Domain of the former USSR. SU domain zone. Whose Internet domain is SU, which country does it belong to? The history of the appearance of the domain zone

On September 19, 2011, it was 21 years since the day when it was registered domain.SU And these two letters do not mean the Southern Urals, where I come from, in English reading. They designate the national top-level domain of the state of the Soviet Union - Soviet Union.

Yes, it also happens - there is no state, but domain.SU is in perfect health and even experiences some recovery.

The .SU domain is rich in history

The .SU domain zone has a rich history. We can say that she became the progenitor of the modern Runet. The .SU domain was registered a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, but was not disbanded, as, for example, happened with the Czechoslovakia.CS domain - during the collapse of the state, the Czechoslovak domain was urgently cleared and closed.

From 1994 to 2002, registration in the .SU domain zone was suspended.

Since now, the .SU domain has been steadily developing; today, more than 101,000 domain names are registered in it. True, a decent increase in new names is eaten up by purge of obsolete ones.

And the interest in the .SU domain zone is confirmed by the fact that more than 50% of domain names in it are younger than two years old.

Why is the .SU domain attractive?

I mean, there are a lot of interesting names among the released domains in this zone. Once upon a time, at the very beginning, all sonorous names were free, there was definitely no such shortage as now.

The .SU domain zone allows registration of IDN domains.

IDN Internationalized Domain Names- Internationalized Domain Names) are domain names that contain characters of national alphabets, for example, ROSNIIROS.SU

In a nutshell, IDN domains require a special technology for translating Latin characters into national ones. In general, when registering a .SU domain, you can get a domain name not only in Russian, but also in other, more than 250 national languages.

And finally, in this domain zone, again with the help of IDN, single-character names are possible, such as Я.SU

Thus, the three domain zones .RU, .РФ and .SU, like three diamonds, frame the Runet space, mutually complementing each other.

Whose Internet domain is SU, which country does it belong to? The history of the appearance of the domain zone.

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

The .SU domain 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 that is publicly available to the countries of the Union, which would later be integrated into the global Internet network.

What country does the domain zone belong to today? After the collapse of the USSR.SU continued to exist, despite the fact that each former socialist republic began to use its own domain, consisting of two letters. Whose domain was SU in the end? The possibility of free registration in the .SU zone reappeared at the end of 2002, but only for organizations owning 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

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

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

Requirements for registering domain names in the .SU zone.

SU domain registration rules:

• Permissible 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 a domain after the period for which the resource name is registered. The limit period is currently one year.
• Removal from delegation and removal: after the expiration of the registration period, the delegation is terminated. The domain is removed from the registry after the blocking period has ended. 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 will suit the 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 blog
• Networks involved in the distribution of goods and services
• Transport companies

• Reference and historical resources
• Mass media
• Representative offices of organizations on the territory of the former Soviet republics
• Database

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

Pros and cons of the SU domain zone.

• Confidence: 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 details in WHOIS;
• Ability 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;
• Possibility to find an interesting domain: In the SU zone, it is more likely to find a beautiful domain than in RU or RF;
• More neutral than RU or RF: the 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 can mistakenly type .RU instead of .SU in the name. This is due to the predominance of RU domains. But this shortcoming is not serious, since the probability of error is very small. Interested users will still find the resource of interest, regardless of the domain name.

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

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

You can get a SU domain for free when you register on 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.

The price of the SU domain can be lowered 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 subject 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.

If you have landed on this page, it means that you are puzzled by which domain to choose for your site. I hope this article will help you make your choice.

Hundreds of thousands of resources are registered in the RU, SU and RF zones. Almost all owners of future Russian sites, before registering a Domain, are faced with the question of in which zone to register the address for the site, RU, SU or RF? I will try to describe the features of these extensions to make it easier for you to navigate and choose exactly what you need.

RU domains. Suitable for most projects, we can even say that for 100% of the resources of absolutely any subject and activity. Whether it's a business card site for a law firm, a website for a beauty salon, or an online store for children's toys, you can register an Internet address in the "ru" zone for everyone. If the resource has pages in several additional languages, such as English and German, then it is better to register the domain name in the COM or NET zone. It is also more expedient to register in these international zones if your business is aimed at providing services or selling goods not only to residents of Russia, but also to the CIS countries, Europe, Asia, etc.

SU domains. They practically do not differ from RU. Many project owners do not like the combination of letters, but addresses in this zone still have to be registered due to the fact that most of the options in the "ru" zone are already taken. Those. The SU extension is mainly used by those who would like to get a specific address for their project in the RU zone, but there it is already occupied by another resource and, as an alternative, the SU zone is used.

RF domains. They appeared relatively recently, in 2011, and began to gain popularity among the owners of Russian websites. Internet addresses in the RF zone are beautiful, convenient, but not yet very practical. For example, I noticed that when promoting sites search engines Yandex and Google still trust more domain names RU and SU indexing of Cyrillic domain names also takes a little longer. Otherwise, if your business is aimed only at Russian users, then you can register a domain for a site in the RF zone. So far, not all interesting names (words, phrases) are occupied in this extension, and for a couple of years you can easily choose a beautiful domain for the site in the Russian Federation zone.

Have you already decided what extension your future website will have? Now you need to register the address with a reliable registrar. There is a huge selection of services on the Internet, but some of them are not reliable and often there are problems when selling a site or transferring it to another owner. I recommend a reliable service to my clients, where you can

The .SU domain is the national top-level domain of the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although the USSR ceased to exist long ago, the SU domain is still in use today. The SU domain zone was opened for domain registration on September 19, 1990.

But already in 1994 it was suspended due to the appearance of the RU domain zone. And only 8 years later, on December 15, 2002, domain registration for trademark owners became available again. 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 denotes its belonging to any 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, of course, in Russia.

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

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

By registering a SU domain, you can free of charge and at any time:

• change DNS, attach a domain to any hosting or server;
• use our DNS servers, with the ability to independently prescribe the necessary records such as A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, MX, SRV, TXT, as well as specify 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 using hosting;
• enable the domain auto-renewal service - now you will definitely not forget to renew the domain, this will happen automatically (if there are funds on the balance);
• quickly set up a redirect to any site in the panel or, for example, to your account on VKontakte, Facebook, classmates, twitter, LiveJournal, Promodj, Last.fm, YouTube, Instagram and others;
• hide your data in WHOIS (Private Person), if it is supported by the SU domain zone;
• change phone, email, and other available contacts in WHOIS information;
• set up receiving E-mail and SMS notifications about events with domains and account.

Registration of SU domains is carried out around the clock in automatic mode and only for your data. As a rule, the SU domain will be registered within 10-30 minutes after the order is created. To buy a SU domain, enter the desired name in the form above.

Guest writes:
"Avtobazar.SU is worth something, what do you think?"

Domain Avtobazar.SU worthless. Domains A were occupied in 2004 v tobazar. EN and A u tobazar. RU. They will collect visitors from Avtobazar. SU. Moreover, there is already an automotive site on A v tobazar. EN . The visitor will mistakenly write .RU instead of .SU and will not even understand that he has landed on the wrong site that was recommended to him.

Guest writes:
"Does it even make sense to take names in this zone?"

Zona.SU is alive only through the efforts of registrars. Domains in the .SU zone are unsuitable for work. They are only 1% of the domains in the .RU zone. This means that out of 100 people who have forgotten the domain extension, 99 will type it with confidence as .RU. And only 1 will probably remember that the extension seemed to be .SU.

The status of the .SU zone is also unclear. Russia has its own legal geographic domain.RU. Out of respect for the wishes of the Russian registrars, they were left with the old domain.SU, which belonged to the USSR. But if the .RU domain will always remain with Russia, then the .SU domain can be taken away.

For example, the Americans will be offended for Georgia. And in response, the zone.SU will be canceled. And what will you order the owners of promoted sites with .SU domains to do? They will fall hostage to money-hungry registrars and geopolitical games. None of the third countries will stand up for the .SU domain of the dead country.

But if the Americans try to block domain.RU, then there will be a howl all over the world. Each country will try on a similar situation. And, it may even turn out that under the guise, America will be taken away the management of domain zones, so as not to tempt it with power over domains any more. By the way, when America was at war with Iraq, the domain was not blocked from them.

Advice

You should not use domains in the .SU zone for working sites. There is a standard and promoted domain.RU. Work with him.

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Max Kirilenko, selection of names and domains

Beyond su domains, there are huge opportunities! Many firms are already registering names in this domain, so promotion is not far off. In RU, finding a suitable name is quite difficult, while in SU it is quite easy to do. And yet, the advantage of SU over RU is that it covers not only Russia, but also Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and those countries that were part of the former USSR. So think ... which is better. Catch up with RU, it's a matter of time... And these domains will live side by side, but who will have an advantage? My opinion.SU!

champx writes:
"I don't see a difference in the extension. Yes, that's right. It would be a good name..."

You are looking from the point of view of the owner of the resource. With any domain extension, you will memorize it. It is important for you that the left part of the domain caresses your ears and eyes.

But a domain is not a name, it is address. Without a domain extension, a unique domain turns from an address into some kind of name, of which there can be many in the vastness. Why have a website on the Internet whose address most visitors will remember incorrectly?

champx writes:
"In RU, it's quite difficult to find a suitable name, while in SU it's quite easy to do."

For budget organizations in the zone, .SU is quite suitable as a cheap way to get a beautiful name. True, it will redirect visitors to a parallel name in the .RU domain. But for a budget organization, this does not really matter. Once a visitor needs a site, let him remember it. Make a mistake, it's your own fault.

For commercial organizations, it is fundamentally important that the name be remembered by ear. According to statistics, 1,435,866 domains are occupied in the .RU zone and 48,573 domains in the .SU zone. For Russian-speaking visitors, the domain in the .RU zone is expected, and not the domain in the .SU zone. If you remember at least one promoted Russian-language site in the .SU zone, you will be a very good fellow.

I don't want to offend .SU domain owners, but owning .SU domains betrays people who for some reason think it's possible to go against the grain. 30 people buy a domain in the .RU zone, 31 people - in the .SU zone. So, 30 who bought a domain in the .RU zone are more stupid than this 31st who took a domain in the .SU zone? Or do they not have enough money for a domain in the .SU zone? Or do they not like the beautiful names that are in bulk in the .SU zone?

No, all 30 people know about the existence of .SU domains, however, for the convenience of their visitors, they take a domain in the .RU zone.

champx writes:
"And yet, the advantage of SU over RU is that it covers not only Russia, but also Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and those countries that were part of the former USSR."

More precisely, coverage shaft. Before the Union collapsed. Now perhaps only Russia is nostalgic about the Union. And the rest of the ex-USSR countries remember the Union as a nightmare. That is why the CIS as an organization is developing very sluggishly, it is not the European Union.

I will not be mistaken when I say that residents of the ex-USSR countries almost never take domains in the .su zone. If their sites are aimed at a Russian-speaking visitor, then instead of the .SU domain, they will prefer the .RU domain as more promoted. In extreme cases, the domain of your country. But not .SU.

champx writes:
"Catching up with RU is a matter of time... And these domains will live side by side, but who will have an advantage? My opinion.SU!"

It's even embarrassing for me to disappoint you, because most likely you don't deal tightly with domains.

A few "never again":

• Zona.SU will never catch up with zone.RU, no matter how much the Russian registrars would like it. For the same reason that the .Net zone (12 million domains) will never catch up with the .Com zone (77 million domains). Although it is 50 times more difficult to find a suitable name in the .com zone than in the .RU zone.
• The Russian language will never become the world language instead of English.
• The inch measurement system will never completely replace the metric measurement system.
• Left-hand traffic will never be the mainstream in the world
• The number of bits in a byte will never change.

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Max Kirilenko, selection of names and domains

champx writes:
"Nonsense... Active zone expansion in progress"

What is it active? More like a couple of drops a year.

The number of purchased domains is actively increasing, tens of millions a year. And new domain zones appear in piece quantities.

That's when people will be allowed to independently choose not only a second-level domain, but also a first-level domain, then domain zones will really actively expand. Domains of the form Part1.Part2 will become possible, where both parts are chosen by the owner according to his taste.

But we won't live to see it. Breaking through a new domain zone feeds many organizations. Why should they open the free choice of the domain zone to the people and deprive themselves of the feeder?

But even if it suddenly becomes possible to freely choose any domain zone up to 64 characters long for your domain, standard zones will still attract the most people.

The Internet Development Foundation, acting as the administrator of the SU domain, at the end of 2006 resumed active consultations with the International Corporation ICANN, which manages the address space, on the issue of regulating the status of the SU domain.

The uniqueness of the "Soviet" domain zone is associated with a large number of free "beautiful" domain names. The dynamics of registration of new names by Russian citizens in the SU domain is the same as in the COM, BIZ and other domains - as of August 1, 2008, 70,429 sites were registered in SU.

At the same time, in discussions about other domain zones, ICANN has repeatedly stated the need to follow the ISO-3166-1 standard in matters of registration of national domain names.