Buy .com.ru Domain Name

No. The top-level domain registered for Russia in IANA's root zone database is .ru; com.ru is a second-level name registered inside .RU. The registry's WHOIS service shows a creation date of 11 January 1997 for com.ru and the state «REGISTERED, DELEGATED, VERIFIED». An address bought in this zone is therefore a third-level name: it consists of three parts — your own name, com and ru.

According to the registry's WHOIS record, the registrar for com.ru is RU-CENTER-RU, the Regional Network Information Center, and WHOIS queries for the zone are directed to whois.nic.ru. The parent zone .RU is governed by the Coordination Center. The distinction matters in practice: the Center's published rules cover second-level names under .RU, while the conditions for names under com.ru are set by the operator of that zone.

Both point at the same country but sit at different levels. .ru is the national zone run by the Coordination Center, and registration happens directly beneath it. A .com.ru name is opened underneath a name that itself lives inside .RU. In practice this means a short brand name already taken on the .ru side is more likely to be available under com.ru, at the cost of a slightly longer address.

On the parent-zone side there is no prohibition: the Coordination Center states that its rules contain no ban on registration by foreign natural or legal persons. However, com.ru's own conditions are not published on the Center's official documents page, and the operator's text could not be read from a primary source. For that reason, confirm the eligibility and term conditions at the order step rather than assuming the .ru rules apply unchanged.

The announcement by the technical operator of the registries names .ru, .рф and .su specifically: from 1 September 2026, registration and renewal in those zones depend on identity confirmed through a verified Gosuslugi (ЕСИА) account. The announcement is written around the top-level national zones, and no separate official statement was found on how it is applied to third-level zones such as com.ru. It is worth confirming this point before you register.

To see whether a name is free, use domain search, where you can also compare the .ru and .su equivalents side by side. To see the general state of a registered name, use WHOIS: queries for this zone are directed to whois.nic.ru, and the record for com.ru itself can be viewed through the same service. You can run the lookup from the whois search page.

There are three. To keep the same string inside .RU, try com.ru; to try a separate top-level domain for the same country, there is .su; to stay in the national zone with a modified string, there is .ru itself. The quickest way to see which is free is to test all three in one query — domain search shows the results next to each other.