Internet and Business
From the moment of "birth" of national domain RU there have passed exactly 12 years. This event has coincided with registration of a semimillion domain name in RU zone.
«At summarising of last year we expected passage of this mark only by the end of summer of 2006. This year rates of a gain of registration of domains of the second level have considerably increased in February-March thanks to what achievement of figure 500 of thousand became possible in April», - the director of the registrator of domain names RU-Center makes comments.
Tendencies of last years in the world market of registration of domains testify that users of the Network at a choice of domain names give preference to national domain zones The gain of registration in domain RU following the results of 2005 has made 46,31 %. It is the highest indicator for all history of the Russian domain and one of the highest among national domains (ññTLD). Only domain CN (China) - 150 % following the results of 2005 (last year domain CN has won first place on number of registration in Asia) grows faster. Other leaders (basically it is European ccTLDs) show growth at level of 40-50 % per year.
For comparison: the most popular among national domains is the domain of Germany (the number of domains of the second level in zone DE has exceeded a 9,73 million mark). The Great Britain with domain UK which unites about 4,5 million, the truth, the domains of the third level distributed on six domain zones of the second level goes trace. In the Netherlands domain (NL) 1,86 million domains of the second level exist; in the domain of Belgium - 1,03 million, in Canadian (CA) - about 665 thousand Not so long ago (on April, 3rd, 2006) the national domain of Austria (AT) also has overcome a boundary in a half-million of domain names, having outstripped thereby France (FR) in which national domain has about 462 thousand names.