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Mail.ru

Email provider
🌐 mail.ru📍 Moscow📅 Founded 1998🎛 cPanel
30K
Domains · #484
0.01%
Market share
+3.4%
30-day growth
+974
Domains · 30d
cPanel
Control panel
Domain flow 30 days · DNS
+2K
Gained
−1K
Lost
+809
Net
Where clients come from · top sources
Reg.ru+943
nic.ru+152
Where domains go · top destinations
Reg.ru−376
nic.ru−342
beget.com−83
Geographic footprint top markets
🇷🇺Russia77%
🇰🇿Kazakhstan2%
🇺🇿Uzbekistan0%
🇦🇿Azerbaijan0%
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan0%
🇦🇲Armenia0%
🌐Rest of world16%
Top TLDs by domains
.ru74%
.com6%
.kz2%
.su2%
.pro2%
.uz0%
Infrastructure footprint measured by webhosting.today · 2026-09-02
89.8%
Mail self-hosted
129
Median days tracked
Where client domains actually run · top networks by domains
AS-REG, RU13.8%
RU-CENTER, RU13.7%
DDOS-GUARD, RU9.7%
ASGHOSTNET, DE6%
TIMEWEB-AS, RU5.7%
Corporate timeline funding · M&A · milestones
2023
Acquired company Uchi.ru
VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) acquired a 75% stake in the educational portal Uchi.ru, later consolidated to 100% (VK is the acquirer). source
2018
Acquired company ESforce $150,000,000
Mail.ru Group acquired esports holding ESforce (owner of Virtus.pro and SK Gaming) for about US$150 million (Mail.ru is the acquirer). source
2016
Acquired company Pixonic
Mail.ru Group acquired a 100% stake in game developer Pixonic (Mail.ru is the acquirer). source
1998-10-15
Founded
Founded as Port.ru by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov with US$1m initial investment from James Melcher; merged with NetBridge in 2001 to form Mail.ru Group; renamed VK Company Limited in October 2021. source
IPO London Stock Exchange
Mail.ru Group listed ~17% of shares on the LSE at a valuation above US$5 billion; underwriters Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, VTB Capital. source
Company details
Founded1998
HeadquartersMoscow
Control panelcPanel
Total domains30K
Market rank#484
Leadership
Co-founder, former CEO of Mail.ru Group
Co-founder (Port.ru, predecessor of Mail.ru)
CEO (VK Company Limited, formerly Mail.ru Group)
Company facts
CityMoscowWikidata · 2026-08
Domain registered1997-09-27WHOIS · 2026-08
OwnerVKWikidata · 2026-08
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