Russia 500, catfish – more expensive – St. Petersburg and the World

Council Coordination Center for TLD RU (CC) responsible for pricing in .ru or “.rf” did not approve the head of KC prepared a draft budget for 2015, according to which value domains registrar company (they work with end users) should increase by 25%.

The Board will review the price of CC domains in the zone “RF” in March this year. While maintaining the same prices for Russian .ru domains and .rf are the cheapest in the world. Despite the rise in the dollar, the administration zones .ru and “.rf” changed her mind to increase the value of domains by 25%. Today, the average cost of domains for retail customers in the Russian Federation is about 550 rubles a year. At the same time, it will not improve.

In all major registrars discounts for partners, including for those who buy a large number of domains. For them, the price is about 90-100 rubles. Separate recorders sell domains retail at 90 rubles. For example, the cheapest prices for international domains, such as .com and .net, – $ 10-11 per year. In the season of super value may temporarily drop to $ 5 (that is, up to 350 rubles at the exchange rate of the dollar to 70 rubles).

It is noteworthy that the size of the domain name is limited to administrative and technical reasons. Usually resolves domain registration up to 63 characters. In some countries, the domains can be recorded up to 127 characters. Currently, the Guinness Book of Records ‘longest’ domain names are not recorded, because their design does not require any special effort [

Let us recall that one of the world’s largest domain registrar GoDaddy yesterday stopped serve their customers in the Crimea. Domain owners have to hastily transfer them to other registrars resources.

Members of the Crimea, who have registered their domains in the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy received a message stating that due to the sanctions on January 31 their registration domain name will be removed and these names may be registered in other people.

Domain name – a symbolic name used to identify areas – units of administrative autonomy on the Internet – as a part of the parent hierarchy of such a region. Each of these areas is called a domain. Total namespace functions thanks to the Internet DNS – Domain Name System. Domain names allow Internet address of nodes and located thereon network resources (web sites, e-mail servers, and other services) in human readable sequence.