.ru is the country-specific Internet Domain (ccTLD) of the Russian Federation.

Russia is the largest country in the world and has the world's ninth-largest population. Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia (including Abkhazia and South Ossetia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It is also close to the United States (Alaska state), Sweden, and Japan across relatively small stretches of water (the Bering Strait, the Baltic Sea, and La Pérouse Strait, respectively).

.ru domains are especially favourable for companies, NGOs and private persons, who have economical, political or cultural relations to Russia.

No special eligibility criteria is applicable for .ru domains.

General eligibility criteria are:

• Applicant has to be of full legal age and fully contractually capable.
• Applicant has to provide complete and accurate contact data, including a valid street address - no PO box adress - and a valid email address.
• Applicant has to comply with current laws and regulations when applying for a certain domain name - especially concerning trademark rights, rights of names and other lawful rights.
• Applicant has to comply with the rules and regulations of the relevant registry.
• Applicant has to act bona fides.

No IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support available for .ru domains.

Only ASCII characters are supported.

• ASCII
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