.RU has reached the 3.5 million active registrations on October 18,2011 . .RU outran both .CN and .EU and rose from the 6th to the 4th place in the global ccTLD ranking .
Last year .RU got a little brother , IDN TLD .РФ.Less than 3 weeks ago,.РФ hit 900,000 registered domain names only 11 months from the launch of the open registration.This way, .РФ has managed to be on the 15th position by the number of registered domain in the European rating of biggest ccTLDs.The 3rd million .ru domain name was registered on the night of 24/25 September 2010 .
There are 3,504,611 .RU domains registered up to date .