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.ru

Introduced	7 April 1994; 30 years ago (1994-04-07)
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Coordination Center for TLD RU
Intended use	Entities connected with Russia
Actual use	Very popular in Russia
Registered domains	5,381,137 (January 2018)[1]
Structure	Registrations are permitted directly at the second level; third-level registrations are also possible under the rule of the official registry
Documents	Documents
Dispute policies	None
DNSSEC	yes
Registry website	cctld.ru/en/

.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.

The company RELCOM also proposes third-level registrations beneath various second-level domains such as .msk.ru (Moscow), while Macomnet Telcom^[2] proposes third-level registrations beneath .int.ru simultaneously.