On November 5, 2015, the five-millionth domain name was registered in the .RU zone. The previous point in 4,000,000 domain names in the .RU was reached 3 years ago, in September, 2012.
roominstyle.ru registered by REG.RU at 3:15 pm on November 5, 2015 became the 5-millionth domain name. roominstyle.ru registrar will give a memorable gift from Coordination Center.
.RU takes the 6th place among the world's national domains in the number of registered names and is on the 10th among all gTLDs. 94% of domain names are delegated, 22% of them are registered by legal entities, 78% – by individuals. 46% of domain names are websites, another 5% are used for a redirect.
"5,000,000 domain names in .RU is a serious point we all had been looking forward to. Despite not the best economic situation, we have reached this rate. This means that the Russian Internet will develop rapidly. More than 870,000 domain names are in the second Russian national Cyrillic domain .РФ, there is a registration in new Russian domains .ДЕТИ, .МОСКВА, .MOSCOW, .TATAR, .РУС, and others. So, the general number of the Russian domain space is coming to 6 million names", – said Andrey Vorobyev, the Coordination Center CEO. .RU was delegated to Russia by ICANN on April 7, 1994. The first million was registered in 2007. One and a half more years later, the zone expanded twice, and three times by September, 2010. In September, 2012, there were 4,000,000 names in the domain.
33 accredited registrars work in .RU today. REG.RU (market share in the domain makes 31%), Ru-Center (29%), R01 (16%), Ragtime (7%), and SaleNames (5,5%) are the largest of them.
