Translated: 2 May 2006
* Note:This English translation is provided for informational purposes only.
For accuracy, please refer to the Japanese version.

JP Domain Name
Registry Report
2005

15 March 2006
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/
http://日本レジストリサービス.jp/

Introduction
Management and administration of the .JP top-level domain forms part of the foundationof the Internet and requires a high level of commitment to enhancing the public interestand sound competitiveness. Based on the understanding of vital nature of the service
and its influence on the society, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) annually
publishes the report on the management and administration of JP Domain Name. This
document reports the activities in 2005 and prospects for the future.

Translated: 2 May 2006
Note:

This English translation is provided for informational purposes only.
For accuracy, please refer to the Japanese version.

Table of contents
1. Registry Activities ......................................................................................................................... 1
1-1 Goal of JPRS as the JP Domain Name Registry................................................................... 1
1-2 Challenges ............................................................................................................................... 2
1-3 Tasks for 2005 ......................................................................................................................... 3
1-4 External Relations ................................................................................................................... 6
1-5 Other Activities ........................................................................................................................ 9
1-6 Overviews of This Term’s Activities and Challenges for the Future................................. 10
2. Mid-term Vision as the JP Domain Name Registry................................................................... 11
3. Statistical Information................................................................................................................. 13
3-1 Change in Cumulative Number of JP Domain Name Registration .................................... 13
3-2 Breakdown of the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Name.......................... 15
3-3 Number of Accredited JP Registrars ................................................................................... 16
4. Reference..................................................................................................................................... 17
4-1 History .................................................................................................................................... 17
4-2 Advisory Committee.............................................................................................................. 18
4-3 Proposals and Presentations ............................................................................................... 20
4-4 Press Releases ...................................................................................................................... 24

1. Registry Activities
1-1 Goal of JPRS as the JP Domain Name Registry
The main objectives of JPRS as the JP Domain Name registry are: to continuously improve thevalue of .JP; to provide JP registry services that contribute to society; and to gain stronger
support from the local and global Internet community in an environment where JPRS competes
and collaborates with other Top Level Domains (TLDs) and similar services.
In January 2001, upon the commencement of JP Domain Name management and administration,
JPRS defined the following as the values of its services:• Reliability: establishing reliable domain names in the global society• Stability: operating and administering a stable domain name system (DNS)• Usability: establishing domain names that meet users’ needs• Fee Performance: providing services at internationally competitive fees
JPRS consistently pursues these goals as the core concept of the JP Domain Name. Moreover,
JPRS strives to conduct the registry business in consideration of the public interest, fairness andneutrality.

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1-2 Challenges
The following items were set out as the main action items for 2005 in the JP registry service.

Complying with the Personal Information Protection Law
Along with the full enforcement of the “Law Concerning the Protection of Personal Information(Personal Information Protection Law)” from April 1, 2005, management and administrationof .JP must meet the requirements regarding the handling of personal information defined under
the law, while maintaining the data openness principle. The issue here is how to modify theservices and rules as well as contract documents to comply with the Law.

Improvement of Japanese JP Domain Name User Environment
As for the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) user environment, browsers, search engines
and mobile phones are continually being improved. The issue for the future is to continue toimprove the user environment and raise the degree of awareness of Japanese JP Domain Name.
We must consider how to convey the “easy-to-understand” and “easy-to-remember” nature ofJapanese JP Domain Name in order to expand its usage.

Improvement of Reliability and Stability of JP DNS
It is essential to improve the reliability and stability of JP DNS to enable JP domain names to be
used safely and easily.

Contribution to Development of the Internet
We have a duty to contribute to the development of the global Internet as a JP domain nameregistry. We must consider how to establish cooperative relationships with domestic and foreignorganizations related to the Internet on a technical, operational and policy level in order to carryout our activities.

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1-3 Tasks for 2005
To tackle the action items pointed out in section 1-2, JPRS has made every effort to improve theservices and value of JP Domain Name in cooperation with various members of the community,
including related organizations.
Since early 2005, combined usage of similar characters in domain names in IDN and fraudulent
practice of using inadequate DNS server settings have come to an issue. These issues havedrawn much attention both inside and outside of Japan. JPRS, as the registry, has taken
measures to eliminate these risks.

Handling the Vulnerabilities of IDN to Phishing Fraud (February)
It was pointed out that IDN was vulnerable to phishing.

That is, a user of IDN-aware browser

may be navigated to unintended or even illegal website which holds a domain name in
non-ASCII characters visually confusable to ASCII ones. JPRS explained this issue within andwithout Japan and stated that the problem had already been minimized in the well-prepared IDN
registration services including Japanese JP Domain Name, for which proper measures havebeen taken since its inception. As a result of the publicity activity, browser vendors’ overreaction
such as deactivating IDN function was avoided. Moreover, JPRS brought together opinions withother TLD registries providing IDN registration services, and cooperated to update the“Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names” of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Compliance with the Personal Information Protection Act (April)
Upon enforcement of the “Personal Information Protection Act” on April 1, 2005, JPRS reviewed
all of its documents related to .JP management and administration businesses and revised someparts of the documents to make the scope and process of information disclosure clearer. We
continue to provide services that strike a balance between the international rules on information
disclosure and compliance with conditions defined in the laws of Japan.

Measures against Threats Caused by Inadequate DNS Server Settings (June~)
It was pointed out that if DNS administrators of domain names did not manage their DNS server
settings properly, they would face a risk that their nameserver’s domain name could be hijacked,3resulting in diversion of the traffic to their nameserver to unintended destination. In order tosecure the safety of the Internet as a whole, JPRS took measures (surveys, information provision
andwarnings) involving domain name registrants, DNS server administrators, government

agencies, Internet users and TLD registries of various countries as well as the other relevantorganizations. JPRS also checked whether each registered JP domain name were under threat,and sent out notices to the JP Registrar and registrant of the domain names at risk.

Change of General-Use JP Domain Name Renewal Fee (October)
Following the revision of the fee for new registration and transfer of General-Use JP Domain
Names in 2004, JPRS revised the renewal fee of General-Use JP Domain Name as of October 1,
2005, to improve the fee performance of JP Domain Name. It has also supported the campaigns
conducted by JP Registrars with reduced fee of Japanese JP Domain Name.

Commencement of Joint Operation of M-Root DNS Server with WIDE Project(December)
JPRS participated in the administration of the M-Root DNS server in December 2005 and started
joint operation with the WIDE project. The M-Root DNS server is one of 13 Root DNS servers in
the world, supporting the foundation of the worldwide Internet. By combining the innovative
quality of the WIDE project with the stable operational technology of JPRS, reliability and stabilityof the M-Root DNS server will be improved, thus enhancing the Internet environment.

Activities to Enhance User Environment of Japanese JP Domain Name
To enable many Internet users to become familiar with Web access using Japanese JP Domain
Name and let them experience its “easy-to-understand” and “easy-to-remember” features, JPRS
set up in January the “Jinmei Jiten” website (http://人名辞典.jp) which introduced registered
Japanese JP Domain Name consisting of the names of famous people. Then in December, it
started the “Eki Machi Guide” service (http://駅街ガイド.jp), with which you can visit and finduseful information in a portal site of particular train station simply by typing in a
<Japanese-station-name>.jp in the address bar of a browser. In April and October, JPRS
participated in the project led by “Live! Universe,” and supported broadcasting of astronomical
events (eclipse) over the Internet. Through the participation, user-friendliness of Japanese JP
Domain Name was well demonstrated with web broadcasting using the dedicated domain name
( http://日食中継.jp).

4Education and Promotion
JPRS has endeavored to share with the community cutting-edge Internet technologies andknowledge on how to use JP Domain Name at various co-sponsored events, seminars,
conferences and exhibitions.

Through these events, JPRS has provided opportunities for many

people to gain greater understanding of the Internet and JP Domain Name.
Apr.

LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 Hybrid
Supported the Internet eclipse broadcast from over the Pacific Ocean, the project
carried out by the NPO “Live! Universe.” 410,000 accesses were recorded thanks tothe easily-recognizable URL http:// 日食中 継.jp/, which proved user-friendliness ofJapanese JP Domain Name.

Jun.

ThinkQuest@JAPAN 2004
In the contest for creation of Web-based teaching materials, JPRS offered each of 19
winners, who were middle or high school students, a three-year right to use
General-Use JP Domain Name (in both Japanese and ASCII character) with a label
equivalent to the title of their work, e.g., “WorkTitle.jp”, to be used as a URL for theteaching material on the web.

Jun.

Interop Tokyo 2005
Case examples of Japanese JP Domain Name usage were exhibited in the JPRS booth
which advertised the potential of Japanese JP Domain Name.

Jun.

HOSTING-PRO 2005
JPRS participated in holding of ”HOSTING-PRO” event, as the supporter of the rental
server/hosting businesses. JPRS also held seminars to share knowledge on global
trend and latest updates regarding DNS.

Oct.

LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 AnnularFollowing the event in April, JPRS collaborated with the Internet eclipse broadcast from
Spain carried out by the “Live! Universe”. The number of accesses to “http://日食中
継.jp/” reached 550,000, exceeding the figure in April. JPRS also made a presentationof access figures for these two events at the conference held by Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers.

Nov.

HOSTING-PRO 2005 Fall
We held a seminar focusing on the operation of DNS for hosting providers. We provided
knowledge on measures to avoid risks to users due to inadequate DNS settings.

Dec.

Internet Week 2005
JPRS held a “Solution Seminar” where the present situation, case examples ofJapanese JP Domain Name usage and configuration techniques were presented.

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1-4 External Relations
The Internet is a network not confined by regional or national borders, but is open to the entire
world. Therefore, a globally harmonized operational framework is required in order for theInternet as a whole to function smoothly. JPRS has enthusiastically put forward suggestions andpresentations at home and abroad as the responsible registry for .JP. JPRS has also supported
building of a stable and high-quality Internet service framework through participation in theprocesses for standardization, operational cooperation and policy-making as described below.

Standardization Activities at IETF
Publication of RFC co-authored by a JPRS engineer
RFC4074 “Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses,” co-authored by
Yasuhiro Morishita of JPRS and Mr. Tatsuya Jinmei of Toshiba Corporation, was published by
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in May 2005.

This RFC is labeled“informational,” that is, information which is authorized to be distributed widely throughout theInternet.

It examines cases where inadequate handling of IPv6 AAAA records in DNS

authoritative server influences communication with IPv4.
Proposal of BoF concerning internationalized mail addresses
JPRS held a BoF in cooperation with ccTLD registries of China (.cn), South Korea (.kr),
Singapore (.sg) and Taiwan (.tw) which form the JET (Joint Engineering Team) in the IETF
meeting held in November 2005, for the purpose of promoting internationalization of email
addresses. Consequently, JET announced a proposal for the technical standard.
The number of browsers which are capable of using IDN is increasing. With regard to email,standardization of technology to use characters other than ASCII on the left side of “@” of anemail address is not complete, and there is almost no email software which supports IDN at
present.

In order to promote internationalization of email addresses, ccTLD registries ofChina, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore discussed technical matters in cooperation
with IETF experts, presented the need for internationalized email addresses to IETF andproposed the basic technology. At the IETF meeting, it was agreed to form a working groupand promote the technical standardization.

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Participation in the Discussion in ICANN
Initiative for creation of Accountability Framework Guideline for ccTLDJPRS served as a chair of the working group which developed the main contents of the
Accountability Framework, a framework for clarification of and mutual agreement on
responsibility and authority between each ccTLD registry and ICANN. The working groupcompiled the study results into a guideline in December 2005 and proposed it to ICANN.

For

the future, each of these ccTLDs and ICANN are expected to start negotiation for signing anagreement based on the guideline.
Submission of comments to the strategic plan of ICANNIn February 2005, JPRS expressed support for ICANN in its comment on “ICANN Strategic
Plan 2003-04 to 2006-07” and presented the need for improved DNS security and stability as
well as for ICANN’s building a formal and responsible relationship with each ccTLD.

In

addition, JPRS expressed in the comment its intention to actively participate in ICANN
process.
Participation in the activities concerning IDN
JPRS, as a member of IDN working group of ICANN, took a leading part in the revision of the
IDN implementation guidelines which started in September 2005. This draft revision was
adopted formally as a guideline at the ICANN board meeting held in November 2005. In
addition, JPRS joined the ICANN President’s Advisory Committee for IDNs when it wasestablished in December 2005.

In the Committee, grave issues including introduction of IDN

TLD are discussed among members from various constituencies.

Joint Open Letter Requesting IDN Support to Microsoft®
JPRS participated in development and delivery of an open letter to Microsoft® as one of themembers of JET in April 2005.

In the letter, JET requested that the next version of the Microsoft

Internet Explorer® supported IDN. As a result of this effort together with other activities toenhance IDN user environment, Microsoft® announced that it would make the Microsoft Internet
Explorer® support IDN from the summer of 2006 onward.

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Submission of Comments Responding to “Call for Public Comments on theReport of the Study Group on Telecommunications Numbers in the IP Era (draft)”of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced a draft report which pointed out
the importance of ENUM (Telephone Number Mapping) technology; urged the whole country to
work on the development of ENUM; and invited public comments on the report. In response,
JPRS submitted a comment in joint names with Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and
WIDE Project in July 2005. In the comments, we explained that we welcomed the promotion of
ENUM and expected that a framework and a system for its practical use would be developed, by
timely grasping global trends.

Participation in the Activities of the Internet Governance Task ForceJPRS took active part in the Internet Governance Task Force (IGTF), a group for considering
Internet governance discussed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and theWorking Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). In IGTF, JPRS discussed the management ofInternet resources including domain names as well as the usage of multiple languages on theInternet.

And, under the name of IGTF, JPRS put out a position that it supported theprivate-sector-led Internet management and that it intended to back up the current framework.

Proposals and Presentations
At various meetings and events held in Japan and abroad, JPRS has made numerous proposals
and presentations, ranging from technologies related to domain names and DNS to usage
know-how’s. Please refer to “4-3 Proposals and Presentations” for details.

PR Activities
JPRS distributes information to society and the Internet community in the form of public releases
and disclosure. Please refer to “4-4 Press Releases” for details.

81-5 Other Activities
Application for the .net Domain Name Registry (January)
At the end of June 2005, the .net registry agreement between ICANN and VeriSign, Inc. expired.
Earlier, ICANN had made a public offering for the successor registry of the .net top-level domain.
In response to this call for proposal, JPRS established Sentan Registry Services, Inc. jointly with
NeuLevel, Inc. (the registry of .biz) in January 2005 and submitted an application to ICANN.
Although the incumbent, VeriSign, was selected as the next registry of the .net in March 2005,
Sentan Registry Services was ranked second, just after VeriSign in top position, proving the highreputation of the registry capabily of JPRS.

ENUM
ENUM is a technology which enables unified access to various communication services on theInternet using telephone numbers.

Further to the efforts it made in 2004, JPRS is conducting

research and development and making proposals through technical exchanges with related
entities with an aim to realize this new technology.
When the APRICOT 2005 held in Kyoto in February, the Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team(APEET) performed “ENUM Live Trial,” giving participants a chance to experience ENUM.
JPRS played a central part in planning this trial as a member of APEET and took a leading role inmanagement by providing the registration system and SIP server. In November, e164.arpa, theinternational namespace for the ENUM trial, was delegated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications of Japan by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Since then,

JPRS, in co with JPNIC, has carried out overall management and DNS operation in the trial.

Research and Development Commissioned by the National Institute of Information
and Communications Technology
As a study commissioned by the National Institute of Information and Communication
Technology (NICT), JPRS has been working on “Research and development of security
enhancement in central functions of the Internet” which was started in 2004 as a commissioned
study (joint research project with NTT Communications) theme of NICT. As priority themes of
JPRS in particular, it researches and develops the DNS system focusing on the functions andperformance required for TLD management and administration; and it works on development of
the DNS network configuration and operation system which uses IP Anycast technology. This is9

a three-year R&D project conducted through March 2007. Aim of JPRS is to improve stability,
safety and failure-resistance of JP DNS and to enhance the reliability of JP Domain Name spaceby putting the result into practical use.

1-6 Overviews of This Term’s Activities and Challenges for the Future
JPRS has been striving to strike proper balance among the four values (reliability, stability,
usability and fee performance) which form basis of domain name management and registration
services.

In 2005, JPRS made a special effort to improve reliability and stability of DNS andencouraged the utilization of Japanese JP Domain Name. With regard to DNS, it carried out PR
activities with an aim to realize appropriate management of DNS servers; and it participated inoperation of the M-Root DNS server.
update intervals of JP DNS.

In addition, JPRS started consideration of shortening the

It is expected that the update interval will be significantly reducedby the end of 2006. JPRS has also actively carried out liaison and promotion activities to improvethe user environment of Japanese JP Domain Name.
In 2006 and beyond, JPRS plans to review its Whois service, if appropriate, according to thesituation at home and abroad; and it also plans to further improve the reliability and stability of JP
DNS.

In addition, JPRS needs to reinforce cooperative relationship with JP Registrars.

We

hope that JP Domain Name becomes even easier to use and trusted and selected by Internet
users, by our addressing the above-mentioned challenges.
Also, it is scheduled that the Internet Explorer® supports IDN in 2006.
trigger the leap of Japanese JP Domain Name usage.

So, JPRS will continue to promote

Japanese JP Domain Name along with this trend in the browser industry.

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We believe this will

2. Mid-term Vision as the JP Domain Name Registry
JPRS will continue to expedite processes balancing reliability, stability, usability and fee
performance. The followings are its policies for enhancing each of the four values.

Reliability
JPRS will continue to improve its reliability so that the registrants and Internet users can use the
JP Domain space securely. Specifically, while enhancing information security and personal
information protection, JPRS will seek the best balance between disclosure of registeredinformation and protection of personal information, taking into consideration of the smooth
operation of network and dispute resolution. Also, JPRS will take appropriate measures toaddress issues related to intellectual property which will likely increase when Japanese JP
Domain Name is used more widely in the future.

Stability
JPRS will try to provide a more stable registration system and JP DNS services. The focus of
JPRS is not only maintaining stability in regular times, but also keeping service sustainability interms of crisis management. JPRS will also carry out education activities to make the registrants
more aware of secure DNS settings. In particular, JPRS aspires to attain the followings withregard to JP DNS:
・Optimize server deployment
・Consolidate its operational framework
・Enhance query performance
・Prevent inadequate DNS settings

Usability
JPRS will improve registration rules and procedures, and is committed to creating moreuser-friendly JP Domain Name by shortening the JP DNS update interval, improving system
maintenance and other services. JPRS also aims to improve overall value of JP Domain Namefor registrants and Internet users, through close cooperation with the JP Registrars.

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Fee Performance
JPRS will work on reducing fees after ensuring full reliability, stability and usability, which areessential for untroubled use of JP Domain Name.

JPRS reduced the registration renewal fee

for General-Use JP Domain Name in the fourth quarter of 2005, and will work on revising the fee
continuously, taking into account the increase in the number of registered domain names andinvestment in fulfillment of reliability, stability and usability.

Framework of Implementation
To ensure stability and availability of JP domain names under fierce and constant competition
with other TLDs, it is far from adequate that JPRS only provides services in the public interest ofJapanese community only. Rather, JPRS should continuously take an active part in theinternational community. Therefore, JPRS will actively communicate and cooperate withstakeholders involved with the Internet from inside and outside of the country, including of course
JP Domain Name registrants.
Through conducting these measures on an ongoing basis, JPRS will be striving to provide JP
Domain Name service that is attractive and secure.

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3. Statistical Information
3-1 Change in Cumulative Number of JP Domain Name Registration
As of February 1, 2005, the cumulative number of registered General-Use JP Domain Name
(338,865) exceeded the cumulative number of Organizational/Geographic Type JP Domain
Name (328,716) for the first time since the registration service of General-Use JP Domain Namestarted in February 2001. Moreover, the increase in the number of JP Domain Name registered
within a year exceeded 100,000 for the first time in 2005, with the number of General-Use JP
Domain Name in particular increasing significantly.

JP Domain
Name

Organizational/Geographic

General-Use(ASCII)

General-Use(Japanese)

800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000

Ja
n93
Ja
n94
Ja
n95
Ja
n96
Ja
n97
Ja
n98
Ja
n99
Ja
n00
Ja
n01
Ja
n02
Ja
n03
Ja
n04
Ja
n05
Ja
n06

0

Month-Year

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Year/Month

Organizational/

General-Use

General-Use

Geographic Type(ASCII)(Japanese)

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

33,739----33,7391999/01

58,549----58,5492000/01

124,573----

124,573

2001/01

234,294----234,294

2002/01

283,340

121,992

61,507

466,839

2003/01

297,413

153,949

51,544502,906

2004/01

309,193

199,698

45,402554,2932005/01

327,742

254,131

63,324645,197

2006/01

346,340

323,182

116,602786,124

Please refer to “JP domain name Statistics” (http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/) for the latest information.

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3-2 Breakdown of the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Name*As of January 1, 2006

GeneralUse(Japanese)
14.8%

ED
0.6%

CO
36.1%

GO
0.1%

Organizational/
Geographic Type
44.1%

GeneralUse(ASCII)
41.1%

GR
1.1%
LG
0.3%
NE
AD
0.04% AC
0.4%

2.2%
Geo
0.5%

OR
2.7%

1 January 2005

1 January 2006

Difference

3,251

3,135

+116

297

302

-5

CO ：Kaisha (Company)

283,873

265,973+17,900

ED ：Primary, middle, and

4,394

4,302

+92

839

826

+13

AC ：Higher education
institution
AD ：JPNIC Member

high school
Organizational/

GO ：Japanese government

Geographic TypeGR ：Group

8,948

9,284

-336

LG ：Japanese local

2,534

2,949

-415

NE ：Network service

17,317

17,260+57

OR ：Judicial person other

21,071

19,515+1,556

3,816

4,196

-380

ASCII

323,182

254,131+69,051

Japanese

116,602

63,324+53,278Total

786,124

645,197+140,927

authority

than kaisha
Geographic type
General-Use

Please refer to “Guide to JP Domain Name” (http://jprs.co.jp/en/jpdomain.html) for detailed
description of the types.

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3-3 Number of Accredited JP Registrars

Organizational/Geographic

JP Registrars

General-Use

600
500
400
300
200
100

Year/Month

Organizational/

General-Use

Geographic Type

20
06

20
05

20
04

20
03

20
02

20
01

0
Year

Cumulative Total

2001/04

---

443

443

2002/01

---

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

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4. Reference
4-1 History
2000

Dec.

JPRS established.

2001

Feb.

General-Use JP Domain Priority Registration Phase started.

Apr.

General-Use JP Domain Concurrent Registration Phase started.

May

General-Use JP Domain Formal FCFS Registration started.

Feb.

ccTLD sponsor agreement concluded with ICANN.

Apr.

Management and administration of .JP TLD transferred from JPNIC to JPRS.

Oct.

LG.JP established.

Oct.

JPRS started distributing plug-in for IE, “I-NavTM.”

Jan.

Total number of JP domain name registrations reached 500,000.

Jun.

JPRS received approval for providing IDN Service from ICANN.

Jul.

RFC-based Japanese JP Domain Name registration service started.

Dec.

“Japanese JP Access Site (http://jajp.jp/)” for mobile phones established.

Feb.

IP Anycast technology introduced in JP DNS service ([a.dns.jp][d.dns.jp]).

Feb.

“Nihongo JP Navi” service started.

Jul.

JP domain name started full support for IPv6, for the first time in the world as a

2002

2003

2004

TLD.
Nov.

Service of former JP DNS server (former a.dns.jp) terminated.

Dec.

Portal site “Nihongo dot JP” (http://日本語.jp/) for Japanese JP Domain Namepromotion launched.

2005

Jan.

“Jinmei Jiten” (http://人名辞典.jp/) to introduce usage of Japanese JP Domain
for personal names established.

Mar.

JP DNS server (c.dns.jp) service terminated.

Jun.

Work on eliminating risks due to inadequate management of DNS servers
started.

Aug.

“Limited liability partnership” added as a new registration target for CO.JP
domain names.

Dec.

“Eki Machi Guide” (http://駅街ガイド.jp/) started, which provides information on
areas around stations using Japanese JP domain names that consist of station
names throughout Japan.

Dec.

JPRS started operation of M-Root DNS server in cooperation with the WIDE
Project.

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4-2 Advisory Committee
In the JP Domain Name Advisory Committee, members from outside of JPRS with various
viewpoints consider policy of JP Domain Name in order to maintain fairness and neutrality in theoperation of the .JP management and administration.
Although the Advisory Committee was set up in 2002, this is the first time we report on it in theregistry report. In this section, reports from the first through to the ones for 2005 are included.

(1) Advisories and reports (originals are written in Japanese language)
Advisory/Report
Policymanagement

andDocument No.

Document No.
Nov. 29, 2002

administration of JP Domain NameJPRS-ADV-2002001

JPRS-ADVRPT-2002002

Establishment of a new Organizational Type

Jun. 19, 2002

Jul. 17, 2002

Domain “LG.JP”

JPRS-ADV-2002002

JPRS-ADVRPT-2002001

Mechanism for appointing members of theJun. 19, 2002

Nov. 29, 2002

JPRS-ADV-2002003

JPRS-ADVRPT-2002003

Protection of JP Domain Name and its

Sept. 3, 2003

Mar. 10, 2004

registrants under the specific conditions of

JPRS-ADV-2003001

JPRS-ADVRPT-2004001

Apr. 28, 2004

Dec. 10, 2004

concerning registration of JP Domain NameJPRS-ADV-2004001

JPRS-ADVRPT-2004001

Mechanism for appointing members of theNov. 10, 2004

Mar. 15, 2005

3 term of the Advisory Committee

JPRS-ADV-2004002

JPRS-ADVRPT-2004002

Reserved Japanese JP Domain Name

Aug. 30, 2005

(under consultation)2

theReported dateMar. 26, 2002

ndon

Advisory dateterm of the Advisory Committee

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Please refer to “JP domain name advisory committee” (http://jprs.co.jp/en/advisory.html) for
details.

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(2) Date of advisory committee meetings
2002

2003

Mar. 26 1st Advisory Committee Meeting
Jul. 8

2nd Advisory Committee Meeting

Nov. 11

3rd Advisory Committee Meeting

Feb. 18 4th Advisory Committee Meeting
May 21 5th Advisory Committee Meeting
Sep. 18 6th Advisory Committee Meeting
Nov. 19 7th Advisory Committee Meeting

2004

Feb. 10 8th Advisory Committee Meeting
May 25 9th Advisory Committee Meeting
Aug. 24 10th Advisory Committee Meeting

2005

Mar. 15 11th Advisory Committee Meeting
May 24 12th Advisory Committee Meeting
Aug. 30 13th Advisory Committee Meeting
Nov. 17 14th Advisory Committee Meeting194-3 Proposals and Presentations* Original materials are written in English language, unless otherwise specified.
Title

Date

Jan. 26 ccTLD Update (in Japanese)
Feb. 1 Using In-bailiwick Nameservers
Feb. 2

JP-DRP – Present and Future –At

Hosted by

ICANN/IGTF Debrief JPNIC (*1)/
SessionIAjapan (*2)

NANOG33

NANOG (*3)

CENTR Admin

CENTR (*4)

Workshop
Feb. 10 Domain Name and DNS –Latest

Lecture meeting on

Kumamoto Industrial

trend– (in Japanese)

information network

Research Institute (*5)

technology
Feb. 21 DNS Monkey-in-the-middle Attack

DNSSEC SUMMITDNSSEC Deployment
Working Group (*6)

Feb. 22 DNS Operational Experiences in
JPRS/.JPAPRICOT 2005

APRICOT 2005

Meeting

Japan Executive- DNS itself, IPv6, IDN, ENUM -Committee (*7)

Feb. 23 IPv6 DNS Operation of .JP

IPv6 Summit

APRICOT (*8)

Feb. 23 ENUM/SIP Deployment Status

APRICOTAPRICOT– Japan Update –Conference

Feb. 24 Improving Reverse DNS Lookup

APNIC19 DNS

Performance
Mar. 7 IDN Application Guideline

APNIC (*9)

operations SIG
62nd IETF

IETF (*10)

APPAREA BOF
Mar. 9 APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial at
APRICOT 2005 Kyoto
Apr. 2 IDNs – Homographs & Phishing –62nd IETF ENUM

IETF

WG
ICANN GAC IDNICANN GAC (*11)

Workshop
Apr. 5 AF-WG Report

ICANN ccNSOICANN ccNSO (*12)

Meeting
May 6 Using In-bailiwick Nameservers

RIPE 50 Meeting

RIPE (*13)

ICANN/IGTFDebrief

JPNIC/IAjapan

in .ARPA
May 18 ccTLD Update (in Japanese)

Session20

TitleDate

At

Hosted byJul. 10 Stakeholder Relations in .JP

wwTLD Meeting

wwTLD (*14)

Jul. 11 AF-WG Report

ICANN ccNSOICANN ccNSO

MeetingJul. 31 DNS Hijacking

CENTR Technical– Inappropriate Domain Name

Advisory Working

Management Causes DNS

Group

CENTR

Hijacking –Jul. 31 BIND 8 Iterative Caching Resolver

BIND Forum Meeting ISC (*15)

Should Be Marked as‘Deprecated’.
Aug. 1 BGP Anycast Node for63rd IETF Meeting

Authoritative Name Server

Domain Name

Requirements

System Operations

IETF

WG (dnsop)
Aug. 8 ccTLD Update (in Japanese)

ICANN/IGTF Debrief

JPNIC/IAjapan

SessionAug. 23 International Collaboration

APNG CampAPNG (*16)

APTLD Meeting

APTLD (*17)

Oct. 2 DNS Hijacking

APTLD Meeting

APTLD

Oct. 3 .JP Update

APTLD Meeting

APTLD

Nov. 6 DNS Hijacking

IEPG Meeting

IEPG (*18)

IEE BoF, 64th IETF

IETF

– from the viewpoint of JPRS –Oct. 2 Guidelines for the Implementationof Internationalized Domain
Names– Inappropriate Domain NameManagement Causes DNS
Hijacking –Nov. 10 Downgrading Mechanism forInternationalized eMail Addresses

Meeting(IMA)
Nov. 16 Latest Trend of Domain Name and HOSTING-PRO
DNS (in Japanese)

2005 Fall

HOSTING-PRO
Executive Committee
(*19)

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TitleDate

Nov. 21 .JP Measures against DNS
Hijacks
Nov. 22 Laws Related to Cyber Crimes– Case of Japan –At
CENTR Admin

Hosted by
CENTR

Workshop
CENTR 28th

CENTR

General Assembly

Nov. 29 Personal Information Protection

Privacy Conference

GNSO Registry

Law and .JP Whois– Whois/Privacy:

Constituency (*20)

Building Bridges

GNSO Non-commercial
Users Constituency(*21)
Public Interest Registry(PIR) (*22)
Cole, Raywid &Praverman LLP (*23)

Dec. 1 IDN - these days -ICANN ccNSOICANN ccNSO

Meeting
Dec. 6 If You Forget Updating Domain

Internet Week 2005

JPNIC

Name Registration…(in Japanese) DNS Day
Dec. 6 Threat Caused by Inappropriate
Domain Name Management (inInternet Week 2005

JPNIC

DNS Day

Japanese)
Dec. 7 Input to WSIS Panel Discussion

Internet Week 2005

JPNIC

Dec. 9 Domain Name Trend in 2005 (inInternet Week 2005

JPNIC

Japanese)

IP Meeting*1 JPNIC: Japan Network Information Center
http://www.nic.ad.jp/en/*2 IAjapan: Internet Association Japan
http://www.iajapan.org/index-en.html*3 NANOG: The North American Network Operators' Group
http://www.nanog.org/*4 CENTR: Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries
http://www.centr.org/*5 Kumamoto Industrial Research Institutehttp://www.kmt-iri.go.jp/22

*6 DNSSEC Deployment Working Group
http://www.dnssec-deployment.org/wg.php*7 APRICOT 2005 Japan Executive Committee
http://www.apricot.net/apricot2005/*8 APRICOT: Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
http://www.apricot.net/*9 APNIC: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
http://www.apnic.net/*10 IETF: The Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.ietf.org/*11 GAC: Governmental Advisory Committee
http://www.icann.org/committees/gac/*12 ccNSO: Country Code Names Supporting Organization
http://ccnso.icann.org/*13 RIPE: Réseaux IP Européens
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/*14 wwTLD: World Wide Alliance of Top Level Domains
http://www.wwtld.org/*15 ISC: Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
http://www.isc.org/*16 APNG: Asia Pacific Networking Group
http://www.apng.org/*17 APTLD: Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association
http://www.aptld.org/*18 IEPG: Internet Operational Group
http://www.iepg.org/*19 HOSTING-PRO Executive Committee
http://hosting-pro.jp/*20 GNSO Registry Constituency
http://www.gtldregistries.org/*21 GNSO Non-commercial Users Constituency
http://www.ncdnhc.org/*22 Public Interest Registry (PIR)
http://www.pir.org/*23 Cole, Raywid & Praverman LLP
http://www.crblaw.com/

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4-4 Press Releases* Original releases are written in Japanese language, unless otherwise specified.
2005

Title

Jan. 12 “JPRS Opens a Portal Site ’Jinmei Jiten (http://人名辞典.jp/)’ to promote Japanese JP
Domain Name for Personal Name”
Jan. 19 “JPRS Applied for Candidacy of the Next Registry Operator for .NET Jointly with
NeuLevel”“JPRS Applied for Candidacy of the Next Registry Operator for .NET Jointly with
NeuLevel (English release)”Feb. 1 “JP Domain Name Registry Service Complies to ’Personal Information Protection Act’from April 1”
Feb. 8 “Cumulative Number of Registered General-Use JP Domain Names Exceeds 330,000,
Surpassing Organizational/Geographic Type JP Domain Names”“Cumulative Number of Registered General-Use JP Domain Names Exceeds 330,000,
Surpassing Organizational/Geographic Type JP Domain Names (English release)”
Apr. 6 “JPRS Posts ’JP Domain Name Registry Report 2004’”
Apr. 7 “JPRS Participated in ‘LIVE! ECLIPSE 2005 Hybrid (http://日食中継.jp/)‘ of ‘LIVE!
UNIVERSE’ which Uses Japanese JP Domain Name”
Apr. 9 “Access with Japanese JP Domain Name to’LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 Hybrid’ Marked

410,000 ”
Jun. 1 “Total Number of JP Domain Name Registration Reaches 700,000”
Jun. 6 “JPRS Awards Right to Use General-Use JP Domain Name to Winning Team at theThinkQuest@JAPAN 2004”
Jul. 21 “JPRS Adapts the JP Domain Name Registration Service to the LLP Law”
Aug. 4 “JPRS Commences an Effort to Eliminate the Risk Caused by Improper Management of
DNS Servers Associated with JP Domain Names”
Sep. 2 “JPRS Participates in ’LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 Annular (http://日食中継.jp/)’”Sep. 8 “JPRS Offers JP Domain Name (in Both Japanese and ASCII Characters) to Applicantsto ThinkQuest@JAPAN 2005”
Sep. 28 “’LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 Annular (http://日食中継.jp/)’ Will Be Implemented on October 3”
Oct. 3 “Number of Accesses with Japanese JP Domain Name to ’LIVE!ECLIPSE 2005 Annular(http://日食中継.jp/)’ Hit 550,000”
Dec. 5 “JPRS Takes Measures to Mitigate Risks Caused by Improper Management of DNS
Servers Associated with JP Domain Names”

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2005

Title

Dec. 15 “JPRS Starts ‘Eki Machi Guide (http://駅街ガイド.jp/)’ to Enhance Use of Japanese JP
Domain Name”
Dec. 20 “WIDE Project and JPRS Start Joint Operation of a Root DNS Server ““WIDE Project and JPRS Start Joint Operation of a Root DNS Server (English release)”

Please refer to “Press Release” (http://jprs.co.jp/press/) for the latest information.
For English releases, please see http://jprs.co.jp/en/press/ .

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