Reg.ru Domain Name Registrar (RDC)

Reg.ru Russian is an accredited registrar of domain names and -. hostingprovider

Owners

As of October 2021, the owner of 100% of the REG.RU group of companies is Ru-Web LLC . Investments. "

Performance indicators

As of November 2017, Reg.ru, according to a company representative, serves more than three million domains and offers registration in more than 750 international domain zones, as well as provides hosting services, rental of physical servers, mail, and so on.

History

2024: Buying Reddock's customer base

In mid-February 2024, it was announced the sale of Reddock's client base to the hosting provider Reg.ru. The company did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction. Read more here.

2023: Blocking a DDoS attack

domain The Reg.ru name registrar has blocked a long-term DDoS-attack new type. It lasted 72 hours, and the total capacity attacks was more than 40 GB/s. Protection systems - hostingprovider recorded the participation of more than 40,000 unique IP addresses. The botnet company announced this on November 8, 2023.

At the same time, almost 10,000 of the hosting provider's own IP addresses were attacked. With the help of a special utility, any device could join the attack,, and computer server even. virtual hosting The cyber attack did not have a significant impact on client sites, all the company's services worked normally.

The DDoS attack was aimed at the main services of the company: cloud services Reg., cloud VPS, dedicated servers and virtual hosting. At some of the joints with operators and inside the infrastructure of the hosting provider, an increased level of incoming traffic bandwidth was observed, which caused periodic short-term losses before the main filtering system was turned on. Subsequently, individual filtering of illegitimate traffic was configured and launched on ports 3306, 5432, 27017. The level of filtering was gradually reduced, and filtering was completely disabled.

Despite the fact that there was some degradation of the network, only a small part of client sites could feel this. Contrary to the massive nature of this type of cyber attack, there was a small amount of malicious traffic per IP address, and there was no significant impact. It is more difficult for small hosting providers to fight off such attacks, since there may not be enough capacity at the entrance even after cleaning by external suppliers, the press service noted Рег.ру.

The Reg.ru is configured to automatically protect against DDoS attacks. The security system uses a series of hardware and software systems that sequentially analyze the passing traffic, detecting anomalies and non-standard network activity.

2021

Sanctions of Ukraine

In early November 2021, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced new sanctions against Russian companies and institutions, including:

• Information security company Group-IB;
• Reg.Ru Domain Name Registrar

Read more here.

"Ru-Web. Investment "became the owner of Reg.ru

On October 13, 2021, Ru-Web LLC . Investments "told TAdviser about the closure of the transaction for the purchase of 100% of the REG.RU group of companies The amount of the transaction between was not disclosed.

{{quote 'author = said Vladimir Tatarchuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Proxima Capital Group. |

Our strategy for the digital direction of business is to create a market leader in providing comprehensive digital services for enterprises small and medium-sized businesses in a "one-stop shop." Business in the sphere domains hosting and sites is the point of entry into this market. We studied the foreign experience of building such a business and see that Russia there are opportunities for the growth of this niche,}}

{{quote 'author = noted Nikolay Molibog, General Director of RBC PJSC |

The creation of an ecosystem based on the domain business has a number of competitive advantages. Choosing a domain name for a future project is one of the first things a budding entrepreneur does. We see inspiring opportunities to build a digital ecosystem of services: help entrepreneurs form their presence on the Internet, better understand their customers and manage interaction with them, promote their brand and sell products in all modern digital channels.}}

{{quote 'author = narrated by Alexey Korolyuk, co-founder of Reg.ru. |

In 15 years, my partners and I have managed to build a company from scratch that has become one of the leaders in the Russian Internet infrastructure market. The transaction opens the next stage in the development of the company, which can create a different quality of business, based on current services and drivers. It is these goals that shareholders pursue Reg.ru. We wish them well along the way,}}

The exclusive consultant to the Reg.ru on the deal was Aspring Capital.

Work stoppage due to data center accident in Moscow amid bad weather

On June 28, 2021, the largest domain and hosting provider Russia REG.ru suspended work due to an accident data center in. To Moscow This happened against the background of bad weather in the capital and. Moscow region

At the site on the territory of the Federal State University of the Russian National Research Center, the Kurchatov Institute, an accident occurred at the main and reserve power supplies, a backup power system was involved, - said in a message on the REG.ru page on Twitter, published 14:16 Moscow time.

A little more than an hour later, a company on the same social network announced the start of work on restoring food. It was not specified at that time when it was planned to restore performance. It was also not reported that it was specifically out of order at the data center.

As of June 28, 2021, over 3.3 million domains are in service at the REG.ru, the company registers every second domain in the Russian Federation. Provider customers can register domains in more than 750 international and national domain zones.

On June 28, 2021, a heavy downpour took place in Moscow, several streets and metro stations were flooded in the city, traffic was stopped on the sections of the Filevskaya and Kaluga-Riga lines. Leading specialist of the Phobos weather center Yevgeny Tishkovets called this rain a "super shower," which was accompanied by a squally wind up to 21-26 m/s.^[1]

Claim against Reg.Ru Do­meny khos­ting LLC for using a similar corporate name

On May 18, 2021 it became known that LLC Registrar of the Domain Names РЕГ.РУ filed a lawsuit against LLC РЕГ.РУ Domeny hosting. The parties challenge registration of the reduced signature name "РЕГ.РУ". LLC Registrar of the Domain Names РЕГ.РУ asks to forbid the defendant to use the trade name similar to extent of mixture to its trademarks, and demands compensation of 500 thousand rubles.

As Pavel Patrikeev, head of the legal department of the hosting provider and domain registrar of REG.RU, explained, that the defendant is a legal clone of a company that is part of the REG.RU of group of companies (cloning the specific name of the company to a comma and duplication of OKVED obviously indicates a fraudulent scheme).

'We identified him and first sent a claim asking him to stop the breach. But since the answer was not received, that is, the resolution of the issue in pre-trial order is impossible, we went to court. As a large brand, we defend our rights, including through judicial methods, "said Pavel Patrikeev. - The amount of compensation is calculated based on the nature of the violation, brand fame, judicial practice and the opportunities provided by law. "

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, REG.RU Domains Hosting LLC was registered in March 2021. The authorized capital of the defendant is, according to GERUL, 50 thousand rubles.

"In the case under consideration, we are talking, firstly, about a direct violation of paragraph 3 of Article 1474 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, according to which it is not allowed for a legal entity to use a corporate name identical to or similar to the corporate name of another legal entity to a degree of confusion, if these legal entities carry out similar activities and the corporate name of the second legal entity was included in the unified state register of legal entities earlier than the corporate name of the first legal entity. The abbreviated names and type of main activity of both companies are completely artistic according to the information from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, namely REG.RU LLC and OKVED 62.01 Computer Software Development. It is surprising that the registration authority in principle allowed such registration. Therefore, the likelihood of banning the use of this name is very high, "said Alexandra Nechaeva, a lawyer at Rödl & Partner[2]"

Launch of fully Cyrillic email addresses

At the end of March 2021, hosting provider Reg.ru announced the launch of a postal system that supports fully Cyrillic email addresses. The company is implementing this initiative in conjunction with the Поддерживаю.РФ project. Read more here.

2020: Opening the registration of internationalized domain names

April 21, 2020 hosting-provider domains and the REG.RU registrar opened the registration of internationalized domain names (IDN) with Unicode - symbols of non-Latin alphabets. Now users can register addresses for sites with characters,, Kazakh, Ukrainian Armenian Catalan,, and Greek Japanese dozens of other alphabets. Such addresses may be of interest to owners of local businesses, as well as creators of national cultural projects in various countries.

You can register domains with symbols of non-Latin national alphabets in 72 domain zones, each with its own set of characters available for registration, established by the rules. The largest set in.COM is more than 80 alphabets. Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Belarusian, Greek, Japanese and many others are available.

Restrictions on the number of characters in a unicode domain name correspond to the rules of each specific zone: for example, in.RU this is at least 2 and no more than 63 characters. Characters should be read in the punycode view. Registration conditions and prices of domains with symbols of national alphabets are the same as for addresses with Latin. Examples of possible domains for registration in different languages: խնդրում.com, მზე.com, すべての人の健康.store, और.net, дүкен123.com.

The characteristic of each domain zone can be viewed in the REG.RU domain zone encyclopedia.

To register a domain, you must enter [1] the desired domain name in the lookup string. If it is free, select it and go to registration and payment for the service.

Domains with national symbols allow our clients, anywhere in the world, to register an address in a variety of languages. The solution is suitable for those who want to promote business in a certain country and emphasize its local affiliation, launch a cultural or non-profit project. As of April 2020, REG.RU serves more than 366 thousand IDN domains, most of which are Cyrillic. We are confident that this number will soon grow due to the increase in addresses in other languages, comments Alexey Korolyuk, CEO of hosting provider and REG.RU domain registrar

2019: Teaming up with Naunet

On August 5, 2019, REG.RU announced the accession of the registrar Naunet to it. The process involves transferring the entire customer base and moving employees. Read more here.

2017

Owners

According to the Kontur.Fokus database, as of November 2017, Philip Gross-Dneprov and Alexey Korolyuk each owned 40.3% of Reg.ru LLC, Valery Studennikov had 14.4% of the company. Another 5% belonged to the main owner of Softline IT holding Igor Borovikov.

Purchase of DomainParking.ru

The Russian registrar and hosting provider REG.RU in November 2017 acquired a domain parking service DomainParking.ru. REG.RU plans to intensively develop the service while maintaining an independent brand.

Following the completion of the transaction, 100% of the DomainParking.ru belongs to REG.RU. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The project will continue to work under the DomainParking.ru brand, and its creator Pavel Gross will retain the position of mentor and visionary.

REG.RU has enough resources to strengthen the development of DomainParking.ru in all areas. In the near future, a number of features and features will open up to users of the service. We are always open to dialogue with market professionals and are ready to listen to their opinions and wishes, which means that as a result of innovations, customers will only benefit, - commented on the deal, REG.RU CEO Alexei Korolyuk.

Creating a DomainParking.ru, I laid down all my experience and wanted to make a project for domain market professionals, and I succeeded. I am very glad that the project was transferred to the management of REG.RU. This is a registrar who has always treated domainers with respect. I am sure that REG.RU will be able to implement modern technological solutions for the secondary domain market using parking, "said DomainParking.ru founder Pavel Gross.

REG.RU is an active participant in the market for the consolidation of hosting services in Russia. Over the past 3 years, 7 transactions have been carried out with the participation of the company (100MB, Logol, Agava, Renter, Mne.ru, Telehouse Caravan, GlobaTel). The Company expands its investment interests. The first in this series of transactions was the purchase of a parking service for domains DomainParking.ru.

2016

The number of REG.RU customers exceeded one million

According to the analytical resource Statonline.ru, the registrar ranks first in the number of registered domains with shares of more than 30% in the national zones.RU and.RF. In the segment of hosting services REG.RU also owns the largest shares among providers - 11.2% (.RU) and 13.8% (.RF). The company's official representative offices are located in 31 cities of Russia and the CIS. And the geography of customers extends far beyond Russia and neighboring countries.

The total number of REG.RU customers has already exceeded one million. The company's millionth client was entrepreneur Sergei Mironov from the city of Nyagan, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, who registered the PODELKI-N.RU domain. The domain houses a store of original gifts - lightboxes, photo frames and toppers, which Sergey makes himself. The store is just preparing for an active launch, but on the site you can already familiarize yourself with the assortment and make an order with delivery to anywhere in Russia.

Wave of migration from Ru-Center to Reg.ru

In April 2016, Pavel Gross-Dneprov cited statistics on the number of domains for April and March 2016 for a number of Russian registrars. All of them received some positive number of new registrations. The exception is Ru-Center. This registrar owned by RBC lost more than 40,000 domains in March 2016, more than 6,000 more in 5 days of April (note: there are other registrars owned by RBC on the chart, they have normal growth, instead of a dramatic fall). Most of the March registrations fell on REG.RU - charts of the fall in Ru-Center, and the increase in the number of registrations in Reg.ru, in fact, "mirror" for each other.

2014: Servicing more than 2 million domains

REG.RU serves more than domains 2,000,000 for the summer of 2014. Takes 1st place in the TOP hosting-. providers Russia Every second domain Russia in is registered in REG.RU. The company's offices are located in 30 cities of Russia, Ukraine and countries (CIS including). { Moldova hide} is hidden, since it is duplicated: REG.RU offices are located in more than 30 cities of Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. {/hide}

For 2014, REG.RU is the leader among Russian domain registrars and hosting providers. The company offers registration in 420 + national and international domain zones. In 2014, REG.RU significantly strengthened its position in the hosting services segment and took first place in the.RU zone among domestic providers, increasing its market share to almost 9%. In the zone. RF, the company is traditionally among the leaders in hosting sites and continues to confidently occupy first place, reaching a market share of 12.3% in December.

REG.RU provides registration in 480 international domain zones, as well as provides hosting, mail, VPS/VDS, physical server rentals and many others. The company remains the leader in the number of new domain registrations in the national zones of.RU and.RF - in 2014, REG.RU accounted for from 37% to 50% of new registrations every month. One of the priorities for the registrar in the past year was the promotion of new gTLDs - new industry, thematic, geographical and other domain zones opened within the framework of the large-scale ICANN program. By the end of 2014, 450 new domain zones were opened under the program, in more than half of them registration with REG.RU is available, including promising Cyrillic domains.MOSKVA,.DETI,.SITE and.ONLINE.

2013: 1.9 million domains on service

In August 2013, REG.RU became the largest registrar in the.RU domain. By the end of the year, the company crossed the milestone of 1,900,000 domain names for maintenance.

2012

Ununiting with Masterhost

In March 2012, RBC daily reported that the merger of the hosting provider Masterhost and the registrar REG.RU suspended. The shareholders of Masterhost changed their minds about selling the business.

The fact that the domain name registrar REG.RU and the hosting provider Masterhost have not yet managed to complete the deal to merge these two assets was told by several top managers of large Russian telecom companies, and also confirmed the minority holder of Masterhost shares. The unification process was to begin in January 2012. And plans to restructure assets in Masterhost and REG.RU began to be prepared after the signing of the merger agreement in August 2011, RBC daily interlocutors say.

While the deal was being prepared, the ownership structure in the Activist company, which owns the majority stake in Masterhost, was also changing. One of the two main shareholders of Activist, Yevgeny Benevolensky, persuaded partner Leonid Filatov to sell his stake in the company. As a result of this transaction, Filatov received monetary compensation and shares of OpenStat (his share in this project was brought to 100%), RBC daily interlocutors report. Yevgeny Benevolensky, who gained control of Activist, and a group of minority shareholders of Masterhost decided to develop the project on their own, sources say.

However, the hosting provider's economic performance began to decline. This is evidenced by the closure of the St. Petersburg office of the company (all clients of the provider received the corresponding letter). The official statement of the company says that the office will stop working on April 1, 2012, and the support of St. Petersburg clients "will be fully carried out by employees of the main office in Moscow." The press service of the company explained the closure of the St. Petersburg representative office by its "economic inefficiency." According to one of the experts in the hosting services market, the share of the previously largest operator Masterhost in the market has now decreased to 6% in the segment.

Leonid Filatov said that he no longer has anything to do with Masterhost's business, does not occupy any posts in the company and is not aware of what is happening inside it at the moment. Masterhost could not answer the question about the thwarted deal.

The revenue of the combined company at the end of 2012, as expected, would exceed 1 billion rubles. Alexey Korolyuk was to become the general director of the new structure, and Leonid Filatov was to take up the strategic development of the company.

REG.RU at this time is the second largest domain registrar in Russia after Ru-Center. Co-owners of the company are Alexey Korolyuk (42%), Philip Gross (42%) and Valery Studennikov (16%). The financial performance was not disclosed. Masterhost was considered the largest hosting provider in Russia.

Accreditation of the international registrar to ICANN

In 2012, REG.RU received accreditation from the international registrar at ICANN and launched an English-language version of the site - REG.COM. According to the results of 2012, the number of domains for service in REG.RU reached 1,500,000.

The first registrar in the.RF domain

In 2012, REG.RU became the first accredited registrar of the national top-level domain.RF. The.RF domain popularization program occupies a special place in the company's activities.

2011

Status of the personal data operator

In June 2011, REG.RU received the status of a personal data operator, which allows you to process personal information of customers at the highest level of security in accordance with federal law N 152-FZ, with the right to process personal information in an automated way.

Privilege Club launch

In August 2011, the registrar was the first in the Russian domain and hosting market to open a privileged Privilege Club for its clients, which makes it possible to use not only discounts and various bonuses when ordering services, but also unique services not previously presented on the market.

Preparing Association with Masterhost

On August 23, 2011, it became known that Masterhost and Reg.ru were preparing an announcement of the merger. The association is planned, confirmed the general director of Masterhost Leonid Filatov and Reg.ru Alexei Korolyuk, stressing: the shareholders will make the final decision in early September 2011^[3]. If there is a deal, then cash-strapped, Korolyuk clarifies: both companies will enter the holding, in which shares will be distributed between their shareholders. As of August 2011, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, 45% of the shares of Masterhost CJSC belong to Filatov (through Activist CJSC), another 45% to Yevgeny Benevolsky. 42% of "Reg.ru" from Alexei Korolyuk and Philip Gross, 16% - from Valery Studennikov.

The goal is to create a large player who will take leading positions in the hosting markets, where the leader is Masterhost, and domain registration, where Reg.ru has a strong position, explains Korolyuk.

This is the second major market transaction in 2011. In March 2011, Hosting Community (part of RBC) announced the purchase of the largest domain registrar Ru-Center. The transaction amount is up to $35 million. Together, Masterhost and Reg.ru will occupy about 30% of the hosting and name registration market and will be able to compete on equal terms with Hosting Community, says the participant in the deal. This is the second largest player, agrees the commercial director of Hosting Community Aleksei Skvortsov: in the hosting market it will take 20%, and in Hosting Community 25%. Ru-Center's share in the domain registration market in the.ru zone at this time is 33%, and in the.rf zone - 43%, says Olga Alexandrova-Myasina, representative of the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet; in "Reg.ru" - 18 and 22%, respectively.

On September 6, 2011, a press conference was held on the unification of companies.

In September 2011, REG.RU crossed the milestone of a million domains on service.

REG.RU became the leader in the volume of registrations in national domains in 2011.

2010: Over 1 million domains on service

On June 7, 2010, the company registered a half-million domain in the.RU zone under its service. At this time, it is one of the leaders in the domain name registration and hosting market.

According to the results of 2010, the share of Reg.ru in the number of accepted domain names in the national domains of.RU and.RF is 20%, while every third new domain in the Russian Federation is registered in REG.RU. Along with Russian national domain zones, REG.RU offers a wide range of international and national domain zones - more than 150, including domains of countries, Europe Asia America, the CIS and others. In total, according to the results of 2010, the accredited REG.RU registrar has more than 1,000,000 domain names.

2009: First registrar in the area of the RF

On November 2, 2009, REG.RU became the first domain name registrar in Russia to receive accreditation for domain registration in the.RF zone - the first national Cyrillic domain zone.

2007: Beginning of domain registration in the.RU and.SU zones

In 2007, it received accreditation and began domain registration in the.RU and.SU zones.

2006: Founding of the company by three partners

REG.RU was founded on May 25, 2006 by Philip Gross-Dneprov, Alexei Korolyuk and Valery Studennikov.

Services

The company offers the following services:

• Registration in 480 + national and international domain zones;
• Wholesale domain registration;
• Domain Store;
• Domain broker;
• Domain rentals;
• Premium domains;
• Whois and Whois's history of change;
• Domain name protection;
• Legal services in the field of domain names;
• Hosting sites;
• Virtual Dedicated Servers (VPS);
• Physical servers (Dedicated);
• Server administration;
• Renting or hosting servers;
• Free DNS servers and DNS support
• Cloudy hosting;
• Free mail;
• Gmail, Google Apps for domain;

• Windows VPS;

• VPS on SSD;
• Jelastic;
• Yandex.Mail;
• Business Mail.ru;
• Automatic SEO promotion;
• Site monitoring;
• Site security audit;
• DDoS protection;
• Protection against spam and viruses;
• Personal data hiding services - "Private person" and "Total Private Person";
• websites Wix and Parallels Web Presence Builder, Ecwid designers;
• Ready-made solutions on CMS Wordpress Joomla 1C-Bitrix;
• Constructor of goMobi mobile sites;
• SSL certificates.

Unique REG.RU projects include:

StatOnline.ru is an information and statistical resource that uses data from the WHOIS service and allows you to receive a variety of data on domain zones.RU,.SU and.RF.

REG.API is a software interface for access to all functions of the Personal Account, through a standardized language.

REG.RU partner program - allows you to register domain names at special favorable tariffs and order other services with discounts. By becoming a partner, you can discover new professional opportunities, promising market horizons and get privileged service.

REG.PANEL is a program developed specifically for wholesale customers and allows you to create your own dealer network for registering domains in the main domain zones. An English version of the site has been created for foreign customers.

REG.Premium is a unique service for selecting premium domains.

SKIDKI.REG.RU is an exclusive loyalty program developed specifically for REG.RU customers.

Awards

In 2011, REG.RU was nominated in the Eighth National Award ceremony for its contribution to the development of the Russian segment of the Internet "Runet Prize" in the nomination "For contribution to the development of the.RF domain."

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