.ru

Also known as dot ru

.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.

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".ru" is the internet address ending for websites in Russia, similar to how ".com" is used for many commercial sites. It was created in 1994 and remains the primary way Russian websites are identified online, though Russia also has a newer option using Cyrillic characters called ".рф".

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Key facts

Top level domain.name: .ru
Top level domain.background: CCF
Top level domain.image: DotRu domain logo.png
Top level domain.type: Country code top-level domain
Top level domain.status: Active
Top level domain.registry: Coordination Center for TLD RU
Top level domain.intendeduse: Entities connected with Russia
Top level domain.actualuse: Very popular in Russia
Top level domain.disputepolicy: None
Top level domain.registereddomains: 5,381,137
Top level domain.dateregistereddomains: January 2018
Top level domain.structure: Registrations are permitted directly at the second level; third-level registrations are also possible under the rule of the official registry
Top level domain.document: Documents
Top level domain.dnssec: yes

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Wikidata facts

Official website: cctld.ru
Image: Russia stamp 2019 № 2463.jpg

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inception: 1994-04-07
Commons category: .ру

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Background
Development of .ru
Second-level domains
Generic second-level domains
Second-level domains for federal subjects of Russia
Other geographic second-level domains
See also
References
External links

.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.