Buy .su Domain Name

Yes. The zone was never closed; registration continues through the registrars accredited by ROSNIIROS. The registry states on its own site that the zone holds more than 112,000 domain names and that around 78% of them are actively used (accessed August 2026). The framework runs on rules that took effect on 1 August 2020 and were last amended on 6 April 2026. If you are looking for an available name, try your candidate with domain search.

The rules impose no nationality or residency condition; on the contrary, a foreign applicant is expressly contemplated. In listing the data to be held in the registry, they state that for a foreign company that is not a taxpayer in Russia, its home tax identifier or trade register number is accepted. What does apply from 1 September 2026 is identity verification through Gosuslugi (ЕСИА); the technical operator has said foreign individuals can create that account. Plan your timing around this step.

According to the announcement by the technical operator of the registries, once the new requirements take effect, registering a name in the national zones or extending an existing one will be possible only after identity is confirmed with a verified account on Gosuslugi — the announcement names .ru, .рф and .su together. The requirement covers new and existing holders, individuals and companies, and non-residents of Russia. If you already hold a .su address, complete the check before your renewal date rather than on it.

Under clause 3.1.1 the name must be at least two and at most 63 characters, must begin and end with a letter or a digit, and may contain only letters, digits and hyphens; the Punycode form must also stay within 63 characters. One rule is specific to this zone: the permitted characters are defined in tables published by the registry, and a single domain name may use characters from only one of those tables — scripts cannot be mixed within one name.

The registry states on its site that the zone supports internationalised domain names in both Latin and Cyrillic script, and its October 2025 announcement describes support extended to the languages of the BRICS countries. The practical catch is the no-mixing rule: every character you use must come from a single character table published by the registry. An application that combines Latin and Cyrillic letters in one name will fail on that condition.

Under clause 4.1 the registration term is one year and may be renewed an unlimited number of times, each renewal adding a year from the previous expiry. When the term ends, delegation stops and the address goes off the air. A 30-day preferential renewal period then begins in which only the previous holder may renew, and the registrar must send reminders 5–10 and 20–25 days after expiry. If that period passes without renewal, the registration is cancelled.

On 24 April 2026 the registry announced that transfers between registrars in the .SU zone now run on an AuthInfo code, so the zone uses the same standard mechanism as the .ru side. Changing the holder of the name is a separate operation: clause 6 of the rules allows the right of administration to be transferred to another person during the registration term by written application. You can start the steps from the domain transfer page.

They are two separate top-level domains run by two separate organisations. .ru was entered into the root zone on 7 April 1994 and is governed by the Coordination Center. .su was entered on 19 September 1990 and its registry is ROSNIIROS. In short, .su is the older zone and .ru the larger one. On registration term, preferential renewal and registrant data, the two rulebooks are closely aligned.