A ranar 7 ga Afrilu, 1994, Tarayyar Rasha ta karɓi yanki na ƙasa .RU, wanda cibiyar sadarwar kasa da kasa ta InterNIC ta yi rajista. Mai gudanar da yankin shine Cibiyar Haɗin kai don Domain Intanet na Ƙasa. Tun da farko (bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet) kasashe masu zuwa sun karbi yankunansu na kasa: a 1992 - Lithuania, Estonia, Jojiya da Ukraine, a 1993 - Latvia da Azerbaijan.
Daga 1995 zuwa 1997, yankin .RU ya haɓaka da farko a matakin ƙwararru (shafukan gida masu amfani da sunan yanki na biyu ba su da yawa a wancan zamanin, masu amfani da Intanet sun iyakance ga sunayen yanki na mataki na uku ko, galibi, shafi daga mai bayarwa, bayan alamar "~" - "tilde").
Babban girma na yankin .RU ya faru a cikin 2006-2008. A wannan lokacin, yawan ci gaban shekara ya kasance a +61%. Daga 1994 zuwa 2007, an yi rajistar sunayen yanki na mataki na biyu miliyan 1 a cikin yankin .RU. A cikin shekaru biyu masu zuwa adadin ya ninka sau biyu. A cikin Satumba 2012, yankin ya ƙidaya sunayen yanki miliyan 4. A cikin Nuwamba 2015, adadin sunayen yanki a cikin .RU ya kai miliyan 5.
A yau akwai sunayen yanki sama da miliyan 5 a cikin yankin .RU. Dangane da adadin sunayen yanki, .RU yana matsayi na 6 a tsakanin yankunan ƙasa a cikin duniya da 8th a tsakanin duk manyan matakan yanki. Rijista da haɓaka sunayen yanki a cikin yankin .RU ana yin su ta hanyar masu rijista 47 da aka amince da su a cikin biranen 9 da gundumomin tarayya 4 na Rasha.
source: linux.org.ru