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Russian Scientific Research Institute of the Development of Social Network, which runs .Ru national domain name's technical service, announced that the number of .RU domains of the second level exceeded one million, compulenta.ru reported.
.RU zone appeared in 1994. In average the number of new names registered in .RU domain increases by 4 percent every month. General increase of the number of domain names for 2006 reached about 60 percent, which listed Russia's domain among world's top ten ones, which develop most quickly.
Hanti.ru became one millionth domain of the second level in Runet. It was registered by Cyberbox Limited on Monday, September 17, as WhoIs service reported.
Registration of the upper level .SU domain, which is used in the area of the former USSR, is seventeen years old on September 19. In 2006 ICANN, which runs domain service on the Internet, announced that national domains of non-existing countries would be closed down. Moreover, the domain of the former USSR was the first candidate for deletion.
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