Register a .ru Domain

.ru is the country-code extension of Russia. Check availability below, then register it in a few minutes — from USD 37.90 for the first year.

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.ru domain prices

Every DomainNameAPI account starts on the Reseller tier. Premium and Platinum unlock automatically as your volume grows — the same domain, a lower unit price. Prices are per year and shown in USD.

Reseller

Reseller tier
  • USD 39.90Registration
  • USD 49.90Renewal
  • USD 39.90Transfer
  • USD 79.90Restore

Premium

Premium tier
  • USD 38.90Registration
  • USD 47.90Renewal
  • USD 38.90Transfer
  • USD 79.90Restore

Platinum

Platinum tier
  • USD 37.90Registration
  • USD 44.90Renewal
  • USD 37.90Transfer
  • USD 79.90Restore

See the full price list for every extension we carry

The .ru domain extension

What is a .ru domain?

.ru is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Russia. Country extensions carry a signal that generic ones cannot buy: a visitor in Russia reads .ru as "this business is here". Search engines treat it the same way, which is why a .ru address usually outranks a generic one for local queries.

The .ru registry is operated by Coordination Center for TLD RU. The extension has been in the root zone since 1994 — a long record by the standards of the domain name system, and one reason registrars and hosting companies treat it as a safe default.

DomainNameAPI is an ICANN-accredited registrar. Registration, renewal, transfer and DNS for .ru all run from a single panel — and from a single API, if you would rather automate them.

A .ru name can be 2 to 60 characters long. The registry allows one year at a time, so renewal comes around every twelve months. Turn on auto-renew and it stops being something you have to remember.

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.ru at a glance

These are the registry's own rules for .ru, as our systems read them. They decide what you can and cannot do with the name once it is yours.

Name and term

Extension
.ru
Country
Russia
Shortest name
2 characters
Longest name
60 characters
Registration term
1 years
Renewal term
1 years
In the root zone since
1994

What you can do with it

Name servers
1–13
Non-Latin characters (IDN)
Supported
DNSSEC
Supported
Transfer to us
Not available
Paperwork
None
Grace period after expiry
30 days

How to register a .ru domain

No paperwork, no waiting for approval. Four steps, and the name is live on your name servers.

  1. Search the name

    Type the name you want into the box above. We query the registry live, so the answer is the registry's, not a cached guess.

  2. Pick your term

    This registry sells one year at a time, so the term is fixed. Auto-renew keeps it from lapsing.

  3. Enter contact details

    Registrant, admin, technical and billing contacts. Whois privacy can be switched on at the same time so your address stays out of public records.

  4. Point it somewhere

    Set your name servers, or use ours and manage A, CNAME, MX and TXT records from the panel. Changes reach the registry immediately.

What happens when a .ru domain expires

Most people meet these rules for the first time on the day they matter. Here is the whole sequence for .ru, with the numbers this registry actually uses.

  1. Renewal window Up to the expiry date you can renew at the normal price — 44.90 USD per year. Nothing changes for visitors; the site stays up.
  2. The name stops working On expiry the registry pulls .ru out of the zone. The website and every email address on it go dark the same day. This is the moment most owners notice.
  3. Redemption — 30 days For 30 days the name is still yours, but recovering it costs 79.90 USD instead of the renewal price. Nobody else can take it during this window.
  4. Deletion After the redemption window the registry releases the name and anyone can register it. There is no appeal at this point — the only route back is to buy it from whoever takes it.

None of this has to happen. Auto-renew and expiry reminders are on by default in every DomainNameAPI account, and the API exposes expiry dates so you can wire them into your own alerts.

Moving a .ru domain to DomainNameAPI

.ru cannot be transferred between registrars through the standard process — this registry does not offer it. Whoever you registered the name with, that is where it stays until it expires.

If you need the name managed here, the practical route is to let it expire deliberately and re-register it with us, which only works if you are certain nobody else is waiting for it. Talk to us first — our team will tell you honestly whether it is worth the risk for your name.

.ru domains — the questions we actually get

Registration starts at 37.90 USD per year on the Reseller tier and drops to 37.90 USD on Platinum. Renewal is 44.90 USD. Prices are per year and exclude local taxes, and there is no separate setup fee.

Because registries price the two separately, and registrars often discount the first year to win the sale. We publish both numbers on this page for exactly that reason: the figure that decides what a domain costs you over five years is the renewal one, not the headline.

One year at a time. This registry does not sell multi-year terms for .ru, so the domain comes up for renewal every twelve months no matter which registrar you use.

No. Registering through DomainNameAPI needs contact details and nothing else, and the name is usually active within minutes.

Not through the standard transfer process: this registry does not support registrar transfers for .ru. The name stays where it was registered until it expires.

Not if the name servers stay the same. A transfer moves who bills and manages the domain, not where it points. Keep your existing name servers through the move and change them afterwards, once the transfer has settled.

Yes. .ru supports internationalised domain names, so accented letters and non-Latin scripts are allowed. The name is stored in its Punycode form (the xn-- prefix you sometimes see) and browsers display it correctly.

Yes. The .ru zone is signed, so you can publish DS records and have resolvers verify that the answers for your domain have not been tampered with on the way. Turning it on is a one-time step in the panel.

Between 2 and 60 characters, not counting the .ru part. Letters, digits and hyphens are allowed, and a name cannot begin or end with a hyphen.

.ru accepts 1 to 13 name servers. Two is the practical minimum: if the only one you have goes down, the domain stops resolving everywhere at once.

For 30 days after expiry, yes: restoring a .ru name costs 79.90 USD. After that window the registry deletes it and anyone can register it. Move quickly, because the fee does not come down and the deadline does not move.

A country extension is a geographic signal: search engines read .ru as content aimed at Russia, which helps for searches made there and does nothing for searches elsewhere. Beyond that geographic hint the extension is not a ranking factor. Content and links are.

That is what DomainNameAPI is built for. Search, registration, renewal, transfer and DNS are all exposed over an API, with ready integrations for WHMCS, WiseCP, HostBill, Blesta and ClientExec. The reseller price on this page is what you pay; what you charge your customer is yours to set.

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