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Company History


September 2011
RU-CENTER starts accepting Sunrise Registration Requests for .XXX domains

June 2011
RU-CENTER opens online subscription to Domain Names Magazine

June 2011
RU-CENTER supports a Hotline for Reports of Promotion and Sale of Drugs on the Internet

April 2011
RU-CENTER and EKSMO Publishing House present a book Creating Websites at RIF+KIB 2011

March 2011
RU-CENTER announces the merger process with the Hosting Community group of companies.

March 2011
RU-CENTER upgrades its Network Infrastructure

November 2010
РФ TLD General Availability Opens

September 2010
RU-CENTER starts registering domain names in PRO domain zone

September 2010
RU-CENTER launches initiative for TLDs MOSCOW and ÌÎÑÊÂÀ

August 2010
RU-CENTER starts providing services on issuance of SSL certificates

July 2010
RU-CENTER supports the initiative for the introduction of top-level domains intended for cultural and linguistic communities

May 2010
RU-CENTER launches Registration in MSK.RU, SPB.RU, and other geo-domains

April 2010
Geographic third-level domains (.MSK.RU, .SPB.RU, etc.) are being transferred to RU-CENTER

April 2010
RU-CENTER launches TV premium domains

April 2010
RU-CENTER launches domain name registration in BZ (Belize), HN (Honduras), AG (Antigua and Barbuda), LC (Saint Lucia), VC (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), SC (Seychelles), and MN (Mongolia) ccTLDs

March 2010
RU-CENTER is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a conference Domeniny 2010 (\"Domain Fair\")

March 2010
RU-CENTER launches instant messaging service

February 2010
RU-CENTER starts registering .TRAVEL and .AERO domain names, as well as IDN .NAME domains

November 2009
Launch of .РФ Domains Sunrise Registration

November 2009
RU-CENTER launches .NAME domain name registrations

July 2009
RU-CENTER begins providing domain name registration services within MOBI top level domain as an accredited registrar

December 2008
RU-CENTER's CEO elected as a board member of the Coordination Center for TLD RU

November 2008
RU-CENTER presents a book called Domain Wars (in Russian)

November 2008
RU-CENTER supports first WebHiTech Awards ceremony

October 2008
RU-CENTER registers 100,000th gTLD domain name

September 2008
RU-CENTER launches Domain Parking Service

July 2008
RU-CENTER's CEO elected as a head of committee of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)

June 2008
RU-CENTER supports РФ ccTLD initiative

May 2008
RU-CENTER provides UNESCO with data for the book Representing the Languages of Russian and CIS Ethnic Entities in the Russian Segment of the Internet

April 2008
RU-CENTER starts registering IDN domains in SU TLD

March 2008
RU-CENTER supports WebHiTech 2008

November 2007
RU-CENTER receives Runet Prize 2007 for its Domain Auction project

September 2007
1,000,000th .RU domain name registered

July 2007
CMS support for RU-CENTER's web hosting

June 2007
RU-CENTER creates a publicly available resource of geographic data for Russian IP addresses - IPGeoBase

May 2007
RU-CENTER is a title sponsor of Russian Internet Marathon 2007.

April 2007
RU-CENTER starts registering .BIZ and .INFO domain names as an accredited registrar

November 2006
RU-CENTER launches new partnership program - Information Partners

September 2006
RU-CENTER starts providing web hosting and email services

May 2006
Concluding agreement in writing is no longer mandatory for registration of .RU domains

April 2006
RU-CENTER is the first Russian registrar to start providing the Backorder Service. RU-CENTER starts registering .ORG domain names as an accredited registrar

November 2005
RU-CENTER creates a service for estimating the domain value on a secondary market

June 2005
RU-CENTER launches Domain Name Escrow Service

December 2003
RU-CENTER launches a service for evaluating the work of DNS servers

June 2003
Start of General Availability in SU TLD

May 2003
RU-CENTER publicly launches a server with statistics on .RU domains: stat.nic.ru. RU-CENTER starts providing legal services related to domain names

March 2003
RU-CENTER creates a Partner Search System to help clients find our partners in different regions.

January 2003
RU-CENTER is accredited by ICANN

December 2002
RU-CENTER starts accepting requests for Sunrise Registration in SU TLD

March 2002
RU-CENTER launches DNS-Master zone file editor that allows users of Primary-Standard service to edit zone files

February 2002
RU-CENTER starts developing a dealer network by signing partner contracts

November 2001
RU-CENTER creates INFO.NIC.RU - an information source on domain names

September-October 2001
RU-CENTER starts accepting requests for domain name registration in INFO and BIZ TLDs and becomes an official registrar for SU domain

August 2001
RU-CENTER starts providing new services: Primary-Standard, Primary-Auto, Secondary DNS, Web-forwarding, and Mail-forwarding

July 2001
RU-CENTER's work is insured through Ingosstrakh Insurance Company

April 2001
RU-CENTER starts registering domain names in COM, NET, and ORG domains

January 2001
RU-CENTER starts to act independently as a registrar for RU domain

In 2000, RIPN has delegated its functions of registrar for RU domain to RU-CENTER, retaining only the technical maintenance of the Russian national TLD, which marked the beginning of distributed domain registration system in domain RU

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