.su

September 19, 1990 on behalf of the UNIX User Association ( SUUG - Soviet UNIX User's Group), an organization created in the bowels of the Institute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatova , the head of one of the Demos brigades, Vadim Antonov, registered in the InterNIC ( Internet Network Information Center ) database a top-level domain SU for use in the USSR. SUUG also proposed the option of naming the domain .ussr ^[2] . The association subsequently performed the functions of domain administration ^[3] . The first Russian site was the resource of the mathematics department of the RAS ipsun.ac.msc.su (today - www.ras.ru ) ^[4] .

In 1993, domain administration was transferred to the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks ( RIPN ).

By the time the .ru domain appeared in April 1994, several thousand domains were registered in the .su zone. With the beginning of free domain name registration in the Russian domain, RIPN has stopped registering second-level domains in the .su zone. Nevertheless, the domain zone continued to grow spontaneously due to an increase in the number of hosts .

In 2000, the function of the zone registry holder was assigned to the Internet Development Fund.

At the end of 2001, despite the protests of the Internet community ^[5] , .su domain administrators explicitly thawed the zone intended for phased elimination and opened it for commercial registrations ^[6] .

On December 15, 2002, domain registration in the SU zone was renewed - initially only for trademark owners. In June 2003, the Internet Development Fund announced the end of the priority registration period and the beginning of open domain registration in the .su zone.

In April 2008, the Internet Development Fund, acting as the administrator of the .su domain, expanded the possibilities of registering domain names in national languages ​​in the .su domain - restrictions on the registration of domains with the prefix xn-- were removed, which allowed to enter part of the address in the browser bar in national coding, including in Russian.

In August 2008, another 37 new ones were added to previously allowed Cyrillic characters. Thus, support was provided for the national languages ​​of the peoples inhabiting the territory of Russia, namely: Altai, Bashkir, Buryat, Dolgan, Kalmyk, Komi, Koryak, Mari, Nanai, Nenets, Ossetian, Sami (without specifying the length of the vowels), Tatar, Tuvan, Udmurt, Khakass, Khanty, Chuvash, Evenk, Even, Yakut.

At the end of June 2008, the Committee for the Service of Registered Codes of Countries of the International Organization for Standardization (Committee ISO3166 / MA) decided to transfer the .su code to the category of exclusively reserved. Corresponding changes have already been made to the table of two-letter codes of states and territories, published as the international standard ISO-3166-1 . Thus, the .su code in this table has become the tenth code in the status of exclusively reserved.

As a domain registrar in the .su zone, 12 Russian registrar companies are accredited ^[7] . Each registrar has its own partnership agreements with many companies. The Fund itself has no relations with registrar partners. In addition, RIPN provides support for second-level domain names in the .su domain registered by it prior to October 1, 2001. The clear leader in the number of registrations since renewing open domain registration in .su zone remains RU-CENTER, which accounts for 65% of registrations in .su domain (as of June 2009 ^[8] ).

The official price of registration / renewal of a second-level domain in the .su zone is 360 rubles for registrars (180 rubles each at RIPN and the Internet Development Fund), for users at least 600 rubles ^[9] (from December 3, 2007 ).

On September 22, 2010, the .su domain turned 20 years old ^[10] . A reduction in the price of .su domain for registrars to 250 rubles ^[11] was timed to coincide with this date, which led to lower prices for end customers.

• Domain name
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• .rus
• .ukr
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• The whois information for the .su domain on the IANA website . Date of treatment April 6, 2010.
• Statistics of registration and delegation of domains in the SU zone (Russian) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010. Archived March 30, 2010.
• Internet Development Fund (rus.) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010.
  • The discussion on the SU domain at ICANN has ended (in Russian) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010.
  • Forum of the Internet Development Fund (Russian) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010. Archived March 26, 2010.
• Victory: the domain of the Soviet Union is legalized (Russian) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010.
• Statistics of registration and delegation of domains in the SU zone (Russian) . Date of treatment April 6, 2010.