As of this year, Russia has been officially a part of the World Wide Web for fifteen years with its Internet domain, .RU. The .RU code was developed out of an agreement signed in December 1993 by prominent Russian Internet providers, “The order of RU top-level domain administration”.
Then, on April, 7, 1994 .RU was finally registered on the Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC. The .RU code represents the Russian federation. The first website with the national domain was www.1-9-9-4.ru . This site still exists today on Runet, which is another name for Russian Internet.
Before using the .RU domain, Russia had been using .SU, which stood for Soviet Union. Then in 1993 it wanted its own state domain code, and was assigned the .RU code by the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN), which was a scientific institution. However, Russia was not the first Soviet Union Republic to obtain a national representative domain. Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia and Ukraine all obtained domains in 1992, and Latvia and Azerbaijan obtained domains earlier than Russia in 1993.
Yet, the .RU domain code still seems to be running successfully, and the RU-Center, the regional network service provider still exists.
Julianne Kriner
Russia
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