The .SU domain is the national top-level domain of the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although the USSR ceased to exist long ago, the SU domain is still in use today. The SU domain zone was opened for domain registration on September 19, 1990.
But already in 1994 it was suspended due to the appearance of the RU domain zone. And only 8 years later, on December 15, 2002, domain registration for trademark owners became available again. Six months later, on June 27, 2003, after the completion of the priority registration stage, SU domains again became available to everyone.
A site in the SU domain zone usually denotes its belonging to any of the CIS countries or the former Soviet Union. Although since 2003 registration is available to everyone, regardless of the specifics of the site. Most domains are registered in Serbia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and, of course, in Russia.
At the beginning of 2010, the number of registered domains in the SU zone is more than 91 thousand names.
SU domain registration price is for 1 year. Some registrars offer to buy an SU domain for a little less, but the cost of renewing a domain name is much higher. We have the cost of renewal is equal to the cost of registering a .SU domain!
By registering a SU domain, you can free of charge and at any time:
- change DNS, attach a domain to any hosting or server;
- use our DNS servers, with the ability to independently prescribe the necessary records such as A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, MX, SRV, TXT, as well as specify child DNS servers;
- use the domain with various services and website builders (LiveJournal, Blogger, Google sites, UCOZ and many others)
- type [email protected] with protection against spam and viruses without using hosting;
- enable the domain auto-renewal service - now you will definitely not forget to renew the domain, this will happen automatically (if there are funds on the balance);
- quickly set up a redirect to any site in the panel or, for example, to your account on VKontakte, Facebook, classmates, twitter, LiveJournal, Promodj, Last.fm, YouTube, Instagram and others;
- hide your data in WHOIS (Private Person), if it is supported by the SU domain zone;
- change phone, email, and other available contacts in WHOIS information;
- set up receiving E-mail and SMS notifications about events with domains and account.
Registration of SU domains is carried out around the clock in automatic mode and only for your data. As a rule, the SU domain will be registered within 10-30 minutes after the order is created. To buy a SU domain, enter the desired name in the form above.
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Domain in SU zone Abbreviation.SU is associated as: USSR, Soviet Union, USSR, Soviet Union, CIS!
Domain.SU (Soviet Union)- national top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Territory of the former USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Managed by a private non-governmental organization "Internet Development Fund" (Russia).
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State: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
The territory of the former USSR occupied the eastern half of Europe and the northern third of Asia. It was washed by the Arctic Ocean, Bering, Okhotsk, Japan seas; bordered on the DPRK, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Norway. It occupied a significant part of the coast of the Caspian, Black and Baltic Seas. |
Domain zone SU belongs to the state: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics),
highlighted in orange on the world map!
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The SU domain is currently administered by the Internet Development Foundation and the Russian Research Institute
Development of Public Networks (RosNIIROS). The Internet Development Fund is entrusted with the functions of managing the processes of further development of the SU domain. RosNIIROS, which, although formally the administrator of the domain, in fact, performs only the functions of its technical center.
Registration: through a network of registrars, which can only be legal entities registered in the territory of the former USSR. The .SU domain entered the IANA Top Level Domain Registry on September 19, 1990.
After the appearance of the RU domain in 1994, the registration of names in the SU zone was suspended and resumed only 8 years later - in 2002. However, for more than a year it was only available to trademark owners. In June 2003, the Internet Development Foundation announced the start of open registration of domain names in the SU zone.
Today, any natural or legal person can be a registrant.
From December 15, 2002 to June 22, 2003, in the SU domain, after the decision of the Internet Development Fund to resume registrations, priority registration of domain names was carried out for trademark owners. Since June 27, 2003, registration in the SU zone has been open. Domains are registered on a first-come-first-served basis.
At the end of June 2008, the Committee for the Maintenance of Registered Country Codes of the International Organization for Standardization (Committee ISO3166 / MA) decided to transfer the SU code to the category of exclusively reserved, which allows removing all restrictions on the lifetime of the SU code and domain.
Number of domain names: As of March 2009, there are over 82,000 names in the SU zone. At the same time, it continues to grow - the monthly increase is over 300 new names. About 97% of domain name owners are residents of the Russian Federation, of which 54% are legal entities. Among the 3% of non-resident owners, the share of organizations is 84%. Most of the foreign registrations are in the USA, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden.
Domain name requirements: The name must consist of more than two characters, begin and end with a letter of the Latin alphabet or a number. Intermediate characters can be letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers or hyphens. The maximum number of characters is 63.
On April 28, 2008, restrictions on registration of domains with the xn-- prefix were lifted in the SU domain, which made it possible to enter part of the address in the browser line in the national encoding. When registering such domains, the use of character tables of the UNICODE standard (version 3.2.0) is allowed, which makes it possible to receive names in a browser line in more than 250 different languages.
If you have landed on this page, it means that you are puzzled by which domain to choose for your site. I hope this article will help you make your choice.
Hundreds of thousands of resources are registered in the RU, SU and RF zones. Almost all owners of future Russian sites, before registering a domain name, are faced with the question of in which zone to register the address for the site, RU, SU or RF? I will try to describe the features of these extensions to make it easier for you to navigate and choose exactly what you need.
RU domains. Suitable for most projects, we can even say that for 100% of the resources of absolutely any subject and activity. Whether it's an apartment renovation site, a corporate resource for a law firm, a beauty salon website, or an online store for children's toys, you can register an Internet address in the "ru" zone for everyone. If the resource has pages in several additional languages, such as English and German, then it is better to register the domain name in the COM or NET zone. It is also more expedient to register in these international zones if your business is aimed at providing services or selling goods not only to residents of Russia, but also to the CIS countries, Europe, Asia, etc.
SU domains. They practically do not differ from RU. Many project owners do not like the combination of letters, but the addresses in this zone still have to be registered due to the fact that most of the options in the "ru" zone are already taken. Those. The SU extension is mainly used by those who would like to get a specific address for their project in the RU zone, but there it is already occupied by another resource and, as an alternative, the SU zone is used.
RF domains. They appeared relatively recently, in 2011, and began to gain popularity among the owners of Russian web sites. Internet addresses in the RF zone are beautiful, convenient, but not yet very practical. For example, I noticed that when promoting sites, search engines Yandex and Google still trust RU and SU domain names more, indexing Cyrillic domain names also takes a little longer. Otherwise, if your business is aimed only at Russian users, then you can register a domain for a site in the Russian Federation zone. So far, not all interesting names (words, phrases) are occupied in this extension, and for a couple of years you can easily choose a beautiful domain for the site in the Russian Federation zone.
Have you already decided what extension your future website will have? Now you need to register the address with a reliable registrar so that in the future there will be no problems with re-registration to another person, sale, etc. Over the years, I have come across dozens of different companies selling domain names, but not all of them turned out to be bona fide registrars. This article will help you make the right choice.
More than 100 thousand sites use the .SU domain zone for placement on the Internet. If you also want to get an address in this domain zone, you will be interested to know how it appeared.
The .SU domain zone was registered in 1990 for the Soviet Union ( S oviet U nion). Despite the collapse of the USSR, domains are still popular: they are easy to remember and inexpensive. In addition, .SU is not used as often as .RU or .РФ, so there are more free names in this zone, and you can choose exactly the address you want.
Buy a domain name in the .SU zone
In order to buy a .SU domain on Timeweb, just select a free address, put it in the shopping cart, fill in the required data and pay for the purchase in the control panel. The whole procedure will take no more than 30 minutes.
Registering .SU domain names isn't the only thing Timeweb does. You can also purchase hosting for future sites from us. If you are interested in our company only as a registrar of .SU domains, then the “Parking” tariff will suit you, where you only need to pay for domains.
Top level for the Soviet Union. The domain is still in use, although the Soviet Union has already ceased to exist.
The first domestic network project was created in the bowels of the Institute of Atomic Energy. I.V. Kurchatov and united physicists and programmers. August 28, 1990 The first session of telecommunication communication with Finland was held via an international telephone - the network, which will later be called RELCOM, was connected to the world Internet for the first time. A September 19, 1990 User Association UNIX (SUUG - Soviet UNIX User's Group) has registered a top-level domain SU for use in the USSR. She also performed the functions of domain administration.
In 1993, the administration of the domain was transferred to the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks (RosNIIROS). By the time the domain appeared EN in April 1994 in the zone SU several thousand domains of various levels were registered. However, with the start of free registration of domain names in the domain EN, RosNIIROS stopped registration of second-level domains in the zone SU. Nevertheless, the domain zone continued to grow spontaneously due to the increase in the number of third-level domains.
December 15, 2002 registration of domains in the zone SU was renewed - at first only for trademark owners. In June 2003, the Internet Development Fund, which is currently entrusted with the functions of a domain administrator SU, the end of the priority registration period was announced, and on June 27 of the same year, open registration of second-level domains in the zone SU.
Currently the number of registrants SU is growing steadily. According to the stat.nic.ru project, the number of registered second-level domains in the zone SU will soon reach 4500. About 150 new domain names appear in this zone every month.
As domain registrars in the zone SU three Russian registrar companies are accredited. Each registrar has its own partnership agreements with many companies. The Fund itself has no relationship with registrar partners. In addition, RIPN provides support for second-level domain names in the domain SU, registered by him before October 1, 2001. A clear leader in the number of registrations since the resumption of open registration of domains in the zone SU remains RU-CENTER, which accounts for over 87% of domain registrations SU.
The uniqueness of the "Soviet" domain zone is associated with a large number of free "beautiful" domain names. Despite the high cost of registering a domain name in the SU, number of domain owners SU continues to grow. Dynamics of registration of new names by Russian citizens in the domain SU the same as in COM, BIZ and other public domains.
In the same time ICANN repeatedly stated the need to follow the standard ISO-3166-1 in matters of registration of national domain names. These statements reported that the status of the domain SU defined as """scheduled for closure""". In the domain SU there is no administration policy, and the nominal administrator of the domain - the company RosNIIROS does not directly register domain names in the zone SU and does not accredit third party registrars. Thus, the legitimacy of the existence of the zone SU is subject to doubt.
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