Russia Domains: .ru, .рф, .su and More

Russia has three national zones, .ru, .рф and .su; with the other Russia-related endings, Atak Domain offers ten, and they fall into four groups:

• National zones .ru, .рф and .su: since 1 September 2026, registration and renewal require ESIA identity verification.
• Third-level zones .com.ru, .net.ru and .org.ru inside .ru: the zone operator sets the conditions.
• .ru.com: addresses inside .com with no identity verification.
• Themed endings: the city ending .moscow, .tatar for the community connected with Tatar language and culture, and .рус for the Russian-speaking community.

Yes: since 1 September 2026, registering or renewing a name in .ru, .рф or .su requires the administrator to pass identification through a verified Gosuslugi (ESIA) account. The same check applies to nameserver, administrator and registrar changes. According to the Coordination Center, Russian citizens and companies, foreigners with temporary residence, a residence permit or a work patent, and foreign companies with an accredited branch in Russia can pass it; a company must be registered on the portal, with the employee responsible for domains added to its account. If you cannot pass the check, the Center advises handing administration to a person or organisation with a confirmed account, which Atak Domain's trustee service does for .ru.

With the trustee service, Atak Domain's ESIA-verified representative account in Russia is recorded as administrator of the .ru name, while the domain stays under your control. Renewals and technical operations run through that account, so you can keep using and renewing the name without Russian status. If your name is with another registrar, move it first with a domain transfer, then activate the trustee service.

The law took effect on 1 September 2026, but the transition ends on 18 January 2027 at the latest. According to the Coordination Center, registrars accredited before that date keep accepting applications without interruption until they move onto the government list, so the exact switchover depends on your registrar. If you have no Russian status, use this window to prepare and set up the trustee arrangement before your renewal date.

All three are Russia's national zones, and since 1 September 2026 ESIA verification applies to each of them. .ru is the main Latin-script zone; .рф is the Cyrillic zone of the same Coordination Center, and its names are written in Cyrillic only. .su is the 1990 zone run by ROSNIIROS; according to the registry, it holds more than 112,000 names, about 78% of them in active use. In all three, registration runs for one year and is renewed annually.

.ru.com is not a country extension but a set of addresses beneath a record inside .com, operated by CentralNic Ltd. It links a name with Russia while still ending in .com. To register, you only represent that you have the right to use the name; there is no ESIA or other identity verification. Trademark disputes run under CentralNic's CDRP, and English law applies.

No; Google treats new top-level domains such as .moscow and .tatar like other generic domains, even when they look region-specific. .рус is also listed by IANA as a generic top-level domain. The country signal comes from country-code endings such as .ru, which Google says give a strong signal that a site is intended for a specific country. For visibility in Russia, make .ru or .рф your main address and use themed endings to speak to your audience.

Search your name on the domain name search page, add the free ending to your cart and complete the order. For .ru without Russian status, add the trustee service to the order; with status, complete the ESIA verification with your own account. For .com.ru, .net.ru and .org.ru, confirm the conditions with us before ordering, and type .рф and .рус names in Cyrillic.