Domain trustee services and WHOIS privacy: what you are buying

A domain trustee supplies the registration identity behind your domain. WHOIS privacy concerns the contact information people can see in a public lookup. If you want to register a .RU or .SU name without submitting your own identity documents to xUID, the trustee arrangement is the part of the service to look at.

At xUID, shared trustee service comes with Base registration: $50/year for .RU or $75/year for .SU. You can choose a dedicated trustee through Private Identity, or a dedicated trustee with abuse protection through Full Bulletproof.

What WHOIS privacy tells you

A privacy service can substitute contact details in a public registration lookup. ICANN’s explanation of privacy and proxy services distinguishes contact privacy from a proxy registration arrangement. Those are useful terms when comparing offers; the requirements for a particular country-code extension come from its own registry.

A listing marked private tells you little about what the provider asks for at checkout. Before buying, check the account information required, how the registration identity works, and whether the advertised price includes that service. A privacy checkbox alone does not answer those questions.

Why trustees come up when buying .RU and .SU

Since September 1, 2026, administrator identification through ESIA applies to .RU and .SU registration and renewal. The Coordination Center’s FAQ explains the requirement. xUID customers do not complete that check themselves: we supply the registration identity through the selected trustee plan.

Registrars also use the terms trusted administrator and local presence. REG.RU describes its trusted-administrator service as a trustee or local-presence arrangement for customers without their own Gosuslugi access. Each provider sets its own onboarding requirements; the name of the service does not tell you whether it asks the customer for documents.

With xUID, open an account using an email and password. You do not submit your name, home address, phone number or identity documents for ordinary domain registration. Our .RU ESIA guide and .SU ESIA guide explain the customer side of that process.

What changes when you pay for a dedicated trustee

Base shares its trustee identity with other customers. Private Identity reserves a registration identity for your account. That separation is the reason to choose the paid plan; Base already includes anonymous signup and a trustee.

Full Bulletproof includes the dedicated trustee and adds abuse-complaint protection within your service agreement, with priority support. It is the option for a project that needs xUID to handle domain complaints. A dedicated trustee on its own does not include that protection.

Domain registration and hosting remain separate purchases. A trustee plan does not supply the server that holds your website. You can connect the name to your existing host by setting its nameservers in your account.

Choose the service before registering the name

Start with the extension and annual budget. Use the .RU trustee page or .SU trustee page to compare the totals, then choose your plan before paying. Base domains cannot move to a paid protection plan after registration.

If you are deciding between shared and dedicated service, our trustee plan guide explains which difference you are paying for and how renewal works.