.рф

The domain name .рф (romanized as .rf;[3] abbreviation of Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossíyskaya Federátsiya) is the Cyrillic country code top-level domain for the Russian Federation, in the Domain Name System of the Internet. In the Domain Name System it has the ASCII DNS name xn--p1ai. The domain accepts only Cyrillic subdomain applications, and is the first Cyrillic implementation of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) system. The domain became operational on 13 May 2010.[4] As of 2014 it is the most used internationalized country code top-level domain, with around 900,000 domain names.[5]

.рф
.РФ
Introduced13 May 2010
TLD typeInternationalised (Cyrillic) country code top-level domain
StatusActive
RegistryCoordination Center for the Internet National Domain
Intended useEntities connected with  Russia
Actual useActive / Limited registration
Registered domains900,058 (February 2016)[1]
Registration restrictionsIntended for Cyrillic domain names only.[2]
DNS namexn--p1ai
DNSSECno
Registry websiteкц.рф

Character set

The Cyrillic letters рф stand for Российская Федерация (transliterated as Rossijskaja Federacija / Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), the Russian Federation. The domain has an ASCII representation of xn--p1ai derived as Punycode for use in the Domain Name System.

The domain is intended for Internet resources with names in the Russian language using Cyrillic.[2]

A principle in the approval process of ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) states that Cyrillic two-character top-level domains should not exclusively use characters that could be confused with Latin characters of identical or similar shapes—not just those containing the seven letters а, е, о, р, с, у and х, but originally also proposed ccTLDs such as .бг (Bulgaria) due to its visual similarity to .br,[6] although in 2016 thetop-level domain .бг was launched. As such, GNSO sought to avoid the direct transcription of "ru" into Cyrillic, "ру",[7] and common abbreviations for Russia (Russian: Россия), such as "ро", in order to avoid confusion with the Latin ccTLDs .py (Paraguay) and .po (currently unassigned). In English sources .рф can be romanized as .rf, but the latter is not a valid domain for Russia. Later, other countries have won approval of two or three letter Cyrillic ccTLDs such as .укр, .срб, .мон, .қаз, .бел, .мкд and .бг.

Early preparations

The preparation, development, and technical testing of the domain started in 2007 by registrar RU Center.[8] The domain delegation process started in November 2009 as an application to ICANN under the new Fast Track IDN ccTLD process. The domain is expected to be launched in 2010. In preparation for a launch, RU Center opened a sunrise registration period for Russian trademark owners from 25 November 2009 to 25 March 2010.[9] General public registrations are planned starting 20 April 2010 through June 2010 using a Dutch auction process, and at a fixed price beginning in July 2010.

In January 2010 ICANN announced that the domain was one of the first four new non-Latin ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.[10]

In a press release in December 2007, Alexei Lesnikov of RU-Center suggested that an auction for domain names could be highly successful, as was the case with a similar domain name auction on the .su ccTLD.[2]

With comparisons being made with an equivalent Chinese TLD of .中国, it was anticipated that take-up of a Russian Cyrillic TLD could outstrip demand for the Latin alphabet equivalent, .ru.[2] As of 2014 however, .ru has five times as many registrations as .рф.

First use

The top-level domain became operational on the Internet on 13 May 2010.[4] The first two accessible sites were http://президент.рф (president) and http://правительство.рф (government).[11]

The traditional country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Russia, based on the ISO country codes, is ru. There is no direct mapping of subdomains between рф and ru, they are independent domains hosting potentially different resources. However, many resources may use URL redirection or DNS pointers to provide mapping between the name spaces. For example, the URLs http://президент.рф (prezident.rf) and http://kremlin.ru point to the identical resource, and http://яндекс.рф (Yandex) redirects to http://www.yandex.ru.

Second level domains

The second-level domain names are registered directly with user-defined names, such as company names. There are no standardized category names (such as com or org) used on the second level. The second-level domain names are intended to have Cyrillic characters only, but some have Latin characters[12] or digits instead.[13] For the third level names, it is fairly common that "www" (Latin characters) are used, but most main company addresses don't use any third level name.

gollark: Which can have some unexpected results.
gollark: Also, it has weird special casing with comparison operators: `5 <= x <= 10` is actually valid and does what you might expect if you were a MATHS PERSON.
gollark: Oh, and the way everything is mutable by default can cause badness.
gollark: Plus !!referential transparency!!.
gollark: `is` is terrible and confusing because it's object identity and will *appear* to work sometimes when it's wrong.

See also

References
  1. "nic.ru (Russian ccTLD Registry) domain count". nic.ru. 19 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  2. (in Russian) Кириллический домен ".рф" появится в Сети в 2008 году Archived 9 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Cyrillic domain ".рф" will be introduced in 2008), RBC Informations Systems, 25 December 2007; accessed 24 September 2008.
  3. Rossia.rf becomes first Cyrillic domain, RIA Novosti, 25 November 2009
  4. Rfe/Rl. "Cyrillic Domain Names Become Operational on the Internet". Rferl.org. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  5. World report on Internationalised Domain Names 2014 Archived 10 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine page 94
  6. General remarks on Cyrillic IDNs Archived 17 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine, ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization wiki, revision dated 22 June 2008 Archived 27 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine; accessed 24 September 2008.
  7. Knight, Gavin (3 January 2008). "Kremlin eyes internet control..." The Guardian. London. Technology Guardian section, p. 6. Retrieved 8 May 2010. The problem for Russia is that its top-level domain - with the ASCII suffix .ru - translates into Cyrillic as .py, the domain name of Paraguay. That could pose security problems for Russian users.
  8. (in Russian) Пресс-конференция «Итоги развития российского национального домена RU в 2007 году» (Press conference: The outcome of the development of the Russian national domain RU in 2007), ccTLD.ru, 24 December 2007; accessed 8 January 2008.
  9. "РФ Domains Sunrise Registration Launched". Nic.ru. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  10. "First IDN ccTLDs Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation". ICANN. 21 January 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  11. (in Russian) Этой ночью в Интернете запущен первый кириллический домен ".рф" Archived 20 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, RBC, 13 May 2010; accessed 13 May 2010.
  12. E.g. http://сгау.рф
  13. E.g. http://555509.рф%5B%5D
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