Russia uses .ru, .рф, open to registrants worldwide. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 9 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Beget prints the lowest standing .ru price: RUB 420.00 incl. VAT; RUB 199.00 first year, then R01 at RUB 635.00 incl. VAT. Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ accredits 183 registrars to sell .ru; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ru in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Russia, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ
These 185 companies are accredited by the Russia registry to sell .ru, .рф. Every figure below is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29.
Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ publishes 185 registrars under contract for .ru, .рф. Of those, it lists 0 as offering DNSSEC.
We do not reproduce all 185 names here. Any order we printed them in would imply a ranking, and we have tested none of them. The registry's own list is the authority: Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ registrar list, read 2026-09-29.
We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a Russian site, bill in RUB and sell .ru?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Russia rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
The English storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The French and English and Spanish storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English and French and Spanish and Portuguese and Turkish and Ukrainian and Italian and Hungarian and Polish and Czech and Slovak and Croatian and Greek and Indonesian and Swedish and Danish and Finnish storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; RUB has not been established either way.
The German and English and Italian storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The French and Dutch and German and English and Spanish and Portuguese and Italian and Polish storefronts were read and Russian was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
No registrar tracked here is recorded as selling .ru.
Nofails one condition
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .ru: Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
The Coordination Center's list of 185 accredited .RU/.РФ registrars was read at cctld.ru (English version, for Latin names) and nine of the largest retail sellers on it were opened in a real browser; no page was blocked by sanctions or geo-restriction. Two print a .ru price with tax treatment: Beget (199 ₽ first year, 420 ₽ renewal, "с учетом НДС", though it still prints 20%) and R01 (635 руб. "с учетом НДС=22%"). REG.RU, RU-CENTER, SpaceWeb, Webnames and masterhost print rouble prices without НДС wording; Timeweb returned HTTP 502 twice and 2DOMAINS showed no prices.
Ordered by the standing .ru price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 22% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
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Registrar
.ru standing price, incl. VAT
First year
Renewal
source
1
BBegetRussian storefront, bills in RUB
RUB 420.00as printed, Все цены указаны с учетом НДС (20%).
Ordered by the standing .ru price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 22% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .ru price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
RREG.RUThe page prints .ru at 169 ₽ against 226 ₽ but states no tax treatment (no НДС wording).
RRU-CENTERThe page prints .ru as a promotion (747 struck, 219 ₽) but states no tax treatment.
SSpaceWebThe page prints .ru at 189 ₽ per year but states no tax treatment and no renewal price.
WWebnamesThe page prints .ru at 189 ₽ (promotion, 690 ₽ regular) and 1390 ₽ renewal but states no tax treatment.
MmasterhostThe page prints .ru at 175 ₽ registration and 599 ₽ renewal but states no tax treatment.
Not read on 2026-09-29: Timeweb (HTTP 502 on two attempts. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Russia
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Russia.
No registrar we track is recorded as selling .ru at all, so the namespace condition fails before language or currency is reached.
For .ru itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
does not bill in RUB; does not sell .ru; no Russian-language storefront established
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in Russia: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Local presence: No. The published terms contain no restriction on foreign individuals or legal entities and do not require Russian residency. Registrants must supply reliable identification data; a foreign legal entity not registered as a Russian taxpayer supplies a tax identifier or a trade-register identifier instead.
DNSSEC: Signed at the root
IDN: .рф (punycode .xn--p1ai) is delegated separately as Russia's Cyrillic ccTLD.
Unreliable registrant information is grounds for refusing a registration or cancelling it afterwards. Cross-border card payments to and from Russia have been materially disrupted since 2022, which is a practical constraint independent of registry policy.
Purpose: Russia's country code, one of the largest ccTLD namespaces in the world.
Eligibility: Open on paper. No residency requirement for individuals or legal entities. Registrants must supply verifiable identification data; foreign legal entities not registered as Russian taxpayers give a tax or trade-register identifier.
Tracked registrars that sell .ru
None of the registrars we track sell .ru at retail: see the local registrar list below.
The Coordination Center for TLD RU sets the terms and accredits the registrars. Inaccurate registrant information can lead to refusal at registration or cancellation afterwards.
Eligibility: Same terms as .ru, through the same accredited registrars.
Tracked registrars that sell .рф
None of the registrars we track sell .рф at retail: see the local registrar list below.
Punycode .xn--p1ai. A separate delegation; holding .ru does not give you the Cyrillic name.
Namespace map
Registered directly under their root labels
The Public Suffix List records no delegated second-level namespaces under these delegations: a name is registered directly under the root label, at the second level, rather than under a category such as co. or org.
.ruCoordination Center for TLD RUsigned in the root zone
.рф.xn--p1aiCoordination Center for TLD RUsigned in the root zone
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in RUB.
Can a registrar we track handle Russia?
No registrar whose prices we verify sells any of the ccTLDs on this page, so a local or specialist registrar is the only route to them. A global registrar can still hold the .com, which renews from $10.18 at the cheapest seller we verify: many owners here run both.
Russia ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.ru
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
.рф
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in Russia compare. We list 185 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Russian Ruble (RUB), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in Russia?+
Of the 9 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Beget prints the lowest standing .ru price: RUB 420.00 incl. VAT; RUB 199.00 first year, then R01 at RUB 635.00 incl. VAT. Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ accredits 183 registrars to sell .ru; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ru in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Russia, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .ru domain?+
No. The published terms contain no restriction on foreign individuals or legal entities and do not require Russian residency. Registrants must supply reliable identification data; a foreign legal entity not registered as a Russian taxpayer supplies a tax identifier or a trade-register identifier instead.
Which global registrars sell .ru?+
None of the registrars we track sell .ru at retail. The Coordination Center for TLD RU sets the terms and accredits the registrars. Inaccurate registrant information can lead to refusal at registration or cancellation afterwards.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Russia?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Russian Ruble (RUB). Russian registrars invoice in rubles. Cross-border card payments to and from Russia have been materially disrupted since 2022, which is a practical constraint on buying from either direction that has nothing to do with registry policy. Global registrars bill in USD for gTLDs.
What payment methods work in Russia?+
Russian registrars invoice in rubles. Cross-border card payments to and from Russia have been materially disrupted since 2022, which is a practical constraint on buying from either direction that has nothing to do with registry policy. Global registrars bill in USD for gTLDs.
