.RU Domain Ranked Sixth in ccTLDs

Views:3853 Time:2014-04-03 16:24:01 Author: NiceNIC.NET

The Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, responsible of the administration of .RU and .РФ extensions, is now approaching 5 million domain name registrations.

.RU currently holds the 6th position in list of biggest ccTLD抯 after .DE , .TK , .UK , .CN and .NL, with 15.3 million domain names for .DE, 15.1 million domain names for .TK , 10.3 million domains for .UK, 6.4 million domain names for .CN and 5.2 million domain names for .NL. .RU is also a leader in terms of growth rates among the biggest ccTLDs.

The fourth million .RU domain name was registered on 17 September 2012, while the third million .RU domain name was registered registered on the night of 24/25 September 2010.

Three years ago, .RU got a little brother, IDN TLD .РФ. Since then, the Internet market in Russia started growing twice as fast: by approximately 1,000-1,500 new domain names daily in each domain zone.

Up to date there are 4,929,310 .RU domain names registered.