Dear Habravchane!
As we all remember and know, our favorite .RU was born 18 years ago. Now the main Russian domain has come of age
and can buy cigarettes . We offer everyone to plunge into the past and remember how Runet developed.

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1994
Administration and technical support of the national .RU domain were transferred to RosNIIROS (Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks). It was on April 7, 1994 in the international database of national top-level domains that an entry appeared about the opening of the Russian domain space.
1996
This year the oldest commercial domain is registered, which we were able to dig out:
nostalgie.ru , which, by the way, is currently hosted by REG.RU.
2006–2007
In 2006, REG.RU appears on recorder Olympus. Already in 2007, the company becomes an accredited registrar in the national zone .RU.
2008-2010
Significant years for Runet: the number of registrations is creeping up sharply, the popularity of the zone is gaining momentum, and it comes ...
2011
.RU confidently enters the TOP-5 of the largest domains in the world and takes the 4th place: it is ahead only of .DE (Germany), .UK (Great Britain), and .NL (Netherlands).
year 2012
There are more than 3,500,000 domains registered. The active growth of the zone continues: about 5,000 new domain names are registered per day (!).
And now some statistics:
Since 2009, mobile technologies have allowed users to go online without interference. Today, the most popular gadgets by the number of visits to sites in the .RU zone are:

Since the users have a huge number of different browsers, we decided to present you with the TOP programs for Internet access:

It should be noted a tendency to expand the geography of the location of the owners of domain names in the zone .RU. In the Russian region in the number of registrations lead:

In the world after Russia, by the number of registered domains are:

We decided not to stop there
and hacked secret databases and decided to find out which operating systems prevail on web servers in the .RU zone:

The hacking was a success, so we decided to go even further. HTTP servers for .RU domain:

We hope you enjoyed our history course. Thanks for attention. Congratulations to all happy birthday Runet!