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One in five .рф domains have web sites

Kevin Murphy, November 14, 2011, 10:23:32 (UTC), Domain Registries

The .рф registry celebrated its first launch anniversary last week, with almost one million .рф names registered and apparently almost one in five domains with an active web site.
According to RU-Center, which says it is the registrar of record for 40% of .рф (.rf) names, about 18% of the Cyrillic domains registered in the last year resolve to full web sites.
The registrar said in a press release:

18% of names have website, 16% do redirect, 4% are on parking, 15% are just delegated but not available, and 15% have a plug webpage. 29% of .RF names are unused.

That compares to the 18.7% use penetration of .info, which has been around for over a decade, assuming RU-Center and Afilias compiled their numbers using a similar methodology.
RU-Center also said that 94% of .рф sunrise registrations have been renewed. The rate of landrush registration renewals, which give an indication of what speculators think of the space, will not be clear until December, it said.
It is apparently now also possible for non-Russians to obtain .рф domains.



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Comments (3)

  1. Phil says:

    What are your thoughts on whether these stats show decent utilisation of a TLD that’s just been launched?
    Seems that this rate is similar to .info.

    • Kevin Murphy says:

      For a year-old TLD, it compares well.
      I think 18% is about half of .uk’s utilization rate, but .uk has obviously been around for 25 years longer than .рф.
      In an ideal world, of course, we’d want to see much higher utilization rates in any TLD.

  2. I don’t consider the .info domain usage figures to be reliable. The PPC percentage is far higher than that .info domain report showed.

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