Istu.ru is tracked by us since April, 2011. Over the time it has been ranked as high as 79 649 in the world, while most of its traffic comes from Russian Federation, where it reached as high as 2 980 position. All this time it was owned by Izhevsk state technical university, it was hosted by ZAO "Company "ER-Telecom", JSC "ER-Telecom Holding" Izhevsk branch and others. While RUCENTER-REG-RIPN was its first registrar, now it is moved to REGRU-RU.

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