.ru WHOIS Lookup
.ru is the country code extension of Russia, run by the Coordination Center for TLD RU. Look up a .ru name to see its registrar, its dates and its current state.
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- 2 protocols — RDAP and WHOIS
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.ru WHOIS Lookup: Record Fields and Date Lines
Russia's .ru entered the root zone on 7 April 1994. The registry is the Coordination Center for TLD RU, and WHOIS questions about .ru names are answered by whois.tcinet.ru on port 43. IANA lists no RDAP service for the extension, which leaves that plain-text WHOIS as the only registration source a program can read. The zone uses DNSSEC.
A .ru reply has twelve fields with short lower-case labels. Next to the domain and its name servers come the registrar, a state line that lists several conditions at once, and three dates: created, paid-till and free-date. The holder gets separate lines for an organisation name and a tax number. For neighbouring registries, open the .kz WHOIS lookup or the .tr WHOIS lookup.
About the .ru extension
- Extension
- .ru
- WHOIS server
- whois.tcinet.ru
- RDAP endpoint
- This extension has no RDAP endpoint in the IANA bootstrap registry.
- Registry
- Coordination Center for TLD RU
- In the root zone since
- 7 April 1994
- Fields in a reply
- 12
- Date fields
- created, paid-till, free-date
- Last checked
- 12 August 2026
Looking for whether a name is still free, rather than who holds it? run a domain name search
WHOIS FAQ
When does an expired .ru domain become available to register?
An expired .ru name opens to new registrations on the day shown in its free-date field. The paid term ends earlier, on the paid-till date, and for roughly a month after that the current holder can still renew. If you are waiting for someone else's .ru name to drop, plan around free-date and expect the name to stay taken until then.
Does a .ru WHOIS lookup show who owns the domain?
A .ru WHOIS lookup rarely shows the owner. The org and taxpayer-id lines are reserved for the holder, yet they often arrive empty, and a private person's name, address or email is never published there. When the org line is filled, it gives the name of a company. To reach a holder, follow the admin-contact link, which opens the registrar's own WHOIS page.
What does REGISTERED, DELEGATED, VERIFIED mean in a .ru record?
The three words on the state line answer three separate questions about a .ru name. REGISTERED says someone holds it, DELEGATED says it is published in the .ru zone and resolves, and VERIFIED says the holder's identity has been checked. These values belong to the registry's own vocabulary and do not map one to one onto the EPP status codes of generic extensions.
How can I see how old a .ru domain is?
The age of a .ru domain follows from its created field, which records the moment of registration to the second, in UTC. The whois.com.tr result screen turns that date into an age and also counts the days left until paid-till. The reply has no last-edited date, so WHOIS cannot tell you when the record was most recently changed.
Why are IP addresses shown next to .ru name servers?
The .ru registry writes each name server's IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on the same nserver line as its host name. That tells you at a glance whether a server can be reached over both protocols, without resolving it yourself. In WHOIS replies for generic extensions, the same line carries the host name alone.
What does a .ru WHOIS lookup return for an unregistered name?
For an unregistered name, whois.tcinet.ru replies that no match was found and sends none of the twelve fields. On the result screen that name carries the available label. A .ru name that has never been registered can be taken straight away through any registrar that offers the extension.