Hosting provider ELENAHOST has announced reduced prices for domain registration in the .RU and .РФ zones, along with updated terms for SSL certificates — making the basic mechanics of running a website a little less dramatic for the budget.
Lower Entry Bar for National Domains
Registering a domain in Russia’s main national zones now costs 129 RUB per year (approximately $1.44). By modern internet standards, this is the kind of price that no longer requires a separate line in a spreadsheet.
The more curious option is reserved for existing customers. Users with an active VPS or VDS service (excluding daily and promotional plans) can register one domain for just 39 RUB per year, or about $0.44. At that point, the domain costs less than most things that come with a receipt.
SSL Certificates: Still Serious, Just Less Expensive
ELENAHOST has also adjusted pricing for GlobalSign AlphaSSL certificates — a common choice for basic site encryption. The standard price is now 1050 RUB per year (around $11.70).
Customers with an active VPS/VDS ordered for one or two years get slightly better terms: 950 RUB per year, or roughly $10.60. In practice, this means that long-term server rentals quietly reduce the cost of keeping traffic encrypted and browsers calm.
Who Benefits From This
These changes are most noticeable for small websites, early-stage projects, blogs, and test deployments — the kind of setups where domain names and SSL certificates are mandatory, but enthusiasm for extra expenses is limited.
By lowering prices on domains and tying SSL discounts to longer server rentals, ELENAHOST appears to be smoothing out a familiar pain point: infrastructure costs that feel disproportionately annoying at the start of a project.
Put simply, domain registration here no longer resembles a capital investment, and SSL certificates become something you align with server terms rather than argue about internally. Not revolutionary — but definitely easier to live with.