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From January 01, 2005 RIPN stops to perform the duties of .RU Second Level Domain Names Registrar. RIPN remains .RU Registry Operator providing technical support of Domain Name Registration System and NameServers for RU ccTLD and registrar services concerning .ORG.RU, .NET.RU, .PP.RU, .COM.RU Third Level Domain Names registration and maintenance. So all the Second Level Domain Name .RU Registration Agreements between RIPN and persons or entities will be terminated from January 01, 2005.

ANO Regional Network Information Center (RU-CENTER) is successor to the responsibilities of RIPN that relate to the domain name registration issues. RU-CENTER is accredited registrar in the RU, SU, NET, COM, ORG, BIZ, INFO TLDs. RU-CENTER was founded by RIPN in 2000 to have responsibility for Internet address space allocation .

Information concerning second level domain registration in RU is on the web-site of RU-CENTER http://www.nic.ru.

RIPN continues to register third level domains in COM.RU, NET.RU, ORG.RU.