In the Russian national domain registered more than 1.6 million. name. Most actively acquire new domain names, citizens and organizations working in the Russian regions.
zone. RU one of the five most rapidly developing areas of the national domain. The previous record of 1.5 million. registered domain was registered on June 25, just two months ago. At the present time, despite the seasonal decline in business activity, on average, every day. RU appears more than 1.5 thousand. new domain names. However, we can not exclude the influence of cybersquatters - according to the stat. nic. ru, in the national zone delegated to less than 90% of all domains.
Less than half (47% ) of all registrations accounted for RU-CENTER. Analysts of the RU-CENTER, along with the increasing number of registered domain names continues to decentralization, including the owners of the domain name appears more and more people and organizations from the regions of Russia. Most active in St. Petersburg ( 7% of all domains), Moscow Region (6.5% ), and large industrial centers of Russia. Approximately 2.2% of the territorial domain ' owns ' the Samara region by 1.7% - Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk, followed by Rostov, Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod region, as well as the Krasnodar region - in every region of about 1% (hereinafter - the light . More than 0.5% of the total number of domains registered there in the Republic of Tatarstan, in Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky Krai and Volgograd region. Other regions are lagging behind those listed. The share of non-residents account for 10% of all registrations prior years did not exceed 4%. The share of Moscow now has 'only' 37.5% of all domain zones. RU - almost twice less than before.
In the global ranking of national domain zones, leading Germany ( in the zone. DE - 12 million. domains), in second place - China ( CN, about 8 million. names), Ahead of the UK (in the zone. UK - less than 7 million. domains). During the first quarter of 2008 broke the million mark domains of Canada (. CA ) and France (. FR), in July, three million were registered in the name of the Dutch domain. NL.