Russian third-level domains in the msk.ru and spb.ru zones will be paid.

This fall, third-level domains in the msk.ru, spb.ru, com.ru, net.ru, and pp.ru zones will become paid.

RU-CENTER expects to earn up to 600 million rubles per year from registering these domains. However, the popularity of these domains is due to their free registration, and forcing users to pay for the names will be difficult.

The price for registering new domains and renewing existing ones has not yet been determined. It may be the same as for domains in the .RU zone: 600 rubles.

In total, more than 1 million names are available in this domain zone.

The previous registrar of names in these domain zones was RosNIIROS. This company also registered names in the .RU zone. Since the beginning of this year, technical support for .RU domains has been provided by the Internet Technical Center, which has decided to introduce a fee for these domains.