Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ Releases “Russian Domain Space 2014” Report

The Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, the company behind .RU and .РФ domain extension, has just released the “”Russian Domain Space 2014” report.

The report reveals some of the most important and interesting events that took place in 2014 in both Russian domain name spance and in global domain inustry.

Here are some highlights  :

.RU and .РФ and the Internet Growth in Russia :

“At the end of 2014, the global domain space had 45 IDN tol level domains in 35 countries. As many as 38 domains in 19 languages, using 15 diferent scripts, had been delegated by then, while even more, including Armenia, Bangladesh,Belarus, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen – were awaiting delegation.

According to Russian experts, Google’s support for IDNs is only the beginning of a lot of work toward implementing e-mail using non-Latin characters aroung the world an in all e-mail engines.

The .RU TLD remained sixth among the national top level domains by the number of domain names on its database. The .РФ domain ranked 16th among European ccTLDs, ahead of similar domains in Montenegro,Romania, Hungary and Ukraine. At the same time .РФ is also the leader among internationlized country code top-level domains.”

You can read the entire report here.