Ast.ru is tracked by us since April, 2011. Over the time it has been ranked as high as 60 397 in the world, while most of its traffic comes from Russian Federation, where it reached as high as 2 753 position. It was owned by several entities, from OOO "TKO "AST" to LLC "AST Publishers", it was hosted by FastVPS network for VPS, DDOS-GUARD LTD and others. While RUCENTER-REG-RIPN was its first registrar, now it is moved to RU-CENTER-RU.

Ast has a high Google pagerank and bad results in terms of Yandex topical citation index. We found that Ast.ru is poorly ‘socialized’ in respect to any social network. According to MyWot and Google safe browsing analytics, Ast.ru is a fully trustworthy domain with no visitor reviews.