Type: Private
Industry: Registrar
Ownership: RosBusiness Consulting
Headquarters: Russia, 125315, Moscow,
Leningradsky prospekt, d.74, korp.4
Country: Russia
Businesses: RU-NIC,JSC,NIC Media LLC
Email: ru-cont[at]nic.ru
Website: NIC.ru
Blog: RU Blog
Facebook: RU-CENTER


RU-CENTER — Russia's leading registrar and hosting provider, the largest registrar for domains RU, SU, РФ. The company provides a full range of registration services and domain names support.

RU-CENTER was founded in 2000, at the beginning of the formation of a distributed domain name registration in Russia. The progenitor of RU-CENTER was the Russian Institute for Public Networks [1] - an organization that stood at the origins of the Internet technologies in Russia. RU-CENTER - one of the oldest domain registrars in the country. Today the company supports more than 3 million of domain names, serves as the registrar for more than 30% of domains .RU, 60% of domains .SU and 60% of domains .РФ.

RU-CENTER has an extensive partner network - the company has over 6 000 partners in Russia and abroad. As the market leader, RU-CENTER launched Russia's first auction services (2007) and domain names parking (2008). In 2010 – 2011 under the New gTLD Program RU-CENTER has initiated the introduction of the domains .MOSCOW / .МОСКВА[2] for the needs of the Russian capital, as well as domains for the cultural and linguistic communities represented in the country (project RUCLID [3]). The ideas of creating a domain for Moscow's cultural and linguistic communities have become the first Russian start-up planned under the New gTLD Program.

RU-CENTER - a recognized expert in the domain name market. The company publishes Domain names magazine[4], the only industry edition in Russia. In addition, RU-CENTER created and maintaines the resource Info.nic.ru[5] - the most popular Russian site devoted to the news of the domain industry. Among other company's information projects are the database of the Russian IP-addresses[6], the statistics website about the registration of the domain names .RU, .SU, .РФ.

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

Supported TLDs edit

RU-CENTER is fully accredited with multiple organisations for registration of respective TLDs. These organizations and the TLDs supported by RU-CENTER are:

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