Internet domain USSR. SU domain zone. Data required for domain registration

Whose Internet domain SU belongs to which country? The history of the appearance of the domain zone.

Domain.SU is located in one of the oldest zones on the Internet. This zone was created for citizens of the republics that were part of the Soviet Union. Now it contains information from individuals seeking to disseminate information in the countries of the former USSR.

Domain.SU was first registered in the early 1990s. The abbreviation stands for “SovietUnion”, that is, the Soviet Union. The purpose of the creation was to use a network publicly available to the countries of the Union, which would subsequently be integrated into the global Internet.

What country does the domain zone belong to these days? After the collapse of USSR.SU, it continued to exist, despite the fact that each former socialist republic began to use own domain, consisting of two letters. What did the SU domain become in the end? The possibility of free registration in the .SU zone reappeared at the end of 2002, but only for organizations that own brands. And only in the summer of next year, everyone (regardless of their country of residence) was allowed to register and receive SU domains.

Characteristics of a domain zone that deserve attention

Limitation when creating domain zone It is the impossibility of using obscene Russian and foreign words and the inadmissibility of registration under a name that has already been reserved previously.

To register a domain name, you will need to fill out a domain owner form, including passport details and phone number.

Requirements for registering domain names in the SU zone.

SU domain registration rules:

• Allowable length: You can come up with a name whose length starts from 2 and ends with 63 characters. (2 – 63)
• Renewal procedure: You can renew the domain after the period for which the resource name is registered. Currently the limit period is one year.
• Removal from delegation and deletion: after the end of the registration period, delegation ceases. The domain is removed from the registry after the blocking period ends. Deletion is not possible on holidays, weekends and the first working days of the week. This is done specifically for the customer so that he can renew the domain name.

Who is suitable for a domain in the .SU zone?

The main “consumers” seeking to register in the zone are the following organizations and individuals:

• Companies operating in the geopolitical space of the former USSR
• Residents of the former USSR who write blogs
• Networks engaged in the distribution of goods and services
• Transport companies

• Reference and historical resources
• Media
• Representative offices of organizations in the territory of the former Soviet republics
• Databases

The listed persons are directly interested in having a domain name in the .SU zone. This is due to target audience, towards which the activities of individuals are directed.

Pros and cons of the SU domain zone.

• Trust: the relatively high cost of a domain does not allow registering them for doorways and low-quality sites;
• Transferring a domain to another person: quick change of contact information in WHOIS;
• Possibility to use as a mail domain: attaching a domain to Google and Yandex mail, as well as to other mail services;
• Popularity in the CIS: domains in the .SU zone are familiar to residents of the post-Soviet space;
• Opportunity to find an interesting domain: In the SU zone you are more likely to find a beautiful domain than in RU or RF;
• More neutral than RU or RF: political and social neutrality of the domain space is important for international projects.

The main disadvantage of a domain zone is that Internet users living in the post-Soviet space may mistakenly type domain.RU in their name rather than .SU. This is due to the predominance of RU domains. But this drawback is not serious, since the probability of error is very small. Interested users will still find the resource they are interested in, regardless of the domain name.

Also, the disadvantages include the long period of domain transfer - official registrars require a written application for transfer.

Frequently asked questions about the domain zone.SU - price, where to buy a cheap domain, how to get it for free.

You can get a SU domain for free when you register for the “Business” tariff for a period of 1 year.

Yes, we provide both types of services. You can order any hosting services - shared hosting, vps hosting, dedicated server rental.

SU domain prices may be reduced during promotional periods. If you want to buy a domain at a price lower than other registrars, follow our promotions and special offers.

Depending on the topic of your Internet project. RU domains are usually cheaper, while in the SU domain zone you can try to find unusual and interesting domain names.

The SU domain is a country code domain top level countries of the former Soviet Union. Although the USSR has long ceased to exist, the SU domain is still used today. The SU domain zone was opened for domain registration on September 19, 1990.

But already in 1994 it was suspended due to the emergence of the RU domain zone. And only 8 years later, on December 15, 2002, domain registration again became available for trademark owners. Another six months later, on June 27, 2003, after the completion of the priority registration stage, SU domains again became available to everyone.

A site in the SU domain zone usually indicates its affiliation with one of the CIS countries or the former Soviet Union. Although since 2003, registration is available to everyone, regardless of the specifics of the site. Most domains are registered in Serbia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and, naturally, in Russia.

At the beginning of 2010, the number of registered domains in the SU zone was more than 91 thousand names.

The price for SU domain registration is for 1 year. Some registrars offer to buy a SU domain a little cheaper, but the cost of renewing a domain name is much higher. We have the renewal cost is equal to the cost of SU domain registration!

By registering a SU domain, you can free and anytime:

• change DNS, attach a domain to any hosting or server;
• use our DNS servers, with the ability to independently register the necessary records of type A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, MX, SRV, TXT, as well as indicate child DNS servers;
• use the domain with various services and website builders (LiveJournal, Blogger, Google sites, UCOZ and many others)
• type [email protected] with protection against spam and viruses without the use of hosting;
• enable the domain auto-renewal service - now you will definitely not forget to renew the domain, this will happen automatically (if you have funds on your balance);
• quickly set up redirection in the panel to any website or, for example, to your account on VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, LiveJournal, Promodj, Last.fm, YouTube, Instagram and others;
• hide your data in WHOIS (Private Person), if the SU domain zone supports it;
• change phone, email, and other available contacts in WHOIS information;
• set up receiving E-mail and SMS notifications about events with domains and account.

SU domain registration is carried out automatically around the clock and only using your data. Typically, the SU domain will be registered within 10-30 minutes after the order is created. To buy a SU domain, enter your desired name in the form above.

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How to register a “SU domain”

State: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) The territory of the former USSR occupied the eastern half of Europe and the northern third of Asia. Washed by the Arctic Ocean, the Bering, Okhotsk, and Japanese seas; bordered the DPRK, PRC, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Norway. It occupied a significant part of the coast of the Caspian, Black and Baltic seas. Area - 22,402,200 sq. km (1st place in the world). Population - 286,717,000 people. (1989) Administrative division - consisted of 15 republics (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia), which included 20 autonomous ones. The official language is Russian.

The SU domain zone belongs to the state: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics),
highlighted in orange on the world map!

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Note: All functions, services and services are provided absolutely free of charge to all domains registered with us. There may be many registrars in the SU domain zone, but only with us you can register or buy an SU domain at the most low prices in RuNet.

The SU domain is currently administered by the Internet Development Fund and the Russian Research Institute

Development of Public Networks (RosNIIROS). The Internet Development Fund is entrusted with the functions of managing the processes of further development of the SU domain. RosNIIROS, which, although formally the domain administrator, essentially performs only the functions of its technical center.

Registration: through a network of registrars, which can only be legal entities registered in the territory of the former USSR. The SU domain appeared in the IANA top-level domain registry on September 19, 1990.
After the appearance of the RU domain in 1994, the registration of names in the SU zone was suspended and resumed only 8 years later - in 2002. However, for more than a year it was available only to trademark owners. In June 2003, the Internet Development Foundation announced the start open registration domain names in the SU zone.
Today, a registrant can be any individual or legal entity.

From December 15, 2002 to June 22, 2003, in the SU domain, after the decision of the Internet Development Fund to renew registrations in it, priority registration of domain names was carried out for trademark owners. Since June 27, 2003, registration in the SU zone has been open. Domains are registered on a first-come, first-serve basis.

At the end of June 2008, the Committee for the Maintenance of Registered Country Codes of the International Organization for Standardization (Committee ISO3166/MA) decided to transfer the SU code to the exclusively reserved category, which makes it possible to remove all restrictions on the lifetime of the SU code and domain.

Number of domain names: As of March 2009, there are more than 82 thousand names in the SU zone. At the same time, it continues to grow - the monthly increase is over 300 new names. About 97% of domain name holders are residents Russian Federation, of which 54% are legal entities. Among the 3% of non-resident owners, the share of organizations is 84%. The majority of foreign registrations occur in the USA, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden.

Domain name requirements: The name must consist of more than two characters and begin and end with a letter of the Latin alphabet or a number. Intermediate characters can be letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers or a hyphen. Maximum quantity characters - 63.

On April 28, 2008, in the SU domain, restrictions on registration of domains with the xn-- prefix were lifted, which made it possible to enter part of the address in the browser line in national encoding. When registering such domains, it is possible to use character tables of the UNICODE standard (version 3.2.0), which makes it possible to receive names in the browser line in more than 250 different languages.

Is it worth buying a SU domain?

So, today we will talk about whether it is worth buying a domain in the SU zone. Many people still cannot understand what SU means. To answer this question, it is worth remembering history. A year before the collapse of the USSR, the first-level domain .SU was registered on the global network, i.e. SU stands for Sovet Union (Soviet Union).

Many of us remember that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The newly formed states, in accordance with their status, could apply for their own domain name, which they all did. Instead of one general one, there were 15 particular ones. Including Russia. But in our country, many things often happen differently from others (in other words, some things are done through...). Therefore, the .SU domain, like many other things, remained under the jurisdiction of Russia.

At the moment, it turns out that the SU domain zone is the domain zone of a non-existent state. However, in lately for the SU domain zone they came up with a slightly different interpretation, namely that the .su domain zone is a single information space of the CIS and Baltic countries.
Since June 27, 2003, registration of domain names in domain.su has been opened for everyone, and since April 28, 2008, it has become possible to use Cyrillic names in the SU zone.

There was no particular excitement in the SU zone. Initially, this was due to the fact that SU domains were quite expensive. After prices dropped to about $20 per domain name, some of the more or less attractive names were bought up. With the advent of the opportunity to register domains in the SU zone in Cyrillic, again only the most “delicious” names were bought up, since everyone was already waiting for the introduction of a new zone of the Russian Federation, which broke all possible records for the number of domain registrations in the very first days after the start of free registration.

Opponents of the SU zone argue that a person, by mistake, will most likely type sitename.ru instead of sitename.su. Well, what can I say, perhaps those couple of people who type the names of sites using the keyboard will make a mistake. But the question immediately arises: how many per thousand site visitors are there of those who get to the site in this way? Five people, one of whom will make a mistake? Even a complete idiot probably understands that the main traffic comes from search engines and most users don’t care what domain zone the site is in. For most, the main thing is that the site contains useful information.

Imagine that a sexually anxious person has found a “good” porn site in the SU domain zone with a sonorous name. Do you think he'll type his name wrong? The chance is close to zero.

They say that sites in the SU zone have no chance of properly promoting themselves - supposedly search engines don’t like the SU zone? Complete nonsense. Here is an example of a site in the SU zone with more than 50 thousand unique visitors per day seriali.su. Please note that this site is not a mirror of the site in the ru zone; the Sedo catalog is located at seriali.ru.

What will happen to the SU zone? She'll be fine. After being snapped up beautiful names in the Cyrillic zone of the Russian Federation, webmasters will begin to slowly, without much fuss, buy Cyrillic domains in the SU zone (and not only Cyrillic ones).

So to take or not to take a domain in the SU zone? Take it if the name is sonorous and contains keyword according to the topic of your site. Naturally, if there is an opportunity to grab the desired name in the RU or RF zone, then it is better to take it there, although this is unlikely to succeed, since at the moment it is unlikely that anything worthy can be found in RU. In the Russian Federation zone, you can still experiment and find something. For example, at the time of writing these lines, the domain name miner.rf (with the letter e) is available. Naturally, everything “tasty” was taken away a long time ago. As we have already written, the largest cybersquatter in Russia, RU-CENTER, has grabbed everything that is possible. This cybersquatter is still registered domain names like school.rf, cats.rf, dogs.rf. How much they will be sold for is a big question. Most likely, each of these names will go for no less than $10,000. As you probably already guessed, similar names are occupied in the SU zone. The domains cat.su and dog.su are in domain parking because... They were clearly originally purchased for resale.

So, the conclusion: If you didn’t get anything worthy in the RU, RF or COM domain zones (in principle, you couldn’t even mention the COM zone, since it’s impossible to find anything at all), then you can safely take sonorous names in the SU zone. Take it while you can take it. Good luck to everyone in your online business.