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Beget Loses Domain Registrar Accreditation for RU and РФ Zones

The Coordination Center for RU and РФ domains has temporarily suspended Beget's registrar accreditation after a cyberattack wiped much of the hosting provider's infrastructure.

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The Coordination Center for the RU and РФ domains has temporarily suspended the accreditation of Russian hosting provider Beget as a registrar in both zones. While the suspension lasts, Beget cannot register new domain names in RU and РФ, nor accept domain transfers from other registrars.

The company remains obliged to maintain all domains registered before the suspension date. According to industry sources, this is a standard procedure applied when a registrar is technically unable to perform its duties. It triggers mechanisms meant to keep existing domains running, for example by preventing the deletion of domains whose registration has expired because of the circumstances.

A cyberattack behind the outage

The suspension follows an incident on the night of 2 November 2026 that disrupted a number of Beget services. The company declared force majeure.

On 3 November, Beget published an analysis of the failure. According to it, the night of 1 to 2 November saw a cyberattack on its IT infrastructure. The attackers gained access to the control layer of the entire architecture and then ran scripts that wiped data. In the cloud infrastructure, covering VPS, S3 and Kubernetes, all data was lost. File backups of VPS machines survived, while CDN settings and IP addresses were lost.

Recovery status

Beget says it has restored everything that could be brought back quickly, and more than 60% of its hosting is running again. The cloud infrastructure, however, has been destroyed. The preparatory stage of the rebuild is complete, and the company has started restoring shared hosting sites from backups and handing VPS backups to users. The control panel works only partially.

For customers, the practical effect is that existing domains stay protected, but anyone planning to register or move a domain through Beget will have to use another registrar until accreditation is reinstated.

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