According to Verisign, the .ru domain zone is in the top ten and is not going to give up its positions.
The study found that the .ru domain ranks 8th in the world list: in 2018, about 5 million sites were registered in this domain zone. .Com overtakes and is the leader with 135 million registrations in 2018.
However, the figure of 5 million registrations is lower. than in the last quarter of 2018. Andrey Kuzmichev, CEO of Ru-CENTER, says that this is due to higher prices for the purchase of domain names.
But Verising associates the decline in registrations with the emergence of new domain zones that are gaining popularity - .online, .pro, .shop, .vip and others, which account for more than 21 million registrations.