Yandex Becomes a Ukrainian Site

There is a dedicated channel connecting the Yandex proxy server at UA-IX and Yandex data center in Moscow. All queries of Ukrainian users to resources in yandex.ru, yandex.ua, narod.ru, and ya.ru domains as well as replies to these queries go through the proxy server.

“Many Ukrainian ISPs still have different tariffs for internal and international traffic. By placing our servers at UA-IX, we made Yandex available at the price of domestic Ukrainian traffic,” comments Sergey Petrenko, Yandex.Ukraine CEO. “In addition, Yandex and its services have become almost twice faster for Ukrainian users. We’ll be upgrading our capacities as traffic grows. I would like to give special thanks to our partners from Digital Generation: their specialists provided excellent quality of service and helped Yandex staff implement the chosen technical solution.”

Yandex announced the opening of its Ukrainian representative office and www.yandex.ua portal in September 2005. Today, 700,000 Ukrainian users use Yandex each week; this amounts to around 7% of the total Yandex audience.

Contacts:

Elena Kolmanovskaya, Chief Editor

Dina Litvinova, Head of Yandex PR

Phone: +7 495 739-70-00

Fax: +7 495 739-70-70

E-mail: [email protected]