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Introduction

As the Internet is being used in increasingly diverse areas of society, the need fordomain names is growing and the area of domain name use is getting broader.
Against this background, the total number of registered JP domain names reached
1.3 million in August 2012.
In the same year, JPRS introduced the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name, a new
second-level name space using the names of all the 47 prefectures in Japan, withan aim to meet the growing demand for domain names.
In the global domain name industry, 2012 marked a year of further development of
the TLD space, with the progress of ICANN＊1 s New gTLD Program and the launchof the applications for new gTLD strings.
On the other hand, we have also seen a number of challenges related to the Internet
infrastructure, such as the spread of damage caused by malware which rewrites
DNS server settings, and the vulnerability of DNS software.
As a company supporting the basis of the Internet society through JP domain names
and DNS management, JPRS is striving to make the Internet safe for everyone touse. To this end, JPRS promptly provides information and deals with risks andchallenges as they arise. JPRS also actively contributes to discussions of global
issues and conveys relevant information to the community in Japan.
In addition to the above, JPRS is committed to its ongoing operations to improve JP
domain name services, develop systems, and carry out promotional activities tofacilitate the use of JP domain names and deliver greater value to users.
The management and administration of JP domain names require a high level ofcommitment to enhancing the public interest and encouraging sound competition.
Recognizing this vital nature of its services and inﬂuence on society, JPRS annually
publishes the Registry Report on its management and administration of .JP
domain names.
JPRS will continue to ensure that JP domain names remain useful and contribute to
the development of the Internet society.

Koki Higashida
President
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.
＊1 ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Registry Report
Index

 Registry Activities
・ Goal of JPRS as the JP Domain Name Registry02

・ Activities in 201203

・ International Relations

06

・ Activities in Japan15

・ Overview of this Term s Activities and Challenges for the Future17

 Statistical Information
・ Change in the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Names

18

・ Breakdown of the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Names

19・ Number of JP Domain Name Registrations by Prefecture20・ Transition of DNS Conﬁguration Rate21

・ Number of Accredited JP Registrars

22・ Number of Complaints Based on JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (JP-DRP)

23

 Reference・ History24・ JP Domain Name Advisory Committee

25

・ Proposals and Presentations

27

・ Press Releases

29・ Provision of Technical Information Related to DNS

30Registry Report01 Registry Activities

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Goal of JPRS as the JP Domain Name Registry

Our main objectives as the registry are: to continuously improve the value of JP domain names; toprovide the registry services that contribute to society; and to gain stronger support from the local andglobal Internet community in an environment where JPRS competes and collaborates with otherregistries of Top Level Domains (TLDs) and similar services.
JPRS deﬁnes the following as the core concepts for the registration and administration of JP domainnames.
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Reliability: establishing domain name space with the public trust●

Stability: operating and administering a stable domain name system (DNS)●

Usability: providing accessible domain name services which meet users needs●

Fee Performance: providing services at reasonable fees

With the mission of supporting the foundation of the Internet, JPRS considers it important to ensure
reliability and stability while pursuing a good balance with usability and fee performance.

02 Registry Report・Activities in 2012

JPRS has contributed to the development of the Internet society and worked to enhance its registry
services and the value of JP domain names in cooperation with the JP Registrars and other relatedorganizations.

14th ThinkQuest JAPAN (March)
JPRS supported the 14th ThinkQuest JAPAN, a Web contest for junior and senior high school
students. JPRS provided 411 General-use JP domain names (both in Japanese and ASCII) freeof charge for 207 works so that they could have original domain names.
JPRS also presented the Best Domain Naming Award to the team who had chosen the mosteﬀective domain name to increase the appeal of their work.

Free Cartoon Booklet on the Internet System Sent to Junior and Senior High Schools
and Technical Colleges across Japan (May)Info-Communications Promotion Month started in mid-May as part ofInternet-related educational activities. In line with this, from May 15 toJune 30, JPRS set up channels including a special webpage (http://マンガで学ぶ.jp) where teachers at junior and senior high schools and technicalcolleges could apply for the graphical comic-style booklet explaining theInternet as educational material. JPRS distributed the booklet free ofcharge to those who applied.
Recognizing the growing importance of Internet-related education andshortage of teaching materials in schools, JPRS has worked on thisproject since 2010, in parallel with the Info-Communications Promotion
Month that starts on May 15 every year. JPRS has published and oﬀered
the booklet for the third year in a row and received a number ofPonta s Great Adventurein the Network
applications from educational institutions across the nation. The number ofcopies distributed in total from 2010 to 2012 amounted to about 70,000.
The booklet is entitled Ponta s Great Adventure in the Network. It contains a story with many
illustrations to help readers learn how the Internet functions, how to reach particular websites andhow the Internet address or domain name works. The result of the survey conducted upon
distribution of the booklet revealed that many teachers appreciated receiving and using it asappropriate teaching material for Internet-related lessons.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2012/120515.html (in Japanese)

Interop Tokyo 2012 (June)At the conference The Threat against DNS and Its
Countermeasure, Tomoya Sakaguchi of JPRS highlighted
recent DNS security threats and measures to cope with the
problems in his presentation entitled Threats against Cache
DNS Servers ‒ Ghost Domain Names ‒.
In its exhibition booth at the venue, JPRS also gavemini-seminars to visitors and provided a basic knowledge ofdomain names and technical information on DNS.
JRPS boothRegistry Report03 Registry Activities

Priority Registration Application of Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Started (July)On July 16, 2012, JPRS started accepting applications for the Priority Registration of thePrefecture Type JP Domain Name.
The Prefecture Type JP Domain Name includes the names of the 47 prefectures in Japan, suchas ○○○.hokkaido.jp, ○○○.tokyo.jp and ○○○.nagasaki.jp . These domain names help toassociate homepages and email addresses with particular regions in Japan.
Prior to the launch of the General Registration service for the Prefecture Type JP Domain Namein November 2012, JPRS implemented two preliminary registration phases, Priority Registration
application period and Concurrent Registration application period. This measure was taken to
avoid potential problems including cybersquatting.
During the Priority Registration period, JPRS accepted applications from trademark holders for thedomain name string that is the same as their trademark string.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2012/120717.html (in Japanese)

Concurrent Registration Application of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Launched(September)
JPRS accepted applications for the Concurrent Registration of the Prefecture Type JP Domain
Name from September 17 to October 21, 2012.
The Concurrent Registration Application period is one of two preliminary registration phases, andwas put in place in order to moderate competition caused by the registration on aﬁrst-come-ﬁrst-served basis.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2012/120918.html (in Japanese)

Visit by Students of Nagano National College of Technology (November)
JPRS explained the role of domain names and DNS as well as JPRS s support for .JP to
students from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science of the Nagano National
College of Technology.

Presentation at the Workshop for JP-DRP Panelists (November)
JPRS outlined the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name in its presentation entitled Overview of thePrefecture Type JP Domain Name at the workshop for JP-DRP panelists and other relevant
parties that was held by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center.

Internet Week 2012 (November)
JPRS supported Internet Week 2012 as a sponsor and assigned Yoshiro Yoneya and Tomoya
Sakaguchi to the Program Committee where they played a leading role in planning the DNSSEC
Tutorial and DNS DAY. Other JPRS staﬀ members also took part in the event by giving
presentations. Masakazu Funato talked about the basics and gave an overview of DNSSEC at the
DNSSEC Tutorial. Takaharu Ui, Yoshitaka Aharen, Naoki Kambe and Shoji Noguchi presented an
update on domain names and DNS, BIND 10 implementationand new gTLDs at DNS DAY.
At a lunch seminar entitled No Child Knows How Dear He Is to
His Parents? Issues Concerning Delegation ‒ Lunch with DNS‒, Yasuhiro Morishita and Satsuki Hori presented a summary of
DNS delegation and the security issues that arose in 2012, anddiscussed the correlation between those issues and DNS
delegation. At the DNSOPS.JP BoF, Kazunori Fujiwara
illustrated the trends of IPv6 queries in .JP.
Internet Week 201204 Registry Report

General Registration of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Started (November)
On November 19, 2012, JPRS started accepting applications for domain names in the Prefecture
Type JP Domain Name space on a ﬁrst-come-ﬁrst-served basis.
The domain names for which applications were received during the Priority Registration period
and Concurrent Registration period (in the case of competition, the names that won) became
active on November 18, 2012.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2012/121119.html (in Japanese)

6th Japan Web Grandprix (December)
The Japan Web Grandprix, the website awards that recognize the best corporate websites,
established the Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS Special Award) in 2012. The Japan Web
Grandprix is a contest founded in 2007 to promote the sound development of Japanese
corporate websites, and JPRS has cooperated with the competition since 2011.
The Best Domain Naming Award is given to a company that selected a domain name that best
promotes its website. The prize was awarded to the winner at the award ceremony held in
December.
The award is intended to remind the public of the importance of domain names in corporatewebsites, and to encourage more eﬀective use of domain names.

Events and Seminars for JP Registrars
May

JP Registrar Seminar ‒ An Introduction to Domain Name Registration and
Administration ‒ for newly accredited JP Registrars
Newly accredited JP Registrars learned about registration and administration ofGeneral-use, Organizational and Geographic Type JP domain names. JPRS also outlined
general information about domain names and JP Domain Name services in the session
entitled Basics of Domain Names.

Jun.

JPRS Technical Seminar for JP Registrars
The session DNS-related Hot Topics covered topics such as ghost domain names,
forewarning of an attack against root servers and countermeasures to the threat. The othersession, BIND 9 Update, discussed the basic understanding of BIND 9, updates
incorporated in BIND 9.8 and BIND 9.9, and their new functions.

Apr.

JP Registrar Seminar ‒ An Introduction to Domain Name Registration and
Administration ‒ for newly accredited JP Registrars
Newly accredited JP Registrars learned about registration and administration ofGeneral-use, Organizational and Geographic Type JP domain names. JPRS also outlined
general information about domain names and JP Domain Name services in the session
entitled Basics of Domain Names.

Oct.

11th JP Partners Meetings for JP Registrars
JPRS held the meetings in Osaka and Tokyo and provided information on updates in thedomain name industry, its service plans including future service changes and information
useful for day-to-day operations. In the session No Technical Knowledge is Necessary!
Technical Description in Plain Words ‒ How to Move your DNS servers, JPRS presented
the proper way to move DNS servers.

Registry Report05 Registry Activities

・International Relations

1. Participation in ICANNICANN is a private non-proﬁt organization established in the
United States in 1998 to coordinate resources underpinning theInternet, such as domain names, IP addresses and root servers.
ICANN holds three public meetings each year in diﬀerent regionsof the world to enable global stakeholders to participate in person
and discuss policies and rules for resource management. In 2012,
ICANN held its 43rd meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, the 44th
meeting in Prague, Czech Republic and the 45th meeting inToronto, Canada.

ICANN meeting in Costa Rica

With the participation of numerous parties interested in ccTLD and gTLD, ICANN has always
functioned as an important forum for exchanging views and debating issues on policies andgovernance concerning domain name management. In recent years, ICANN has also come to play avital role in discussions and information-sharing on technical issues including DNS and DNSSEC.
During 2012, the development of a long-term overall policy for the introduction of IDN ccTLDs
continued to make progress in ICANN. And under the New gTLD Program which has attracted a great
deal of public attention, ICANN started accepting applications for new gTLDs in January 2012,published a list of string applications and applicants in June 2012, and held a Prioritization Draw inDecember 2012 to determine the order in which new gTLDs would be delegated.
In addition, there was a change of the ICANN CEO in 2012. The new CEO, Mr. Fadi Chehadé,
assumed his position in September. He indicated his intention to improve ICANN s operational
excellence by bringing together its staﬀ members in collaborative teams and running the organization
based on partnerships with various stakeholders. In this light, the structural reform of ICANN isbecoming a new focus of concern in the community.
Since its foundation, JPRS has been actively participating in the organization of ICANN and various
policy discussions, and supporting the coordination of Internet resource management led by theprivate sector, with ICANN playing the central role. In 2002, JPRS signed a ccTLD Sponsorship
Agreement with ICANN, and has since been entrusted by ICANN to serve as the registry of Japan s
ccTLD＊1 .jp .
By participating in various organizations established within ICANN, as well as by conducting
presentations and information exchanges at diﬀerent meetings, JPRS assists in policy development
and implementation-planning to cope with issues facing ICANN and registries. Also via ICANN, JPRS
is sharing its experience in JP registry operations with the global community, thereby contributing to
the development of the Internet as a whole.
The following reports JPRS s activities in ICANN organizations:＊1 ccTLD : Country Code Top Level Domain

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（1）ccNSO
ccNSO＊2 is one of the Supporting Organizations set up in ICANN to assist its activities. The roleof ccNSO is to form a consensus in the ccTLD community on global issues concerning the entire
ccTLD space and to make recommendations to the ICANN Board. JPRS has been the member of
ccNSO since its inception in 2003, and Hirofumi Hotta of JPRS has served as a ccNSO Council
member during the same time.
One of JPRS's achievements in ccNSO is the planning and designing of the IDN ccTLD Fast
Track＊3 Process. Since the oﬃcial start of this process in November 2009, 33 IDN ccTLDs havebeen introduced (as of December 12, 2012).
While implementing the ccTLD Fast Track Process, ccNSO is reviewing the permanent policy for
IDN ccTLDs. Major topics of the discussions included reviewing the deﬁnition of character strings
allowed as IDN ccTLDs, as well as redeﬁning ccNSO membership at the introduction of IDN
ccTLDs. To study these issues, ccNSO appointed two working groups in the ﬁrst half of 2010.
Hirofumi Hotta of JPRS has participated in this initiative since it started as an observer in theworking group that discusses the deﬁnition of character strings, and he also chairs the working
group on membership deﬁnition, taking the initiative in reviews and compiling the ﬁnal report.
ccNSO also discusses types and categories of TLD strings that should be recognized as
representations of country and territory names. For example, it considers whether or not old
country names that appeared historically should be acknowledged. ccNSO is presently
conducting a survey in conjunction with UNESCO＊4 to gather data from national administrations
on the ways in which they represent their country and territory names.
Yoshiro Yoneya of JPRS also serves as a member of the project team that is deﬁning a process
to develop and maintain the Label Generation Rules for the root zone, and he is participating in
the drafting and reviewing of the process document.
As a large number of TLDs are expected to be introduced under ICANN s New gTLD Program,
ccNSO is intensely discussing the desirable relationships between ccTLDs̶each of which has
its own policies̶and gTLDs. For instance, it was suggested that both ccTLDs and gTLDs apply
uniform speciﬁcations and operational policies for Whois.
Regarding ﬁnancial contributions by the ccTLDs to ICANN, ccNSO discusses the appropriate
amounts of the contributions as well as its own membership fee. This review was initiated taking
into account the fact that the other ICANN stakeholder organizations expressed discontent withthe current model in which ccTLD registries could select their amounts on their own.
As for the tightening of Internet regulations, ccNSO held a series of panel discussions and called
for ccNSO members to cooperate with their respective governments through information sharing
and other means. ccNSO also expressed concern about the possibility that controversies similar
to WCIT＊5 may arise on various occasions.

＊2 ccNSO: Country Code Names Supporting Organisation＊3 Fast Track : A method designed to enable the timely introduction of a limited number of IDN ccTLDs to meet an immediate need for ccTLDs in＊4 UNESCO＊5 WCIT

non-Latin scripts, while ccPDP, a policy development process for the formal launch of IDN ccTLD, is underway.
: United Nations Educational, Scientiﬁc and Cultural Organization: World Conference on International Telecommunications. A conference hosted by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a
specialized agency of the United Nations.
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01 Registry Activities（2）SSACSSAC＊6, one of the Advisory Committees in ICANN, advises the ICANN community and theICANN Board on issues related to Internet security and stability. SSAC consists mainly oftechnical experts, such as TLD registries, registrars, root server operators, and Internet-related
researchers.
Since 2007, Shinta Sato of JPRS has been participating in SSAC as a member. Using his
experience of working in a ccTLD registry, Sato is committed to ensuring that the Internet
operates stably at the global level.

（3）ICANN KSK Ceremony
The deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone requires that a private key and a public key begenerated with public key cryptography. The procedure to create a pair of keys is generally calleda key ceremony, and the procedure speciﬁcally conducted by ICANN for the root zone is called
ICANN KSK Ceremony.
Root servers are an indispensable foundation of the Internet, so it must be demonstrated to theentire community that there is no fraud or errors in the generation and updating of these keys. For
this reason, prior to holding key ceremonies, ICANN selected 21 TCRs (Trusted Community
Representatives) to participate in the ceremonies as representatives of the global Internet
community. Masato Minda of JPRS was selected as one of the TCRs and was appointed one of
the COs (Crypto Oﬃcer: one of the roles played by TCR) in the ICANN s facility on the West
Coast (in Los Angeles, USA).
Minda participated in key ceremonies held in the West Coast facility in February and July 2012.
The ICANN KSK Ceremony VIII was held in February and was attended by 18 participants,
including Minda and three other COs. At the ceremony, the signatures for the period between April
and July 2012 were created. The ICANN KSK Ceremony X was held in July and was attended by
14 participants, including ﬁve COs. The signatures for the period from October to December 2012were generated as a result of the ceremony. The schedules, status and results of the ICANN KSK
Ceremonies are posted on the ICANN website.
http://dns.icann.org/ksk/＊6 SSAC : Security and Stability Advisory Committee

08 Registry Report2. Participation in IETF
IETF＊1 was established in 1986 by IAB (Internet Architecture Board) to promote standardization ofInternet technologies.
There are a number of Working Groups in IETF that intend to create Internet-related standards invarious technology areas.
Discussion and other activities of IETF are handled via its mailing lists. IETF also holds meetings
three times per year, and these meetings are attended by engineers gathering from around the world.
In 2012, IETF 83 was held in Paris, France; IETF 84 in Vancouver, Canada; and IETF 85 in Atlanta,USA.
JPRS is participating in IETF and working on revision of the protocols for the Internationalized Domain
Name, internationalization of email addresses and standardization of internationalized identiﬁer
processing. The following reports JPRS s activities in IETF:（1）Revision of Internationalized Domain Name Protocol
IDN＊2 refers to domain names in Kanji, Hangul, Arabic and other non-ASCII (alphanumeric)characters, or their technical speciﬁcations. IETF standardized the IDN protocols in 2003 andrevised them in 2010.
To promote IDN, JPRS provides the internationalized domain name tool kit 2 (idnkit-2), which
complies with the latest speciﬁcations revised in 2010, to the community. This tool kit oﬀers API(library) for application developers to make software comply with the IDN speciﬁcations, as well
as a set of tools for system administrators to properly process IDN.
In October 2012, JPRS released Version 2.2 with a revision to the license and compliance with
Unicode 6.0.
http://jprs.co.jp/idn/index-e.html＊1 IETF : Internet Engineering Task Force＊2 IDN: Internationalized Domain Name

Registry Report09 Registry Activities（2）Internationalization of Email Addresses
EAI＊3 is a series of protocol extensions that internationalize email addresses and allow
non-alphanumeric characters to be used in the addresses. EAI was standardized as a veriﬁcation
test protocol in the period from 2008 to 2010. Based on the results of veriﬁcation tests, IETF is
currently drawing up a standard protocol to be applied to practical use. In February 2012, theSMTP extension, an enhancement to the Internet Message Format, and extended delivery status
and disposition notiﬁcations became the standard. Presently, standardization of POP* 4 andIMAP＊5 continues to progress in IETF. Kazunori Fujiwara from JPRS is proposing standard
protocol speciﬁcations (RFC) for part of these protocols and actively participating in thestandardization of EAI.

（3）Promotion of the Standardization of Internationalized Identiﬁer Processing
Internationalized identiﬁers generally refer to identiﬁers consisting of non-alphanumericcharacters (i.e.,internationalized) that uniquely identify domain names, email addresses, andwebsite addresses on the Internet.
To use internationalized identiﬁers, preprocessing is necessary tounify or normalize character types and compatible characters sothat character strings can be matched up correctly. IETF issued
an RFC in 2003 to propose stringprep as the standard methodof preprocessing. Since stringprep refers to the older version ofUnicode speciﬁcations, it needs to be revised.
Accordingly, in June 2010, IETF set up the PRECIS Working
Group (WG) to discuss revisions to stringprep. Yoshiro Yoneya
from JPRS was appointed Co-Chair of the WG to lead its
activities.

＊3 EAI: Email Address Internationalization: Post Oﬃce Protocol. A protocol that allows a user to retrieve emails from a mail server.
＊5 IMAP : Internet Message Access Protocol. A protocol that allows a user to manipulate email messages on a mail server.
＊4 POP

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3. Participation in Registry Associations（1）APTLDJPRS has been a member of APTLD＊1 since 2002. As the registry for JP domain names, JPRS
proposes improvements of APTLD activities, provides information and exchanges views atpresentations and meetings so that the ccTLD community in the Asia-Paciﬁc region can gain
experience and expertise and raise the level of service standards. Yumi Ohashi of JPRS also served
as an APTLD Board member from March 2002 to March 2012.
In 2012, APTLD chose new gTLDs as a key agenda. Taking that into account, Hirofumi Hotta of
JPRS shared information with the other members on the applications for new gTLD strings, backend
registries and the strings proposed by the ccTLD registries. In this way, JPRS contributes as an
Ordinary Member to the activities of APTLD by making presentations and taking part in discussions.
As a variety of languages and scripts are used in the Asia-Paciﬁc region, IDN is one of the importantelements for promoting Internet usage. Applications for as many as 116 IDN gTLDs were received
during the new gTLD application period held by ICANN, which reﬂected the current situation.
Under the New gTLD Program, ICANN will not approve the TLD string if it is so similar to other strings
that it might create possible confusion. Until now, discussion on such points of confusion has
centered on visual similarity of the TLDs. However, countries that widely use phonograms asserted
that phonetic similarity should also be taken into account when judging the possibility of confusion.
This led to the establishment of an APTLD Ad Hoc Working Group on transliterated TLDs, andHirofumi Hotta from JPRS took an active role as a member of the Working Group, which drafted thereport to ICANN.

（2）AP ccTLD Roundtable
On the day before the APTLD Members Meeting in November 2012, eight major ccTLD registries
from the Asia-Paciﬁc region including JPRS gathered to share information and discuss key issues
such as:1) Government involvement in the management and administration of ccTLDs administered byregistries; and2) Contractual relationships among registries, registrars and registrants.
In the discussion on government involvement in 1), the participants shared the understanding thateven though models of involvement were speciﬁc to countries and economies, each government
played a certain role as a member of the community in maintaining the proper operation of the
ccTLD for the country or economy in question, without intervening in the day-to-day operations of
the domain.
Regarding contractual relationships in 2), it was noted that most of the ccTLDs present had
contracts between registries and registrars, registrars and registrants, as well as between
registries and registrants. This framework enables the registry in question to have ultimate
responsibility for the ccTLD.

＊1 APTLD : Asia Paciﬁc Top Level Domain Association

Registry Report11 Registry Activities（3）CENTR
CENTR＊2 is an association consisting of ccTLD registries mainly in Europe. As an Associate
member, JPRS shares information and exchanges opinions with other CENTR members.
In 2012, JPRS participated in surveys on the requirements for registrar accreditation andcustomer support. JPRS also surveyed CENTR members on how their respective governments
were promoting DNSSEC.
CENTR held meetings in Vienna, Austria in February and in Frankfurt, Germany in June 2012.
At the February meeting, Hirofumi Hotta of JPRS gave a presentation on the scheme and targetof DNS blocking being applied in Japan to cope with child pornography, and on the status ofeﬀorts made by the Internet Content Safety Association and ISPs.
In the June meeting, Hirofumi Hotta introduced the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name that was
created by restructuring the Geographic Type JP Domain Name with an aim to make it moreuser-friendly and help revitalize local communities in Japan. He also shared JPRS s support
system and measures that the staﬀ were taking to maintain quality customer relations.
Counterpart CENTR members asked JPRS many questions about the sales staﬀ of JP Registrars
since the sales representatives of each registrar are not very commonly known to them.

＊2 CENTR : Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries

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4. Other International Activities（1）Submission of Comments to ITU in Response to Notice of Inquiry
JPRS submitted its comments in response to a solicitation for opinions by the ITU ＊1. The ITU called
for public comments with regards to the Draft of the Future of ITR＊2 , a compilation of proposed
amendments to ITRs, or any other matter related to WCIT.
In its comments, JPRS pointed out that the speed of the growth and development of the Internet had
relied on a framework based on the open and bottom-up multistakeholder model of governance. JPRS
also expressed its hopes that ITRs and WCIT would not adversely aﬀect that original framework of theInternet.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2012/121105.html（2）Participation in the DotAsia Organisation
The DotAsia Organisation is the sponsoring organization and registry for the .asia top leveldomain. It is a not-for-proﬁt organization incorporated in Hong Kong and contributes its proceedsof the .asia registration services toward promoting the Internet in the Asia-Paciﬁc region bycarrying out various community projects.
The DotAsia Organisation s Internet advancement initiatives include: the Secretariat of Asia
Paciﬁc Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and the Asia Paciﬁc Next Generation(APNG) Camp, capacity building of the younger generation through the NetMission Ambassadors
Program and promotion of the One-Laptop-Per-Child movement in the Asia-Paciﬁc region.
JPRS has participated in the DotAsia Organisation as a Sponsor Member since its foundation,
and Atsushi Endo of JPRS plays a role in its organizational operation as one of the Board
Directors.

（3）Participation in Root DNS Server Operator Organizations Meetings
IETF holds meetings three times a year, and representatives of root DNS server operator
organizations meet on the ﬁrst day of each meeting. JPRS has been participating in thesemeetings as one of the organizations in charge of M-Root DNS server operations. At thesemeetings, attendees share information principally on the stability of server operations and topics
related to the latest technology.
In 2012, the participants discussed a method of simultaneous data collection at root server
instances and ways to continue stable operation of the root DNS servers after the introduction of
the new gTLDs.

＊1 ITU＊2 ITR: International Telecommunication Union: International Telecommunication Regulations

Registry Report13 Registry Activities（4）Participation in the BIND 10 Development Projec
BIND is the DNS server software most widely used on the Internet. In April 2009, ISC＊3, a
non-proﬁt organization in the United States, announced a plan to improve the security androbustness of this software and set up a project to develop the next-generation BIND 10. JPRS
supports the objectives of this project and participates in it as one of the Founding members.
This project is sponsored by many TLD registries around the world, including JPRS, CIRA (.ca)
and DENIC (.de).
Since the outset of the project, JPRS has been oﬀering not only ﬁnancial support but also humanresources, assigning its engineers, Kazunori Fujiwara, Naoki Kambe and Yoshitaka Aharen to thedevelopment team. In 2012, the project accomplished Alpha, Alpha 2 and Beta releases of theauthoritative DNS server, and ISC started seeking testers from the community. JPRS began ﬁeld
tests of BIND 10 and is providing feedback about detected problems and proposed improvements
to the development team.

（5）Activities in Academic Societies
JPRS is conducting ongoing research on DNS. In 2012, Takeshi Mitamura and Kazunori Fujiwaraof JPRS submitted their ﬁndings to the international societies, SAINT 12＊4 and ICDM 2012＊5,
respectively. Both of their papers were accepted and they presented them at each conference.
●

Paper presented at SAINT 12
Title: DNS traﬃc analysis -- Issues of IPv6 and CDN -Authors: Kazunori Fujiwara, Akira Sato and Kenichi Yoshida●

Paper presented at ICDM 2012
Title: Viewers side analysis of social interests
Authors: Takeshi Mitamura and Kenichi Yoshida（6）Certiﬁcate Granted in Commemoration of 25th Anniversary of .JP
In March, ICANN granted a silver anniversary certiﬁcate to the
TLDs including .JP that commemorated their 25th anniversary
in 2012. .JP received ICANN s recognition for its 25 years ofcontinuous and stable operation since its initial delegation to
Mr. Jun Murai in 1986 up to the present date when JPRS now
serves as the delegate. The certiﬁcate was given to each of the
27 TLD managers that started operation between 1985 and1987.
Certificate celebrating the 25th anniversary of the TLD＊3 ISC: Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
: The 12th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet＊5 ICDM 2012 : The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining＊4 SAINT 12

14 Registry Report・Activities in Japan（1）Participation in the JApan Network Operators GroupThe JApan Network Operators Group (JANOG) is theorganization established to promote the smooth operation of
networks through discussions and information-sharing among
network operators to contribute to Internet users and engineers.
The members discuss various issues on a mailing list andgather at JANOG meetings held twice a year.
In 2012, the JANOG Meetings were held in January and July.
For the January meeting, JPRS supported JANOG as one of thesponsors and assigned Ryosuke Sekido to assist in the meetingarrangements as a member of the Steering Committee.

JANOG29 Meeting

At the JANOG29 Meeting held in January, Masato Minda of JPRS gave a presentation entitled
Are AAAA Filtering and DNSSEC＊1 Compatible? and introduced a study on the impact of
DNSSEC validation implemented by applications enabled with the option to ﬁlter AAAA recordsof BIND 9.
The JANOG30 Meeting held in July marked a milestone of 30 meetings and the 15th anniversaryof JANOG. In commemoration, the meeting schedule for JANOG30 was extended from the usual
two days to three days, and a Celebration of JANOG s 15th Anniversary Event was held on July
4th, the ﬁrst day of the conference.
JPRS published the progress of these JANOG Meetings as part of the Report on Domain Name
Related Meetings available on its website.
http://jprs.jp/related-info/event/2012/0119JANOG.html (in Japanese)
http://jprs.jp/related-info/event/2012/0803JANOG.html (in Japanese)（2）Participation in the DNS Operators Group, JapanThe DNS Operators Group (DNSOPS.JP) was established in 2006 with the intention ofcontributing to the stable operation of the Internet through the administration of DNS. Yasuhiro
Morishita of JPRS participated in the establishment as one of the founding members.
DNSOPS.JP serves as a forum where DNS operators can exchange and share information anddiscuss related issues.
At the DNS Summer Days 2012 held from August 31 to September 1, JPRS gave tutorials withan overview of DNS. Tomoya Sakaguchi of JPRS shared an update of BIND 9, and Yasuhiro
Morishita summarized DNS delegation in a session entitled Various Issues Surrounding
Delegation.

＊1 DNSSEC : DNS Security Extension

Registry Report15 Registry Activities（3）Participation in DNSSEC JapanDNSSEC Japan was founded in 2009 to introduce anddisseminate DENSSEC smoothly in Japan, and it subsequently
handed over its achievements to the DNS Operators Group(DNSOPS.JP) in March 2012. JPRS actively participated in
DNSSEC Japan as a member and the Secretariat, with Yoshiro
Yoneya of JPRS serving as Vice Chair.

DNSSEC Ready Logo

In 2012, the Operational Technology Working Group of DNSSEC Japan studied cases of failure
seen in organizations that were early adopters of DNSSEC and published its report.
The Logo Working Group developed and published the DNSSEC Ready Logo and DNSSEC
Ready Checklist that could be used by organizations to indicate that their services or products
were DNSSEC aware. The results of their activities are posted on the DNSSEC Japan website.
In the DNSSEC 2012 Spring Forum held by DNSSEC Japan in April 2012, JPRS staﬀ members
gave presentations and shared updates. Shinta Sato talked about the deployment of DNSSEC for
the root zone and .JP. Yoshitaka Aharen provided an overview of DNS and DNSSEC. At the
DNSOPS.JP BoF, Yasuhiro Morishita explained ghost domain names, a vulnerability which had
been warned of in February 2012.
http://dnssec.jp/ (in Japanese)（4）Participation in ICANN Debrieﬁng Sessions
Since 2001, JPRS has been reporting the latest ccTLD trends to the Japanese Internet
community at ICANN Debrieﬁng Sessions held jointly by the Japan Network Information Center(JPNIC) and Internet Association Japan (IAjapan).
In 2012, the sessions were held in May, July and November. Hirofumi Hotta and Yuri Takamatsuof JPRS reported on issues concerning IDN ccTLDs and other subjects considered in ccNSO anddiscussed ICANN-related issues with the other attendees.

（5）Participation in IETF Reporting Session
In 2012, ISOC-JP held the IETF Reporting Session in December. Kazunori Fujiwara of JPRS
gave a presentation entitled Report of IETF 85 ‒ DNS and Internationalization ‒ and reported
on the status of the working groups concerned with DNS and internationalized email addresses.

16 Registry Report・Overview of this Term s Activities andChallenges for the Future

JPRS has constantly worked to strike a proper balance among reliability, stability, usability, andfee performance, which constitute the basis of JP domain name registry services, while also
improving each of the four values.
To respond to expanding needs and enhance the usability of the JP Domain Name, JPRS has
considered measures to make Geographic Type JP Domain Name more user-friendly. As a result,it introduced Prefecture Type JP Domain Name, a domain name space using the names of the
47 prefectures in Japan, in 2012. As of the end of December 2012, one month after the start of
the General Registration, more than 8,000 domain names were registered. This number ofregistrations largely exceeded that of the Geographic Type JP Domain Name.
JPRS, as the JP domain name registry, conducted activities to disseminate information andpromote understanding of domain names and DNS. At the international level, it continued its
participation in the policy development for the introduction of IDN ccTLDs. JPRS also contributed
actively to the standardization of protocols by proposing RFCs for email addressinternationalization.
As part of its Internet-related educational support activities, JPRS has distributed a free booklet
on how the Internet works to educational institutions across Japan for three years in a row. For a
Web contest for junior and senior high school students, JPRS provided free JP domain names andpresented the Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS Special Award)
The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011 has added further weight to need for the
reliability and stability of the Internet infrastructure. Against this backdrop, JPRS reviewed thenumber of servers and the network architecture for JP domain name services in 2012 to ensure
the stability of the domain name system and continuity of services in the event of a disaster.
For the future, JPRS plans to further reinforce and implement the disaster service structure. Oneof the challenges is to readjust the balance between publication of the JP domain nameregistration data through Whois, which is required from the viewpoint of autonomous, distributedand cooperative systems of the Internet, and the protection of personal information, which isdemanded especially in the case of domain name registrations by individuals. This issue is underdiscussion in the JP Domain Name Advisory Committee.
As the registry of JP domain names, JPRS will continue its eﬀorts to provide better and stable
services.

Registry Report17 Statistical Information

Change in the Cumulative Number ofRegistered JP Domain Names

・As of January 1, 2013, the cumulative number of registered JP domain names reached 1,318,715,
an increase of 60,329 in one year.
1500000(Number of names)
Organizational/Geographic Type

1350000

General-use

1200000

Prefecture Type

1050000
9000007500006000004500003000001500001993/01 1994/01 1995/01 1996/01 1997/01 1998/01 1999/01 2000/01 2001/01 2002/01 2003/01 2004/01 2005/01 2006/01 2007/01 2008-01 2009/01 2010/01 2011/01 2012/01 2013/01(Number of names)

Year/ Month

Organizational/
Geographic Type

General-use(Japanese domain name)

Prefecture Type
(Japanese domain name)

Total

1993/01

953

953

1994/01

1,341

1,341

1995/01

2,206

2,206

1996/01

4,781

4,781

1997/01

15,477

15,477

1998/01

33,73933,7391999/01

58,54958,5492000/01

124,573

124,573

2001/01

234,294234,294

2002/01

283,340

183,499（ 61,507）

466,839

2003/01

297,413205,493（ 51,544）

502,906

2004/01

309,193245,100（ 45,402）

554,2932005/01

327,742

317,455（ 63,324）

645,197

2006/01

346,340

439,784（116,602）

786,124

2007/01

363,768

518,557（124,153）

882,325

2008/01

378,903609,983（141,858）

988,886

2009/01

389,598

674,133（134,921）

1,063,731

2010/01

399,339

740,820（133,754）

1,140,159

2011/01

406,856

791,249（123,711）

1,198,105

2012/01

413,332

845,054（119,337）

1,258,386

421,606

888,657（122,394）

2013/01＊Please refer to

18 Registry Report

Domain Name Statistics (http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/) for the latest information.

8,452（1,915）

1,318,715

・Breakdown of the Cumulative Number ofRegistered JP Domain Names*As of January 1, 2013
Prefecture Type

0.6%

Organizational/
Geographic
Type

ED：1.1%
GO：0.2%
GR：1.7%
LG：0.4%
NE：3.8%
OR：6.9%Geographic Type：0.6%

CO：84.4%

32.0%
General-use

67.4%

AC：0.8%AD：0.1%(Number of names)

JP Domain Name Types
AC: Higher education institution
AD: JPNIC Member
CO: Company
ED: Primary school, junior and senior high school

Organizational/
Geographic Type

1 Jan 2013
Number ofRegistrations

1 Jan 2013
Number ofRegistrations

Difference

3,537

3,530

+7

268

273

ー5

355,942

347,999+7,943

4,777

4,692

+85

656

739

ー83

GR: Group

7,281

7,428

ー147

LG: Japanese local authority

1,836

1,842

ー6

GO: Japanese government

NE: Network service

15,82016,345ー525

OR: Judicial body other than company

28,94827,890+1,058

2,541

2,594

ー53

Geographic Type

General-use(Japanese domain name)888,657（122,394）

Prefecture Type
(Japanese domain name)

8,452（1,915）

Total JP Domain Name Registration

1,318,715

845,054（119,337）+43,603（+3,057）+8,452（+1,915）

1,258,386+60,329*Please refer to Domain Name Statistics (http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/) for the latest information.

Registry Report19 Statistical Information

・

Number of JP Domain Name Registrations
by Prefecture
As of January 1, 2013＊

Prefecture

Organizational/ Geographic Type

General-use

Prefecture Type

Hokkaido

2.8%

2.1%

1.9%

Aomori

0.5%

0.3%

0.2%

Iwate

0.4%

0.3%

0.2%

Miyagi

1.3%

0.8%

0.3%

Akita

0.4%

0.2%

0.1%

Yamagata

0.6%

0.3%

0.2%

Fukushima

0.8%

0.4%

0.3%

Ibaraki

1.4%

1.0%

0.3%

Tochigi

1.0%

0.5%

0.2%

Gunma

1.1%

0.7%

2.1%

Saitama

4.2%

2.8%

2.8%

Chiba

3.1%

2.5%

2.4%

Tokyo

32.7%

44.1%

42.8%

Kanagawa

6.7%

5.3%

3.0%

Niigata

1.2%

0.7%

0.4%

Toyama

0.7%

0.4%

0.8%

Ishikawa

0.7%

0.5%

0.3%

Fukui

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Yamanashi

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Nagano

1.4%

0.9%

0.6%

Gifu

1.2%

0.7%

0.3%

Shizuoka

2.3%

1.7%

0.7%

Aichi

5.5%

3.6%

2.0%

Mie

0.8%

0.6%

0.4%

Shiga

0.6%

0.5%

1.0%

Kyoto

2.1%

2.7%

6.1%

Osaka

9.6%

12.7%

14.8%

Hyogo

3.1%

2.5%

2.5%

Nara

0.6%

0.5%

0.7%

Wakayama

0.4%

0.3%

0.1%

Tottori

0.2%

0.2%

0.0%

Shimane

0.3%

0.2%

0.0%

Okayama

1.1%

0.8%

0.4%

Hiroshima

1.6%

1.1%

1.8%

Yamaguchi

0.5%

0.3%

0.3%

Tokushima

0.3%

0.3%

0.0%

Kagawa

0.5%

0.4%

0.2%

Ehime

0.6%

0.5%

0.3%

Kochi

0.3%

0.2%

0.1%

Fukuoka

3.0%

2.8%

5.7%

Saga

0.3%

0.2%

0.1%

Nagasaki

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Kumamoto

0.7%

0.6%

0.2%

Oita

0.4%

0.4%

0.3%

Miyazaki

0.4%

0.4%

0.2%

Kagoshima

0.5%

0.4%

1.4%

Okinawa

0.6%

0.6%

0.9%

20 Registry Report・Transition of DNS Conﬁguration Rate
*As of January 1, 2013

100

(%)

90

80

70
Organizational/Geographic Type60

General-use
Prefecture Type50
2011/01

2012/01
2

Year/Month

Organizational/Geographic Type

General-use

2011/01

98.7%

93.1%

2012/01

98.9%

93.9%

2013/01

99.0%

95.3%

2013/01

Prefecture Type

71.0%

Registry Report21 Statistical Information

・

Number of Accredited JP Registrars

Organizational/Geographic
Organizatio
phic Type600

General-use
Gene
eral-ussePrefecture Type

(Number of Registrars))

500
400
300
200
100
0

2001/04

2002/01 2003/01

2004/01

2005/01

2006/01

2007/01

2008/01

2009/01

2010/01

2011/01

2012/01

2013/01(Number of Registrars)

Year/ Month

Organizational/
Geographic Type

General-use

Prefecture Type443

2001/04

Total
443

490

490

2003/01

560

546

1,106

2004/01

557

559

1,116

2005/01

553

564

1,117

2006/01

562

576

1,138

2007/01

559

572

1,131

2008/01

557

573

1,130

2009/01

558

577

1,135

2010/01

555

577

1,132

2011/01

563

582

1,145

2012/01

571

590

2002/01

2013/01

566

586

1,161
197

1,349

＊The number of JP Registrars for the Organizational/Geographic Type JP domain names is the figure after April 2002 when management andadministration was transferred from JPNIC to JPRS.

22 Registry Report

・

16

Number of Complaints Based on JP Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy (JP-DRP)(Number of cases)

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

(Number of cases)

Year

Number

2000

2

2001

11

2002

6

2003

7

2004

4

2005

11

2006

8

2007

10

2008

3

2009

9

2010

7

2011

12

2012

15

＊For details of domain name disputes, please refer to theDomain Name Dispute Resolution Policy(DRP) posted by Japan Network Information Center (http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/drp/) (in Japanese).

Registry Report23 Reference

・History

2000
2001

Dec.
Feb.
Apr.
May

JPRS was established.
General-use JP Domain Name Priority Registration Application started.
General-use JP Domain Name Concurrent Registration Application started.
General-use JP Domain Name First-Come First-Served Registration Application started.

2002

Feb.
Apr.
Oct.

ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement was concluded with ICANN.
Management and administration of .JP TLD was transferred from JPNIC to JPRS.
LG.JP was established.
JPRS started distributing a plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer®, i-Nav™.

2003

Jan.
Jun.
Jul.
Dec.

The cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded 500,000.
JPRS received the approval from ICANN to start IDN service.
RFC-based Japanese JP Domain Name registration service started.
Japanese JP Access Site (http://jajp.jp/) for mobile phones was established.

2004

Feb.

IP Anycast technology was introduced in JP DNS service ([a.dns.jp] [d.dns.jp]).
Nihongo JP Navi service was started.
JP domain name started full support for IPv6, for the ﬁrst time in the world as a TLD.
The portal site Nihongo dot JP (http://日本語.jp/) for promoting Japanese JP Domain Name waslaunched.

Jul.
Dec.
2005

Jan.
Jun.
Dec.

2006

Jan.
Apr.
Sep.

Nov.
Dec.
2007

JPRS started deleting improper DNS server registrations.
JPRS shortened the processing time for JP DNS update.
JPRS changed the number of GO.JP domain names which each government organization canregister.
Japanese JP domain names (for public administration, judiciary and legislative process) reserved
for the government were released for relevant government organizations.
The cumulative number of registered General-use JP domain names exceeded 500,000.
JPRS published guidelines for making URLs consisting of Japanese domain names clickable inemail text.

Dec.

The cumulative number of registered CO.JP domain names exceeded 300,000.
Procedure for recovering deleted domain name registration was introduced for General-use JP
Domain Name.
IP Anycast technology was introduced to the JP DNS service ([e.dns.jp]).

2008

Mar.
Jun.
Oct.

The cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded one million.
JPRS started the real-time application process service for CO.JP Domain Name.
The JP DNS server conﬁguration was changed (c.dns.jp and g.dns.jp added).

2009

Apr.
Nov.

JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project.
JPRS extended the coverage of the real-time application process service.

2010

May

JPRS distributed a cartoon booklet How the Internet Works free of charge to junior andsenior high schools across Japan.

2011

Jan.
Feb.
Sep.

JPRS deployed DNSSEC to the JP domain name service.
The cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded 1.2 million.
JPRS published DNS Practices , a book on DNS, written by JPRS engineers.
JPRS decided to establish Prefecture Type JP Domain Name .

Jul.
Aug.
Sep.
Nov.

Priority Registration Application of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name started.
The cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded 1.3 million.
Concurrent Registration Application of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name started.
General Registration Application of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name started.

2012

Jan.
Mar.

The portal site Jinmei Jiten dot JP (http://人名事典.jp/) to introduce Japanese JP domain names
using personal names was launched.
Work on eliminating risks due to improper management of DNS servers was started.
Eki Machi Guide (http://駅街ガイド.jp/), which provides information on areas around stations
using Japanese JP domain names consisting of station names throughout Japan, started.
JPRS started operation of the M-Root DNS server in cooperation with the WIDE Project.

24 Registry Report・JP Domain Name Advisory Committee

The JP Domain Name Advisory Committee was established in 2002 in order to maintain fairness andneutrality of the .JP registry operations. The committee members from outside of JPRS with various
viewpoints consider policies for JP domain name services.

（1）
Consultations and Advisories
Consultation Date
Document No.

Advisory Date
Document No.

Relaxation of 1-domain-name-per-organization
limitation on Organizational/Geographic Type JP
Domain Name in case of organizational mergers

Sep. 6, 2011
JPRS-ADV-2011001

Mar. 9, 2012
JPRS-ADVRPT-2011001

Registration data collected by the registry anddisplay of registrant names via Whois

Sep. 10, 2012
JPRS-ADV-2012001(under consideration)

Method for appointing the members of the 7th JP
Domain Name Advisory Committee

Dec. 13, 2012
JPRS-ADV-2012002(under consideration)

Consultation / Advisory＊For details about consultation and advisory themes, please refer to

JP Domain Name Advisory Committee (http://jprs.jp/advisory/) (in Japanese).

Registry Report25 Reference（2）Advisory Committee Meetings
Feb. 2040th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting

A basic agreement was reached on the draft advisory report developed according to
the discussion at the 39th meeting on the inquiry Relaxation of
one-domain-name-per-organization limitation on Organizational/Geographic Type JP
Domain Names in case of organizational mergers.
May 31

41st JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting

JPRS explained its response to the report Relaxation of
one-domain-name-per-organization limitation on Organizational/Geographic Type JP
Domain Names in case of organizational mergers (JPRS-ADVRPT-2011001).
JPRS summarized the state of the JP Domain Name and the other topics related todomain names, and the committee members made various comments on thesubject.
Mr. Koichi Endo, a member of the 6th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee,
expressed his intention to resign. The committee decided to recommend Mr. Yoshio
Takeyama as the member representing businesses to JPRS.
Sep. 1042nd JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting

Mr. Koichi Endo resigned from the 6th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee. It
was reported that Mr. Yoshio Takeyama was appointed as his successor.
Committee members oﬀered comments on the inquiry Registration data collectedby the registry and display of registrant names via Whois (JPRS-ADV-2012001)
submitted by the JPRS Board of Directors.
Dec. 1343rd JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting

An outline of the draft advisory report on the inquiry Registration data collected by
the registry and display of registrant names via Whois (JPRS-ADV-2012001) was
explained. The outline was developed based on the discussion at the 42nd
Advisory Committee meeting. The committee members provided comments on thecontent of the outline.
The committee members expressed opinions on the inquiry Method of appointing
members of the 7th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee (JPRS-ADV-2012002)
submitted by the JPRS Board of Directors.

26 Registry Report・Proposals and Presentations*Original materials are written in English, unless otherwise specified.

Date

Title

At

Hosted byJan. 20

Are AAAA Filtering and DNSSEC Compatible?

JANOG29 Meeting

JANOG
（＊1）

Feb. 2

DNS Blocking against Child Pornography- Japan update -CENTR GACENTR (＊2)

Mar. 25

Number of possible DNSSEC Validators
seen at JP, 1 year difference

IEPG Meeting

IEPG (＊3)

Mar. 29PRECIS Mappings

IETF83 precis WG Meeting

IETF (＊4)

IETF83 dnsop WG Meeting

IETF

DNSOPS.JP BoF

DNSOPS.JP (＊5)

DNSSEC 2012 SpringForum
DNSSEC 2012 SpringForum

DNSSEC Japan (＊6)

Apr. 25DNSSEC KSK rollover failure recovery
practices
10-minute Brief on the Relationship between
Ghost Domain Names and the DNS Penetration Issue

Apr. 25

DNS and DNSSEC

Apr. 25

Status of Root/.JP

May 8

Report on ccNSO-related Issues

ICANN Debriefing Session JPNIC（＊7）/IAjapan（＊8）

Jun. 4DNSSEC KSK rollover failure recovery
practicesJun. 4A method for large PCAP file analysis andpreliminary results of JP DNS query measurement

26th CENTR Technicalworkshop26th CENTR TechnicalworkshopJun. 6

Short Introduction"Launching Prefecture-SLDs under .JP"

CENTR Admin Workshop

Jun. 13-15

Basics of Domain Names and DNS

Interop Tokyo 2012

Mar. 30DNSSEC Japan

CENTR
CENTR
CENTR
Interop Tokyo 2012
Steering Committee (＊9)
Interop Tokyo 2012
Steering Committee
Interop Tokyo 2012
Steering Committee

Jun. 15

The Proper Way to Move Your Servers(in DNS Context) ? ‒ Felt As If They Never Switch? ‒Threats against Cache DNS Servers- Ghost Domain Names ‒Jun. 21

New gTLDs and ccTLDs

APTLD Members Meeting

APTLD(＊10)

Jul. 19

DNS traffic analysis-- Issues of IPv6 and CDN --SAINT 12SAINT(＊11)

Jul. 31

Report on ccNSO-related Issues

ICANN Debriefing Session JPNIC／IAjapan

Aug. 31

Introduction to DNSDNS Summer Days 2012

DNSOPS.JP

Sep. 1

Various Issues Surrounding Delegation

DNS Summer Days 2012

DNSOPS.JP

Sep. 1

BIND 9 Update

DNS Summer Days 2012

DNSOPS.JP

Sep. 1

BIND 9 Support by ISC

DNS Summer Days 2012

DNSOPS.JP

Sep. 27

Customer Services in .JP

CENTR Admin Workshop

CENTR

Sep. 27.JP Topics

CENTR Admin Workshop

CENTR

Oct. 5How JP registry tries to raise its visibility

CENTR GA

CENTR

Oct. 17

Encouraging DNSSEC Adoption
What Has Worked and What Hasn't

ICANN DNSSEC Workshop

ICANN(＊12)

Nov. 20

Report on ccNSO-related Issues

ICANN Debriefing Session

JPNIC／IAjapan

Jun. 13-15

Interop Tokyo 2012
Interop Tokyo 2012

Registry Report27 Reference

Date

Title

At

Nov. 21

No Child Knows How Dear He Is to His Parents?
Issues Concerning Delegation ‒ Lunch with DNS ‒Nov. 21DNSSEC Basics

Internet Week 2012
Lunch Seminar
Internet Week 2012
DNSSEC Tutorial

Nov. 21

JP DNS Update

Internet Week 2012 DNSDAY

JPNIC

Nov. 21

DNS Update Focusing on Domain Names Internet Week 2012 DNSDAY

JPNIC

Nov. 21

Introduction to BIND 10Internet Week 2012 DNSDAY

JPNIC

Nov. 21

Overview of New gTLDs

Internet Week 2012 DNSDAY

JPNIC

Nov. 21

Trend of IPv6 Queries in .JP

DNSOPS.JP BoF

DNSOPS.JP

Nov. 26.JP Registry

AP ccTLD Roundtable

TWNIC (＊13)

Nov. 27

Governance Framework of .JP

APTLD members meeting

APTLD

Dec. 10Viewers' side analysis of social interests

ICDM Workshop on
Data Mining for Service

ICDM(＊14)

Dec. 21

Report of IETF 85‒ DNS and Internationalization ‒IETF85 Reporting Session

ISOC-JP(＊15)＊1

JANOG: Japan Network Operators Group＊2CENTR…Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries＊3

IEPG:Internet Engineering and Planning Group＊4

IETF:The Internet Engineering Task Force＊5

DNSOPS.JP: DNS Operators Group, Japan＊6

DNSSEC Japan＊7

JPNIC: Japan Network Information Center＊8

IAjapan: Internet Association Japan＊9Interop Tokyo 2012 Steering Committee＊10

APTLD:Asia Paciﬁc Top Level Domain Association＊11

SAINT:IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet＊12

ICANN:Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers＊13

TWNIC:Taiwan Network Information Center＊14

ICDM:IEEE International Conference on Data Mining＊15

ISOC-JP: Japan Chapter of the Internet Society

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Hosted by
JPNIC
JPNIC

http://www.janog.gr.jp/
http://www.centr.org/
http://www.iepg.org/
http://www.ietf.org/
http://dnsops.jp/
http://dnssec.jp/
http://www.nic.ad.jp/
http://www.iajapan.org/
http://www.interop.jp/
http://www.aptld.org/
http://www.saintconference.org/
http://www.icann.org/
http://www.twnic.net.tw/
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/˜icdm/
http://www.isoc.jp/

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Press Releases*Original materials are written in Japanese.

Date

Title

Mar. 1JPRS Will Launch a New Registration Service for “Prefecture Type JP Domain Names”
in November 2012
‒ Service outline and schedule are published ‒Mar. 5JPRS Supports the “14th ThinkQuest JAPAN,” a Web Contest for Junior and Senior High SchoolStudents, and Presents the “Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS Special Award)”‒ Supporting the Internet education of young people by allowing them to try using JP domain names ‒Mar. 27

JPRS Releases “JP Domain Name Registry Report 2011” Today‒ Striving to further improve the “reliability” of JP domain name services with the introductionof DNSSEC ‒May 15JPRS Distributes Free Graphic Comic-style Booklet on “How the Internet Works” to
Educational Institutions in Japan‒ Project for third consecutive year to respond to demand from educational institutions
that appreciate the booklet ‒Jun. 14JPRS Files a New gTLD Program Application with ICANN to Establish ".jprs" for the Purposeof Research for the Internet‒To contribute to the advancement of JP domain name services and the Internet community‒

Jul. 17

Priority Registration of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Started‒ Launched on July 16, 2012 for character strings identical to trademarks ‒Aug. 2

Total Number of Registered JP Domain Names Tops 1.3 Million

Sep. 18

Concurrent Registration of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Started‒ Applications are accepted from September 17 to October 21, 2012 ‒Sep. 20

JPRS Institutes the “Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS Special Award)” in the “JapanWeb Grandprix”

Nov. 19

General Registration of the Prefecture Type JP Domain Name Started

Dec. 7JPRS Presented the “Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS Special Award)” in “Japan Web
Grandprix,” a Contest for Corporate Websites*Please refer to Press Release (http://jprs.co.jp/en/press/) for the latest releases in English.

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・Provision of Technical Information Related to DNS*Original materials are written in Japanese.

Date

Title

Jan. 11

Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks Capitalizing on the Vulnerability of PowerDNS‒ Version upgrade/application of patch is recommended ‒Feb. 17

Vulnerability Caused by “Ghost Domain Names”

Mar. 15DoS Attacks Taking Advantage of the Vulnerability of Windows DNS Servers

Jun. 5(Urgent) Vulnerability of BIND 9.x (Including Service Outage)‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended for both cache and authoritative servers ‒Jun. 22

Risk of Domain Hijacking Resulting from Problems in Service Operations

Jul. 4

Risk of DNS Poisoning Caused by Mixing Caching and Authoritative Services in theSame Name Server

Jul. 20(Urgent) DoS Attack Exploiting the Vulnerability of NSD 3.x‒ Version upgrade/application of patch is strongly recommended ‒Jul. 25

BIND 9.x Service Disruption That Occurs When Receiving a Large Number of Requests for
DNSSEC Verification‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended ‒Jul. 25

BIND 9.9.x Memory Leak Occurring upon Receiving a Large Number of TCP Queries‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended for both cache and authoritative servers -Jul. 30DoS Attack Exploiting the Vulnerability of NSD 3.2.11/3.2.12‒ Configuration check and necessary countermeasures are recommended ‒Sep. 13(Urgent) Vulnerability of BIND 9.x (Service Disruption)‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended for both cache and authoritative servers ‒Oct. 10(Urgent) Vulnerability of BIND 9.x (Service Disruption) (Published on October 10, 2012)‒ Application of patch is strongly recommended for both cache and authoritative servers ‒Nov. 1

Vulnerability in DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Processing with Exim 4.70-4.80‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended ‒Dec. 5Service Disruption of Named Caused by Implementation Bugs of BIND 9.8.x/9.9.x with DNS64/RPZ
Enabled (Published on December 5, 2012)‒ Version upgrade is strongly recommended ‒Dec. 18

Change of IP Address at d.root-servers.net＊For the latest information, please refer to the

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Technical Information Related to DNS (http://jprs.jp/tech/) (in Japanese).

About JPRSJPRS provides domain name services such as domain name management, administrationand distribution, and also performs domain name system (DNS) operations.
In addition, JPRS is engaged in research and development of various Internet technologies.

Domain Name Management and Administration
JPRS manages and administers domain names. In particular, JPRS plays an important role as theregistry of JP Domain Name, or domain names of Japan. You may have seen addresses for websites
and emails such as http://○○○.jp and △△△@○○○.jp . JPRS manages and administers a partof these addresses, namely, strings in the form of ○○○.jp . Domain names are the key to accessing
the Internet. JPRS is constantly improving its services so that JP domain names will continue to assist
the activities of all kinds of Internet users, including companies, organizations, and individuals.

DNS Operation
DNS (Domain Name System) is a system for identifying computers connected to the Internet using
domain names, so it is sometimes referred to as the phone book for the Internet.
If DNS were to fail, people would not be able to access websites or exchange emails using domainnames. To prevent such a catastrophe, JPRS has established a 24/7 system to ensure safe operationof the JP DNS for managing JP domain names.

R&D of Internet Technologies and International Activities
JPRS takes an active part in the research and development of advanced technologies to promptly
respond to changes in the Internet environment and social needs. Speciﬁcally, it conducts
standardization activities and technical veriﬁcation for the smooth deployment of DNSSEC, amechanism for improved DNS security. JPRS also veriﬁes the technical aspects of email addressinternationalization (EAI) that will allow non-English characters such as Japanese to be used in email
addresses. JPRS actively publishes the results of these activities and shares information at IETF andother meetings to contribute to the network society.

Registry Report31Translated: 22 May 2013
Note: This English translation is provided for informational purposes only.
For accuracy, please refer to the Japanese version.
Copyright © 2013 Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
JPRS, Japan Registry Services and other trademarks, service marks and designs areregistered or unregistered trademarks of Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. in Japanand other countries. All other trademarks not owned by Japan Registry Services Co.,
Ltd. that appear in this report are the property of their respective owners.

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