The Coordintaion Center for TLD .RU ,responsible for the administration fo .RU extension,is approaching 3.5 million domain name registrations under .RU . .RU takes the 6th position in the global ranking of CCTLDs worldwide and make .RU a leader in terms of growth rates among the biggest CCTLDs .

.RU turned this year 17 years .

Last year .RU got a little brother , IDN TLD .РФ. From then on the Internet in Russia started growing twice as fast: by approximately 1,000-1,500 new domain names daily in each domain zone.

The 3rd million .ru domain name was registered on the night of 24/25 September 2010 .

Up to date,there are 3,348,633 .