The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ has summed up the results of 2023 for Russian national domains. At the end of the year, .RU became the undisputed leader in growth rates among all ccTLDs. Over the past year, .RU grew by 506,024 domains (+10.3%) and took 5th place in the world ranking of country domains.
According to the Coordination Center, at the end of December there were 5,439,137 domains in the .RU zone, 85% of which were registered by Russian citizens and organizations. In total, 1,709,718 new domains were registered in the .RU zone last year, and at the end of the year the registration rate almost doubled - from January to September, an average of 123,000 domains were registered per month, and from October to December – 201,000.
In the Cyrillic .РФ, there were 768,883 domain names by the end of last year; over the year the domain grew by 92,769 domain names or 13.7%, which is an extremely high figure. The .РФ retained its leadership among internationalized national top-level domains, ranking first in the number of domain names among all Cyrillic domains. In 2023, 244,266 domain names were registered in .РФ.
The .RU and .РФ domain zones have shown their stability and ensured stable functioning of Russian websites against the backdrop of a sharp increase in phishing attacks. In 2023, competent organizations sent 54,977 requests to registrars, which is 3 times more than in 2022 (16,324 requests), and almost 90% of them were related to phishing. Based on the results of consideration of these requests, 54,135 malicious domains were blocked, while the response speed remains the highest in the world - for example, in May-December 2023, it averaged 21.5 hours from the moment a complaint was filed to the blocking of a malicious domain.
According to the Director of the Coordination Center Andrey Vorobyev, the main drivers of the growth of Russian domain zones were the transfer of sites to Russian jurisdiction under the pressure of sanctions, as well as the emergence of a large number of new projects aimed at the Russian audience.
“The trend towards increasing popularity of national domain zones will continue in 2024, and the commercialization of the Russian segment will also grow. For us, this means that even more attention will need to be paid to security and countering attackers trying to steal money and user data,” he said.
About the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ
The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ performs the functions of a national registry and has the authority to develop rules for registering domain names in the .RU and .РФ domains, accreditation of registrars and research of promising projects related to the development of Russian top-level domains.
The mission of the Coordination Center is to ensure the development of the Internet in Russia in the interests of the national and global Internet communities. Center websites:
https://cctld.ru/en/ and https://кц.рф
