed on 83% of domains in the.RF zone. Popularity is explained by the free and simple process of obtaining a certificate.
Most domains of the Russian Federation (92.6%) are registered in Russia. At the same time, Andorra, a small European state with a population of 85,000 people, is in second place among the countries in which this domain is most popular.
2018
Director of the Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF Andrei Vorobyov spoke in December 2018 about how things are in the domain industry. In the largest national domain.RU there are more than 5 million domain names, in the RF - more than 800 thousand. Since the beginning of 2018, more than 1.4 million domain names have been registered in two Russian domains, 46 accredited registrars are engaged in this. Interestingly, in 2018, the share of domain names registered by Russians in new top-level domains significantly decreased. If in 2017 there were 5.7% of such domain names from all registered in Russia, then in 2018 their share is only 0.4%. The share of national domains among all names that are used in Russia increased over the year from 78.3% to 80.9%.
"Despite the fact that country domains around the world are now showing very restrained growth or even decline, the Russian national domains.RU and.RF retained their positions in the world rankings, ranking fifth in the number of registered domain names among all national top-level domains. In addition, the share of Russian registrations of names in the national domains of.RU and.RF has increased: in 2018 it is 80.9%, which is 2.6 percentage points higher than it was at the end of 2017. This suggests that Russian national domains are still in well-deserved demand and trust among Russian users, "said Andrei Vorobyov.
2017: The RF domain is 7 years old
Currently, 902,593 domain names are registered in the RF, over the year the domain has grown by 2.5%. Registration in the domain zone is provided by 45 accredited registrars. 81% of domain names in the RF are registered by individuals, 19% - by legal entities.
88% of domain names in the RF are delegated - over the year, the number of delegated domains increased by 2%. 32% of domain names host websites, another 13% of second-level domains are used for redirects. More than 34% of domain names have existed for 4 years or more.
2015: The RF domain is 5 years old
On May 12, 2015, the Cyrillic domain of the Russian Federation will be five years old.
According to the statdom.ru portal, more than 830 thousand domain names are registered in the zone. RF, 83% are delegated.
Statistics on the use of names in the zone. RF, 2015
In Russia, the greatest interest in domains. RF is shown by residents of Moscow and the Moscow region (more than 290 thousand), St. Petersburg (more than 60 thousand) In the regions, the maximum demand was recorded in the Tyumen region, Krasnodar Territory, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk regions.
78% of domain names in the.RF zone are registered by individuals. More than a third of domains are "centenarians" - their age is at least 4 years.
2014: "Point of the Russian Federation" became a registered trademark
The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (FIPS) decided to state registration of the combined trademark. "RF." The application for registration of the trademark. "RF" was submitted by the administrator of the top-level domain. RF Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet. The decision of the FIPS reports that the declared designation has passed an examination and meets the conditions of its state registration as a trademark.
Domain. RF is the largest among internationalized in Europe
The CENTR National Top Level Domain Registrars Association (ccTLD) presented in April 2014 a regular report on national domain trends. The document summarizes the data for the period from March 13, 2013 to February 14, 2014.
The largest national top-level domain remains the Tokelau Domain (.TK), an island territory administered by New Zealand. It is worth bearing in mind, however, that the Tokelau domain offers free registration to everyone, professing a business model that is fundamentally different from the one adopted in most ccTLD..TK accounts for 22.2% of all domain names registered in national top-level domains. This is followed by the Chinese domain.CN - 15.7% of all registrations. The.CN domain also showed the most active growth during the reporting period - 16.5%.
The Russian national domain.RU ranks sixth in the list of the world's largest ccTLDs with 4.9% of all registrations. At the same time, in Europe, the.ru domain is the fourth, second only to the national domains of Germany (.DE), Great Britain (.UK) and the Netherlands (.NL). And the Russian domain. RF is the largest among internationalized (using non-Latin characters in spelling names) in Europe. It has 851535 names registered, which is more than 10 times more than in the Swedish.SE domain in second place.
And a few more curious numbers. The fastest developing in the period from November-2013 to February-2014 among European ccTLDs was the national domain of Belarus.BY - an increase of 5.7%. And the country with the largest number of registered domains "per capita" was the Principality of Liechtenstein. For 100 residents, there are 173 domains registered in the national domain zone (for comparison: in Germany and the UK, this figure is 19 and 17 domains, respectively).
2013: 823K domain names
As of May 2013, 790,742 domain names were registered in the.RF domain, of which 600,370 domain names were delegated, or almost 76% of the total. The growth of delegated domain names over the past year amounted to 4% in the.RF domain.
On 165.876 (21%) domain names in the domain. RF posted working websites, on another 106.699 (13.5%) domain names sites are under development. 12.9% (101.799) of domain names are used for parking, while 11% (85.661) are used for redirecting.
78% of domain names are registered by individuals, 22% - legal.
51% of domain names in the.RF domain are 2 years old and older. Interestingly, this figure is lower in.RU - there are 43.5% of such domain names among domain names in the.RU domain.
As of October 2013, 823,618 domain names were registered in the RF zone for three years of its existence, of which 21.8% were domains of legal entities, and 78.2% were domains of individuals. The increase since the beginning of 2013 amounted to 4.3% (33,318 names), over the month - 1%, which indicates a stable positive dynamics of the development of the Cyrillic domain, Andrei Kolesnikov, director of the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet, told TAdviser in an interview.
2012: Reduction in the number of domains by 158 thousand
In 2012, the number of domains registered in the.rf zone decreased by 158 thousand domain names, which the CC explains by the removal of domain names registered in the conditions of high demand in November-December 2010, which was carried out in early 2012 - in the first months of open registration in.rf. In the period from March to November 2012, the dynamics of the total number of domain names in the.rf zone remained positive - the net monthly increase averaged 1%.
Natsionalnyy domain. the Russian Federation it is called in the fall of 2012 the most successful among the internationalized domains of the top level. The Coordination center of the national domain of the Internet with reference to the report on development of IDN domains of the European registry of EURid reports about it. Issledovaniye provodilos sovmestno with mezhdunarodnoy UNESCO organizatsiey.
According to opinion of experts of EURid, monthly growth of the Cyrillic domain is comparable to growth of the domain. ru, also in a research is noted that the number of the registered domains in a zone will increase, that is. RF has khoroshiye perspektivy for svoego razvitiya. The rating of EURid and UNESCO included also country domains of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Korea.
According to the statistical resource "Domains of Russia", the quantity of domain names of century of the Russian Federation contains more than 845 thousand, from them more than 73% are delegated. Prirost the domenov century the Russian Federation for minuvshuyu nedelyu sostavil more than two thousand names (as of October 2012).
2011: 900,000 domains
900 thousand domain names were registered in the national domain zone of the Russian Federation, the Coordination Center.RU/.RF said in September 2011. This took less than 11 months from the start date of registration, which opened on November 11, 2011. The.RF domain today is in 15th place in terms of the number of registered names among European domains.
95.68% of all domain names in the Cyrillic.RF zone are registered in Russia. The three geographical leaders in terms of the number of registered domains include Moscow (32.48% of all registered domains in April), Moscow region (8.8%) and St. Petersburg (8.14%). Domain. RF has spread beyond the borders of the homeland. The top five countries leading in the number of registered domains. RF, after Russia, included countries such as Switzerland, the USA, Germany and Ukraine.
According to the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet, the most common names in the Cyrillic domain zone are names containing from 7 to 12 characters. The average length of the name in the Cyrillic zone is 11.4 characters.
In 2011, the growth of the domain zone was 34%, while the growth of the.RU zone was only 15%. Now the domain zone is approaching 800,000 domain names, most of which (67.23% of all active domains) are one year old. Domains registered in the first year of the zone's existence account for only 1.17% of the market. According to the forecast of the general director of the REG.RU registrar Alexei Korolyuk, the domain. RF can step over the important mark of one million registrations by its next birthday.
Hundreds of domain names are registered daily in the Cyrillic domain zone. RF. According to statistics from the Coordination Center, in April, REG.RU became the most popular registrar in the.RF domain zone among users, whose share was 32.42% of the total number of new domains over the past month. The company remains among the leaders in terms of the number of domains in service. RF, being the registrar 22.19% of the total number of all domains registered in the Cyrillic zone.
For almost two years since the beginning of the open registration of Cyrillic domains in the.rf zone, 822 thousand names have been registered. At the same time, about 27% of names are not delegated, so by November the number of Cyrillic domains may decrease. According to CC statistics, about 46.5% of domains are actively used in the.rf zone: 35.8% of domains have websites, and 10.7% of domains are redirected to other resources. For comparison, 58.4% of domains are used in the.ru zone in the same way, and only 4.3% of domains are redirected to third-party resources.
The logo "points of the Russian Federation" was developed in early 2012. Today this designation is widely used on the Internet, in the media, in outdoor advertising. It is a key element of the Coordination Center's campaign to popularize the top-level national Cyrillic domain of the Russian Federation among Russian citizens.
The registrar REG.RU conducted a survey among his clients in the summer of 2011 to find out why they register Cyrillic domains, what they see the advantages of the new zone, what forecasts give for the further development of the domain.
Survey participants told for what purpose they register.RF domains. 42% purchased domains. RF to create personal sites, 35% - to solve the business problems of their company (from the bottom 3% - to protect the domain from seizure by competitors/cybersquatters), 8% plan to resell purchased domains, 4% registered domains as a gift, 2% felt the fashion trend and acquired a domain in the new zone. This ratio coincides with statistics: 63% of the total number of registered domains in the zone. RF belong to individuals, 27% - to legal entities.
The absolute majority (73%) of respondents recognized the advantages of the.RF domain over other national zones, among the main advantages were the simplicity of typing a site (28%), memorability (16%), the ability to use the Russian language, and not the Latin alphabet (13%), new opportunities for promoting business on the Internet (11%).
As for the selection of a domain name, the most popular among the respondents were domains that fully coincide with the name of the company/brand, names of goods and services, names, surnames, nicknames, funny, memorable words. About 6% came up with a non-existent word.
One of the most discussed topics in recent days has become the stop list of the.RF domain, which contains obscene expressions, swear words, jargon, prohibited for use when creating a site name in the Cyrillic zone. 54% of respondents agree that the registration of such words should be prohibited, 24% speak out against restrictions, for 20% it does not matter much.
It is noteworthy that 12% of respondents registered domain names for the future and now they do not plan to use them. This trend can be traced in general statistics: delegated, that is, ready for full-fledged work, today 37% of the total number of registered domains. If you look at the oldest domains of the Russian Federation registered a year ago, in the first days of priority registration, you can see that out of 1,554 registered domains, 863 are delegated - just over half.
Of course, companies, the state, the media, and public organizations are primarily invested in the development of their presence in the Cyrillic zone. But Internet users have already managed to assess the potential of the.RF domain: starting from the first days of open registration, a variety of personal mini-pages with a Cyrillic (sometimes rather funny) address actively appear, on which photos, forums, etc. are posted using standard social media tools.
What forecasts for the development of the zone. RF give users? 40% believe that the.RF domain will develop and exist in parallel with.RU, 30% expect that the.RF domain will become the main Runet domain, and 30% are not sure that it will be actively used and will be able to compare in popularity with.ru.
In honor of the first birthday, the REG.RU registrar presented the logo of the.RF domain zone for free use by Russian Internet users in everyday communication. Also launched a site for public congratulations of the Cyrillic domain - www.с-днем-рождения.рф.
2010: Starting the domain
On May 12, 2010, an entry about the Cyrillic domain.RF appeared in the registries of root servers of global domain addressing. The administrator of the new root domain was officially the ANO "Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet."
For the first year of its existence, the.RF domain has repeatedly surprised both Russians and the world Internet community. The history of the launch of open registration of the RF in November 2010, when more than 240,000 domain names were registered in the first day, and in just the first month of work in the RF almost 700,000 registrations were carried out, has become one of the main trends in many international and Russian forums and conferences of recent times. The 15th place in the number of domain names among European national domains also speaks for itself - in early April. The Russian Federation overtook the traditional country domain of the Czech Republic.CZ. As of May 2011, 826,610 domain names were registered in the.RF domain, and more than 58% were delegated. The combination. RF is increasingly found on advertising posters, every day new sites are opened in the zone. RF.
In 2010, on the night of May 12-13, the first sites in the Russian Cyrillic domain zone were launched. RF. As of the beginning of 2012, the number of delegated, that is, working, domains is almost 600,000.
2009: Approval of application to ICANN
In 2009, ICANN approved an application for the creation of a Cyrillic top-level domain.RF.
On November 25, 2009, registration was opened in the Cyrillic domain zone. RF - the new national domain of Russia.
Following Russia, Cyrillic domains appeared in Ukraine (.UKR), Serbia (.SBR) and Kazakhstan (. ҚAZ). Web users willingly use the Cyrillic alphabet, since long words and collocations in their native language recorded in the national alphabet are much easier to remember and reproduce than English or Russian ones recorded using transliteration.
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