Beget's registrar accreditation suspended: what it means for .RU and .RF

Since November 3, 2026, the accreditation of the domain registrar OOO Beget has been suspended. The company belongs to one of the largest hosting providers in Russia. As a result, Beget temporarily cannot register new second-level domains in the national .RU and .RF zones, or accept domains for servicing from other registrars.

Domains registered through Beget before the restrictions took effect are not affected. The company is still obliged to keep servicing them, so the owners of those addresses do not need to do anything.

The restrictions come as Beget cleans up after a large-scale cyberattack. The attack destroyed the company’s cloud infrastructure, and VPS backups survived for only about half of its users. The host is now rebuilding the cloud from scratch.

Registrar accreditation is the permission to register domains in a national zone. Registrars in the .RU and .RF zones are accredited by the Coordination Center for the national Internet domain. Without it, a company cannot create new domains or accept transfers.

The attack story has unfolded in steps: KRAKOBIT has already reported that Beget declared force majeure over a massive cyberattack, and then the host reported data loss in its cloud: VPS, S3 and Kubernetes.

Source: iXBT