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History
Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, having just graduated from St Petersburg State University. On 1 October 2006 the domain name vkontakte.ru was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly. In February 2007 the site reached a user base of over 100,000 and was recognized as the second largest player in Russia's nascent social network market. In the same month the site was subjected to a severe DDoS attack which knocked it briefly offline. The user base reached 1 million in July 2007, and 10 million in April 2008. In December 2008 VK overtook rival Odnoklassniki as Russia's most popular social networking service.
On 6 October 2009 the site was launched in 20 international languages. In December 2009 the site had a user base of 50 million, and by November 2010 that had risen to 100 million. On 11 February 2011 VK reverted to user registration by invitation only. On February 2012 VK had a user base over 150 million and VK free registration has been renewed.
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