.РФ celebrates its second birthday

Russian Cyrillic ccTLD .РФ celebrated its second birthday on May 12,2012.As of today there are 798.134 .РФ domain names registered and the number is increasingly rapidly .

Two years ago,on May 12,2010,the Coordination Center for TLD .RU became the administrator of the new cyrilic domain name .РФ . On November 11,2010 domain names registration in domain .РФ became accessible for all comers.

.РФ surprised everybody when,in less than a week since .РФ was opened for general registration,more than 500,000 .РФ domains have been registered . More than 240,000 .РФ domains were registered on the first day ,making .РФ a big surprise both for the Russians and the global internet community .

Now, the IDN TLD .РФ outran Czech Republic’s domain .CZ and is on the 15th place by the number of domains among other European national domain names .