Russia’s ccTLD is celebrating its 15th anniversary today (Tuesday). In
15 years the Russian ccTLD has existed, it has reached two million
registered domain names with some 40 million internet users in the
country. Today there are 2,027,086 domain names registered.
As with many ccTLDs that are growing rapidly, it took some years to reach the first million domain names. In the case of .RU, it took 13 years and the milestone was achieved on September 17, 2007. In the 19 months since another one million domain names have been registered.
The report notes “Russia plans to launch a national domain name .rf - Russian Federation - written in the Cyrillic script instead of Latin. The domain is aimed at raising the importance of Russian as a global language.”
The article also says “Russian is also the ninth most popular language among Internet users with 38 million people according to data available from the Internet World Stats site.”
More information is available from:
- en.rian.ru/russia/20090407/120957706.html
- rian.ru/society/20090407/167351631.html [Russian]
- cctld.ru/en/domens_ru/stat.php [Statistics on .RU domain name registrations]
To register your .RU domain name , check out EuroDNS here.