.ru TLD audit hub
Russia ccTLD — administered by Coordination Center for TLD RU.
The .ru TLD is administered by the Coordination Center for TLD RU and has roughly 5 million active registrations. The registry has historically operated independently of Russian government control on a day-to-day basis but has been subject to state pressure on individual domains. Since 2022 several international registrars have suspended new .ru registrations or limited transfers in response to the war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions regime — coverage at major registrars varies and the operational risk profile of running production infrastructure on .ru has changed significantly. There is also .рф, the Cyrillic IDN TLD, which sits alongside .ru. Eligibility is open globally in principle but verification has tightened. SEO treats .ru as a Russia-bound geotargeting signal and Yandex remains a meaningful search-traffic source for Russian-language audiences. We flag .ru in our operational risk reporting because of registrar volatility and sanctions exposure for Western payment processors and CDN services.