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RU-CENTER was founded in 2000, at the beginning of the formation of a distributed domain name registration in Russia. The progenitor of the RU-CENTER was the Russian Institute for Public Networks,<ref>http://www.ripn.net/en/index.html</ref> an organization that supported the origins of Internet technologies in Russia. Today, the company supports more than 3 million of domain names, serves as the registrar for more than 30% of .ru domains, 60% of .su domains, and 60% of .pФ domains. They have an extensive partner network, with more than 6,000 partners in Russia and abroad.<ref>User Submitted</ref>

RU-CENTER was founded in 2000, at the beginning of the formation of a distributed domain name registration in Russia. The progenitor of the RU-CENTER was the Russian Institute for Public Networks,<ref>http://www.ripn.net/en/index.html</ref> an organization that supported the origins of Internet technologies in Russia. Today, the company supports more than 3 million of domain names, serves as the registrar for more than 30% of .ru domains, 60% of .su domains, and 60% of .pФ domains. They have an extensive partner network, with more than 6,000 partners in Russia and abroad.<ref>User Submitted</ref>

In 2010–2011, under the New gTLD Program, RU-CENTER initiated the introduction of the domains [[.moscow]] / [[.mockba]]<ref>http://domainmoscow.org</ref> for the needs of the Russian capital, as well as domains for the cultural and linguistic communities represented in the country (project RUCLID).<ref>http://ruclid.org</ref> The idea of creating a domain for Moscow's cultural and linguistic communities have become the first Russian start-up planned under the New gTLD Program.

In 2010–2011, under the New gTLD Program, RU-CENTER initiated the introduction of the domains [[.moscow]]/[[.mockba]]<ref>http://domainmoscow.org</ref> for the needs of the Russian capital, as well as domains for the cultural and linguistic communities represented in the country (project RUCLID).<ref>http://ruclid.org</ref> The idea of creating a domain for Moscow's cultural and linguistic communities have become the first Russian start-up planned under the New gTLD Program.

This company is recognized as an expert on the domain name market, and publishes [[Domain Names Magazine]]<ref>http://dn.nic.ru/en</ref>, the only industry edition in Russia. In addition, RU-CENTER created and maintains the resource Info.nic.ru,<ref>http://info.nic.ru</ref> which is the most popular Russian site devoted to domain name industry news. Among the company's other information projects are a database of Russian [[IP]] addresses<ref>http://ipgeobase.ru</ref> and a statistics website about the registration of the domain names .ru, .su, and .pФ.

This company is recognized as an expert on the domain name market, and publishes [[Domain Names Magazine]],<ref>http://dn.nic.ru/en</ref> the only industry edition in Russia. In addition, RU-CENTER created and maintains the resource Info.nic.ru,<ref>http://info.nic.ru</ref> which is the most popular Russian site devoted to domain name industry news. Among the company's other information projects are a database of Russian [[IP]] addresses<ref>http://ipgeobase.ru</ref> and a statistics website about the registration of the domain names .ru, .su, and .pФ.

RU-CENTER is actively involved in the global internet community, supporting the [[ICANN]] meetings and other international events. RU-CENTER experts take part in ICANN [[Working Groups]].

RU-CENTER is actively involved in the global internet community, supporting the [[ICANN]] meetings and other international events. RU-CENTER experts take part in ICANN [[Working Groups]].