2010.1-12

Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.

Introduction

In 2010, .JP was recognized as one of the world s safest country code top-leveldomains (ccTLDs) for the second consecutive year*¹. This, we believe, is the resultof our careful management of domain name registration, appropriate services for JP
Registrars and service providers, as well as cooperative activities with
JPCERT/CC*² and other security-related organizations at home and abroad.
Also in 2010, we continued to face threats to the foundation of the Internet, suchas the exhaustion of IPv4 address inventory and the discovery of vulnerabilities in
DNS software.
As a company supporting the basis of the Internet society through JP domain names
and DNS, JPRS is striving to make the Internet safe for everyone to use. To thisend, JPRS promptly provides information and deals with risks and problems as theyarise. JPRS also actively contributes to discussions of global issues and conveys
relevant information to parties 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 Mapping the Mal Web̶the World s Riskiest Domains report published by McAfee, Inc. in October 2010
*2 JPCERT/CC: Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center01

Registry Report
Index

01 Registry Activities
01・1 Goal of JPRS as the JP Domain Name Registry03

01・2 Activities in 201004

01・3 International Relations

10

01・4 Activities in Japan16

01・5 Overview of this Term s Activities and Challenges for the Future

17

02 Statistical Information
02・1 Change in the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Names

19

02・2 Breakdown of the Cumulative Number of Registered JP Domain Names

20

02・3 Number of JP Domain Name Registrations by Prefecture

21

02・4 Transition of DNS Conﬁguration Rate

2202・5 Number of Accredited JP Registrars

23

02・6 Number of Complaints Based on the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (JP-DRP)

24

03 Reference
03・1 History

25

03・2 Domain Name Advisory Committee

26

03・3 Proposals and Presentations

28

03・4 Press Releases

30

02 Registry Report

01 Registry Activities

01・1

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 we compete and collaborate with other registriesof Top Level Domains (TLDs) and similar services.
JPRS deﬁnes the following as the core concepts for the registration and administration of JP domainnames.
• 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.

Registry Report03

01 Registry Activities

01・2

Activities in 2010

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.

Submission of Comments on the Selection Criteria (proposal) for .日本 Registry (March)
The Japan Internet Domain Name Council invited comments on the Draft Selection Criteria for.日本 registry. In response, JPRS submitted its comments regarding two criteria: the technicalcapability and the business plan.
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/100323.html (in Japanese)

Publication of RFC Written by JPRS Engineer (April)
RFC5825*¹ (Displaying Downgraded Messages for Email Address Internationalization), co-authoredby Kazunori Fujiwara of JPRS and Barry Leiba of Huawei Technologies, was issued on April 12 (UStime). Similarly to the previous RFCs on email address internationalization (EAI), this RFC provides
references for implementing experimental speciﬁcations for the preparation of standard speciﬁcations,as well as conducting veriﬁcation experiments on the Internet.
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/100414.html (in Japanese)

Geographic Type JP Domain Names Reconstruction Working Group Established (May)JPRS set up the Geographic Type JP Domain Names Reconstruction Working Group on May 10.
The registration of Geographic Type JP domain names started in December 1993 as an experimental
project, and these domain names have been in full-scale use since April 1996. However, thecircumstances for Geographic Type JP domain names have changed in many ways, due to theintroduction of General-use JP domain names that allow registration by individuals, the introduction of
LG.JP for local public institutions, and municipal mergers. Therefore, JPRS started studying thereconstruction of Geographic Type JP domain names so that they can be registered and used moreeasily by people in various regions, thereby contributing to the development of local communities. In
June, JPRS conducted a questionnaire survey to invite comments from a wide range of users.
http://jprs.jp/geo-wg/ (in Japanese)
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2010/100624.html (in Japanese)*1 RFC: Request for Comments

04 Registry ReportFree Cartoon Booklet How the Internet Works Sent to Junior andSenior High Schools across Japan (May)The Info-Communications Promotion Month started in mid May as part ofInternet-related educational activities. In line with this, from May 25 to June
30, JPRS set up a special web page (http://マンガで学ぶ.jp) where junior andsenior high school teachers could apply for the booklet, and distributed it freeof charge. In October and November, JPRS sent out a similar announcement
to teachers of technical colleges regarding its Ponta s Great Adventure in
the Network cartoon booklet. This booklet contains a story to help readerslearn how the Internet works, explaining how we can reach a certain website
and the system of Internet addresses, or

domain names,with many

illustrations.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2010/100525.html (in Japanese)

Ponta s Great Adventurein the Network

Yoshiro Yoneya of JPRS Appointed Co-Chair of IETF PRECIS Working Group (June)
Yoshiro Yoneya of JPRS was appointed Co-Chair of the PRECIS Working Group (WG) set up
in IETF *2 to promote the standardization of Internet technologies. He is in charge of promotion
activities together with Marc Blanchet from Viagenie (Canada).
The goal of the PRECIS WG is to update and reﬁne the standard protocol prescribed in
RFC3454 to correctly judge the matching of character types and compatible characters whencharacter strings such as kanji and Arabic letters are used in domain names.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2010/100615.html (in Japanese)

Masato Minda of JPRS Selected as TCR for ICANN s Root Zone DNSSEC Operation (June)
Masato Minda of JPRS was selected as one of the Trusted Community Representatives (TCR) set up
by ICANN*³ for the implementation of DNSSEC in the root zone. As representatives of the global
Internet community, TCR will participate in the operation of HSM (hardware for DNSSEC key
generation and storage) and key ceremonies (procedures to generate and update keys) to deploy
DNSSEC in the root zone.
Minda participated in the ﬁrst key ceremony held in July in the ICANN s facility on the West Coast of
the United States.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2010/100617.html (in Japanese)*2 IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force*3 ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Registry Report05

01 Registry Activities

JPRS Hosted JANOG26 Meeting (July)JPRS hosted the JANOG26 Meeting to discuss andexchange information on technical matters and operations
related to the Internet in Japan. JPRS has been actively
participating in JANOG meetings as a sponsor, providing
support to its activities and making presentations on
DNS-related technology.
In the JANOG26 Meeting, we also provided the event
venue and helped event operations. The meeting, which
was held in Ebisu, Tokyo, attracted more than 600

JANOG26 Meeting

participants.
http://jprs.co.jp/press/2010/100601.html (in Japanese)
http://www.janog.gr.jp/en/index.php?JANOG26%20Programs

Internationalized Domain Name Tool Kit 2.0 Released (July)JPRS released the internationalized domain name Tool Kit 2.0 (idnkit-2.0).
The idnkit is equipped with the speciﬁcations of the internationalized domain name (IDN) being
standardized at IETF. The kit oﬀers tools for site operators and API functions for application
developers. idnkit-2.0 is based on idnkit-1.0 developed and publicized by the Japan Network
Information Center in 2003. This tool is compatible with the new IDN standards.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2010/100720.html
http://jprs.co.jp/idn/index-e.html

Submitted Application in Response to Open Recruitment of .日本 Registry (August)
JPRS submitted an application in response to the open recruitment of the .日本 registry by the Japan
Internet Domain Name Council. In this application, JPRS proposed that .日本 and .JP domain nameregistrants be matched up completely to restrain the cost to be borne by domain name registrants, andto prevent confusion among domain name registrants and Internet users when the .日本 service isintroduced.
On October 12, JPRS received a notice that the Japan Internet Domain Name Council had selected
JPRS as the sole candidate for .日本 registry and reported this to the Ministry of Internal Aﬀairs andCommunications.
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/100817.html (in Japanese)
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/101012.html (in Japanese)

06 Registry Report

Activities to Promote Understanding of Domain Names (September)
JPRS opened ドメインまるわかり.jp(Everything You Should

Know about Domain Names), a website that contains articles
related to domain names.
The website has a collection of magazine articles and web
postings that explain the roles of the domain name, examples
of use, and other domain-name-related topics. The website
also has quizzes and cartoons to help visitors learn themechanism of the Internet and the basics of domain names ina fun manner.

ドメインまるわかり.jp

http://ドメインまるわかり.jp/

DS Records of the JP Zone Registered in the Root Zone (December)
DS records are necessary for building a chain of trust in DNSSEC from the root zone to the JP zone.
JPRS applied for the registration of the DS records to IANA*⁴ and completed the registration andpublication in the root zone on December 10, 2010. This advanced ﬁnal preparations toward theintroduction of DNSSEC to the JP domain name service in January 2011.
http://jprs.jp/info/notice/20090709-dnssec.html (in Japanese)*4 IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Registry Report07

01 Registry Activities

Education and Promotion
Jan.

JANOG25 Meeting
JPRS took charge of Q&A regarding the current status and operation of DNSSEC andprovided information on internationalized email addresses being standardized at IETF.

Jan.

Anti-phishing Seminar
At a seminar held by the Anti-phishing Council of the Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry, JPRS discussed the current situation of phishing and countermeasures from thestandpoint of the JP domain name registry.

Feb.

12th ThinkQuest JAPANJPRS supported the 12th ThinkQuest JAPAN , a Web contest for junior and senior highschool students. We provided 84 General-use JP domain names (both in Japanese andASCII) free of charge for 42 exhibits so that they could have original domain names. JPRS
also presented the Best Domain Name Award to the team who had chosen the mosteﬀective domain name to increase the appeal of their work.

Mar.

HOSTING PRO2010
JPRS explained the latest trends of the domain name and DNS, as well as issues to be dealt
with by hosting operators in the implementation of DNSSEC.

Jun.

Interop Tokyo 2010
At the conference Practical DNS Operation: Toward
the Full-scale Spread of DNSSEC , JPRS explained
DNSSEC operation methods. At the JPRS booth, we
held mini-seminars on the basics of domain names
and technological information on DNSJRPS boothJun.

IPv6 Seminar for Engineers 2010
JPRS introduced the latest trends of DNS and new TLDs at a seminar held by Hiroshima
Regional IPv6 Promotion Committee.

Jul.

JANOG26 Meeting
JPRS introduced the results of our survey on DNSSEC operation load in the authoritative
DNS server.

08 Registry ReportJul.

DNSSEC 2010 Summer ForumAt a forum held by DNSSEC Japan, JPRS explained the system of DNSSEC andthe background of its introduction to the JP domain name service.
At the 9th DNSOPS.JP BoF held at the same time, we presented details about thefaults corrected by BIND 9.7.1-P2.

Jul.

Beginners Seminar on How to Make Good Use of Websites
At a seminar held jointly by the Chambers of Commerce in Suita, Osaka, Amagasaki,
Ibaraki and Toyonaka, JPRS discussed the necessity of corporate PR via the Internet,
as well as the basics of domain names and their use.

Nov.

Internet Week 2010
At the DNSSEC Tutorial, JPRS explained the DNSSEC system and settings. We also
talked about key points in realizing smooth DNSSEC operations, and some examples oftroubles.
In the DNS Day session, JPRS presented statistics on JP DNS, domain name trends, andthe global movement toward the deployment of DNSSEC.
At the 10th DNSOPS.JP BoF, we explained BIND9.7.2 functions and the system of the
DNSSEC-compatible test environment.

Nov.

Small- to Medium-scale Company IT Seminar Introduction to
Making Good Use of Websites

At a seminar held by the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, JPRS presented domain-name-related
techniques that companies can apply to guiding users to their websites.

Registry Report09

01 Registry Activities

01・3

International Relations

1. Activities at IETF
（1）Revision of Internationalized Domain Name Protocol
Internationalized domain names (IDN) refer to domain names in kanji, Hangeul, and othernon-ASCII (alphanumeric) characters. IDN is an international standard for which an RFC was
issued by the IETF in 2003.
Internationalized domain names were found to have some problems in their operation, and so theprotocol was revised to solve these problems through several RFCs (RFC5890 to 5894) issuedin August 2010.
Responding swiftly to the revised protocol, JPRS developed the internationalized domain name
Tool Kit idnkit-2 and publicized it as open source software in July 2010.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2010/100720.html（2）Promotion of the Standardization of Internationalized Email Addresses
Email Address Internationalization (EAI) was standardized as the experimental protocol in the period
from 2008 to 2010. This international standard allows non-alphanumeric characters to be used in any
part of an internationalized email address combined with an internationalized domain name.
JPRS engineers wrote RFC5825 Displaying Downgraded Messages for Email Address
Internationalization , which was issued in April 2010. This RFC prescribes a method for displaying
messages downgraded to maintain compatibility with the conventional email system in the MUA (MailUser Agent) of EAI-enabled email software.
Following the experimental protocol, the standardization of internationalized email addresses entered
the phase of making a standard protocol for actually using these addresses. JPRS engineers
participate in drafting protocol documents.

（3）Promotion of ENUM Standardization
ENUM is an international standard for using DNS to correlate telephone numbers (E.164 numbers)
with Internet resources, such as email addresses and website addresses (URI). ENUM wasstandardized in September 2000 and revised in April 2004.
Following the revision in April 2004, ENUM (RFC3761) continuously went through revisions up to2010, with a JPRS engineer participating as a co-author. The revision work is almost completed anda new RFC is expected to be issued in the ﬁrst half of 2011.

10 Registry Report（4）Promotion of the Standardization of Internationalized Identiﬁer Preprocessing
Internationalized identiﬁers generally refer to identiﬁers consisting of non-alphanumericcharacters (i.e., internationalized) to uniquely identify domain names, email addresses, andwebsite addresses on the Internet. Examples of internationalized identiﬁers are internationalized
domain names and internationalized email addresses.
For an internationalized identiﬁer to identify a unique address on the Internet, identiﬁers must becompared and matched up correctly. To this end, identiﬁers containing non-alphanumericcharacters must undergo proper preprocessing (e.g., conversion between uppercase andlowercase characters). At present, preprocessing is done by stringprep (RFC3454), but this must
be revised in line with revisions made to internationalized domain names.
To discuss revisions to stringprep, the PRECIS Working Group (WG) was set up in June 2010.
An engineer from JPRS is currently co-chairing this WG.

Registry Report11

01 Registry Activities

2. Participation in ICANN and Other International Discussions
ICANN is a private non-proﬁt organization established in the United States in 1998 to coordinate
resources underpinning the Internet, such as domain names, IP addresses, protocols, and root servers.
Since it was founded, JPRS has been actively participating in the organizing of ICANN and studies
of various policies, supporting the management and coordination of Internet resources led by theprivate sector with ICANN playing the central role. In 2002, JPRS signed a ccTLD Sponsorship
Agreement with ICANN, by which ICANN entrusts JPRS to be the registry of Japan s ccTLD jp .
To date, JPRS has been participating in presentations and meetings held by a variety of organizations
set up in ICANN, contributing to discussions of policies and action plans to cope with problems facing
ICANN and registries. JPRS is engaged in the following activities carried out in ICANN.

（1）ccNSO
ccNSO*¹ is one of the Supporting Organisations set up in ICANN to support its activities. The role ofccNSO 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. Since ccNSO was established in 2003,
JPRS has been a member and has also served as a member of the ccNSO Council.
One of the achievements JPRS made in ccNSO is the planning and designing of the IDN ccTLD Fast
Track Process. Since the oﬃcial start of this process in November 2009, applications have been
made for 33 character strings (in 22 languages), of which 15 have been approved by ICANN andentered in the root zone as IDN ccTLDs (as of January 20, 2011). In Japan, the procedure to selectcandidates for the .日本 registry was taken according to this process.
While implementing the ccTLD Fast Track Process, ccNSO started full-scale discussions on theestablishment of permanent policies. In the ﬁrst half of 2010, a section meeting started to review thedeﬁnition of characters allowed in IDN ccTLDs, and another meeting to review the ICANN Bylaws.
JPRS participates as an observer in the former and as the chair in the latter.
With the introduction of new gTLDs close at hand, ccNSO members have frequently talked aboutmarketing activities to establish the ccTLD brand. At the ccNSO meeting held in March 2010,
examples presented by JPRS and EURid (.eu) spurred active discussion on how to establish trust in
ccTLDs and promote the ccTLD brand to the Internet community.
In addition, JPRS participated in the ccNSO wildcard study group and the strategy/business plan
study group, and gave presentations on DNSSEC implementation eﬀorts in Japan, thus continuing tocontribute to the global activities of the ccTLD community in 2010.
*1 ccNSO: Country Code Names Supporting Organisation

12 Registry Report

（2）SSACSSAC*², one of the Advisory Committees in ICANN, advises the ICANN community and the ICANN
Board on issues related to Internet security and stability. SSAC consists of experts on technologies,
such as TLD registries, registrars, root server operators, and Internet-related researchers.
JPRS, an SSAC member since 2007, has been making the most of its experience as a ccTLD registry
and participating in activities to ensure that the Internet operates stably at the global level.

*2 SSAC: Security and Stability Advisory Committee

Registry Report13

01 Registry Activities

3. Participation in Registry Organizations（1）APTLDJPRS has been a member of APTLD*¹ since 2002 and also served as the board member to play apart in its operation.
As the registry of JP domain names, JPRS makes suggestions for improvements of APTLD activities,
provides information, and leads discussions at presentations and meetings so that we can accumulate
experience and know-how and raise service standards throughout the ccTLD community in the
Asia-Paciﬁc region.
In 2010, APTLD chose IDN, security, and IPv6 as key issues, promoted information exchanges
between ccTLD registries, and held technical training to support regional development. As a ccTLD
member, JPRS made presentations at various meetings and, also as a board member, contributed tothe planning of these meetings.

（2）CENTR
CENTR*² is an association consisting of ccTLD registries mainly in the European region. As an
associate member, JPRS shares information and exchanges opinions with other CENTR members.
In 2010, a topic that has attracted heated global discussion was DNS blocking of illegal/inappropriate
content on the Internet. Regarding this issue, JPRS submitted its basic principles as a domain nameregistry. CENTR is working to express opinions as a registry association, with the agreements ofregistries from each country.

*1 APTLD: Asia Paciﬁc Top Level Domain Association*2 CENTR: Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries

14 Registry Report

4. Other International Activities（1）Participation in AP*Retreat
AP*Retreat meetings are held twice a year, in principle, forInternet-related organizations in the Asia-Paciﬁc region andother organizations that play important roles in the Internet ineach country or economy. In the meetings, representatives ofeach organization report on their activities and share theirconcerns about various issues. In addition, participants
discuss how the Asia-Paciﬁc community should tackle
Internet-related issues.
AP*Retreat meeting

At the AP*Retreat held on the Gold Coast of Australia in
August 2010, JPRS took up the theme ccTLD in the age of IDN ccTLD to share information about
ICANN activities and issues to be addressed. For example, the ICANN Bylaws allow no ccTLD
registries to be ccNSO members, who therefore have no rights to vote for the ccNSO Council
members. On the other hand, if IDN ccTLD registries were given ccNSO membership rights and one
voting right each, countries or economies maintaining a number of IDN ccTLDs would gain manyballots. At the Retreat meeting, JPRS explained this issue and called for attention to global trends thatwould greatly aﬀect the Asia-Paciﬁc region.

（2）Participation in Root DNS Server Operator Organizations Meetings
Representatives of root DNS server operator organizations regularly meet on the ﬁrst day of IETF
meetings, which are held three times a year. At these meetings, participants share information
principally on the stability of server operations and topics related to the latest technology. In 2010,
the main topic of conversation was how to implement DNSSEC safely and smoothly in the rootzone. JPRS has been participating in these meetings as the organization in charge of M-Root DNS
server operations.

（3）Participation in the BIND 10 Development Project
BIND is the most widely used DNS server software on the Internet. In April 2009, ISC, a non-proﬁtorganization in the United States, announced a plan to improve the security and robustness of thissoftware and set up a project to develop the next-generation BIND 10. JPRS supports the objectivesof this project and participates in it from the development stage as one of the initial members.
This project has participants from many TLD registries around the world, such as CIRA (.ca) and
DENIC (.de). JPRS is taking an active part in this project by not only oﬀering ﬁnancial support, butalso assigning its engineers to development teams.
The ﬁrst BIND 10 prototype was released in March 2010, and the other prototypes have since beenreleased for developers.

Registry Report15

01 Registry Activities

01・4

Activities in Japan（1）Participation in DNSSEC JapanDNSSEC Japan was established in November 2009 for the purpose of introducing and disseminating
DNSSEC smoothly in Japan. JPRS actively participates in this initiative, with one employee serving
as Vice Chair of DNSSEC Japan.
In 2010, JPRS supported seminars and hands-on training at DNSSEC workshops held to explain the
protocol. Also in the technical veriﬁcation working group, JPRS provided a technical veriﬁcation
environment and prepared guidelines. The results of these DNSSEC Japan activities are publicizedon the Web.
In support of the DNSSEC 2010 Summer Forum held in July 2010, JPRS gave a presentation on
its own activities and schedules for introducing DNSSEC to the JP domain name service.
http://dnssec.jp/?page̲id=440（2）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 JPNIC and IAjapan. At the sessions heldin April and July 2010, JPRS reported issues on IDN ccTLD and other subjects studied by
ccNSO and discussed ICANN-related issues with the other participants.

16 Registry Report

01・5

Overview of this Term s Activities andChallenges for the Future

JPRS has constantly worked to strike a proper balance among reliability, stability, usability, and fee
performance, which constitute the basis of JP domain name registry services, while also improving
each of the four values.

Management and Administration of JP Domain Names
Activities to Enhance the Usability of JP Domain Names
JPRS stepped up eﬀorts to improve the value of JP domain names, aiming to encourage more users
to register and use domain names.
Speciﬁcally, JPRS set up the Geographic Type JP Domain Name Reconstruction Working Groupand started studies on the reconstruction of Geographic Type JP Domain Name. The purpose is tohave these domain names registered and used more easily by people in various areas and thereby
contribute to local development.

Activities to Enhance Understanding of JP Domain Names and Their Use
In 2010, JPRS continued its activities to increase public awareness and understanding of domainnames, while engaging in educational activities to teach the importance of choosing a right domainname and to propose ways to use them eﬀectively.
For example, as part of the Internet-related educational activities, JPRS accepted applications for a
free cartoon booklet How the Internet Works from teachers of junior and senior high schools andtechnical colleges across Japan, and distributed the booklet free of charge. The booklet contains astory that explains how the Internet works, and how we can reach a certain website and the system
of Internet addresses, or domain names , with many illustrations.
Our promotion activities ranged from working with news reporters and writing for journals, to giving
lectures at corporate seminars held by newspaper companies and chambers of commerce andindustry. Thus, in a variety of areas, we conducted educational activities to enhance theunderstanding of domain names and the Internet.
Regarding Japanese JP domain names, we introduced a greater number of usage examples to help
people recognize their uses and beneﬁts.

Registry Report17

01 Registry Activities

DNS Operations
Activities to Deploy DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name Service
JPRS stepped up preparations for the deployment of DNSSEC, DNS security extensions, in the
JP domain name service in January 2011. To this end, JPRS started DNSSEC signatures in the
JP zone in October 2010. In December, JPRS applied to IANA for the registration of DS recordsof the JP zone in the root zone , thus completing the registration and publication of DS records
in the root zone.
Also for the smooth introduction and diﬀusion of DNSSEC in Japan, JPRS participated in
DNSSEC Japan s activities and a variety of events, such as the DNSSEC 2010 Summer Forum
held in July 2010.
JPRS is going to implement DNSSEC in the JP DNS and JP domain name services provided by
JPRS itself, while conducting promotional and educational activities and providing information tovarious DNS-related parties.

R&D of Internet Technologies and International Activities
Promotion of International Standardization of Internet-related Technologies
To promote internationalized domain names, JPRS developed an IDN Tool Kit 2 named idnkit-2
which complies with the revised RFC on IDN soon after the revision in August 2010. idnkit-2 waspublicized as an open source software in July 2010.
RFC5825 (Displaying Downgraded Messages for Email Address Internationalization) written by a
JPRS engineer was issued in April 2010 to promote the standardization of internationalized email
addresses. Since the spring of 2010, the standardization of internationalized email addresses hasentered the phase of establishing a standard protocol, based on the demonstration experiment
protocol for actually using these addresses. JPRS engineers are involved in drafting protocol
documents.
Regarding the standardization of ENUM, eﬀorts for revising ENUM (RFC 3761), previously modiﬁed
in April 2004, continued in 2010; and a JPRS engineer has been co-authoring the revision document.
Another JPRS engineer acts as a co-chair in the PRECIS WG, which was set up in June 2010 topromote the standardization of internationalized identiﬁers.

Participation in the BIND 10 Development Project
Since April 2009, JPRS has participated in the project to develop the next version of DNS software,
BIND 10. JPRS is taking an active part in this project, by not only oﬀering ﬁnancial support but also
assigning its engineers to the project.
The ﬁrst BIND 10 prototype was released in March 2010.

18 Registry Report

02 Statistical Information

Change in the Cumulative Number ofRegistered JP Domain Names

02・1

As of January 1, 2011, the cumulative number of registered JP domain names reached 1,198,105,
marking an increase of 57,946 in one year.

1200000（Number of names）
Organizational/Geographic Type

General-use (ASCII)

General-use (Japanese)

1000000
800000600000400000200000Jun-93 Jun-94 Jun-95 Jun-96 Jun-97 Jun-98 Jun-99 Jun-00 Jun-01 Jun-02 Jun-03 Jun-04 Jun-05 Jun-06 Jun-07 Jun-08 Jun-09 Jun-10 Jun-11（Number of names）

Year/Month

Organizational/Geographic Type

General-use (ASCII)

General-use (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

33,73933,7391999/01

58,54958,5492000/01

124,573

124,573

2001/01

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

2007/01

363,768

394,404

124,153882,325

2008/01

378,903

468,125

141,858

988,886

2009/01

389,598539,212

134,921

1,063,731

234,294

2010/01

399,339

607,066

133,754

1,140,159

2011/01

406,856

667,538

123,711

1,198,105

Please refer to

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

Registry Report19

02 Statistical Information

Breakdown of the Cumulative Number ofRegistered JP Domain Names

02・2*As of January 1, 2011

General-use (Japanese)

10.3%

Organizational/
Geographic Type

General-use (ASCII)

55.7%

CO: 28.6%

ED: 0.4%

34.0%

NE: 1.4%
OR: 2.2%

GO: 0.07%
GR: 0.6%
LG: 0.2%
Geographic Type: 0.2%
AC: 0.3%
AD: 0.03%(Number of names)

JP Domain Name Types

1 January 2011
Number ofRegistrations

1 January 2010
Number ofRegistrations

3,512

3,528

ー16

275

274

+1

342,055

334,755+7,300

4,581

4,562

+19

AC: Higher education institution
AD: JPNIC Member
CO: Company
Primary school, junior andED:senior high school
Organizational/
Geographic Type

General-use

GO: Japanese government
GR: Group

751

791

ー40

7,627

8,024

ー397

LG: Japanese local authority

1,849

1,876

ー27

NE: Network service

16,685

16,987ー302

OR: Judicial body other than kaisha

26,85525,658+1,197

Geographic Type

2,666

2,884

ー218

ASCII

667,538

607,066+60,472

Japanese

123,711

133,754

ー10,043

1,198,105

1,140,159+57,946

Total JP Domain Name Registration
Please refer to Statistics (http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/) for the latest information.

20 Registry Report

Difference

02・3

Number of JP Domain Name Registrations
by Prefecture*As of January 1, 2011

Prefecture

Organizational/Geographic Type

General-use (ASCII)

General-use (Japanese)

Hokkaidou

2.8%

2.5%

1.1%

Aomori

0.5%

0.3%

0.1%

Iwate

0.4%

0.3%

0.1%

Miyagi

1.2%

0.8%

0.3%

Akita

0.4%

0.2%

0.4%

Yamagata

0.6%

0.3%

0.1%

Fukushima

0.8%

0.5%

0.2%

Ibaraki

1.4%

1.1%

0.6%

Tochigi

1.0%

0.6%

0.2%

Gunma

1.1%

0.7%

0.5%

Saitama

4.1%

2.8%

1.5%

Chiba

3.1%

2.5%

1.3%

Tokyo

32.8%

42.6%

70.0%

Kanagawa

6.7%

5.6%

3.2%

Niigata

1.1%

0.8%

0.4%

Toyama

0.7%

0.5%

0.2%

Ishikawa

0.8%

0.6%

0.2%

Fukui

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Yamanashi

0.5%

0.4%

0.2%

Nagano

1.4%

0.9%

0.5%

Gifu

1.2%

0.8%

0.3%

Shizuoka

2.3%

1.6%

0.7%

Aichi

5.5%

3.6%

2.7%

Mie

0.8%

0.6%

0.4%

Shiga

0.6%

0.5%

0.3%

Kyoto

2.0%

2.6%

1.5%

Osaka

9.6%

13.0%

4.8%

Hyogo

3.1%

2.6%

2.3%

Nara

0.6%

0.5%

0.3%

Wakayama

0.4%

0.3%

0.1%

Tottori

0.2%

0.2%

0.1%

Shimane

0.3%

0.2%

0.1%

Okayama

1.1%

0.8%

0.5%

Hiroshima

1.6%

1.1%

0.6%

Yamaguchi

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Tokushima

0.3%

0.3%

0.2%

Kagawa

0.5%

0.5%

0.2%

Ehime

0.6%

0.6%

0.2%

Kochi

0.3%

0.2%

0.1%

Fukuoka

3.0%

2.6%

2.2%

Saga

0.3%

0.2%

0.2%

Nagasaki

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Kumamoto

0.7%

0.6%

0.2%

Oita

0.4%

0.3%

0.1%

Miyazaki

0.4%

0.3%

0.1%

Kagoshima

0.5%

0.4%

0.1%

Okinawa

0.6%

0.6%

0.4%
Registry Report21

02 Statistical Information

02・4
100

Transition of DNS Configuration Rate

(％)

90
80

70
Organizational/Geographic Type60

General-use (ASCII)
General-use (Japanese)

50

Year/Month

January, 2009

January, 2010

Organizational/Geographic Type

January, 2011

General-use (ASCII)

General-use (Japanese)

January, 2009

98.1%

94.3%

71.4%

January, 2010

98.3%

95.4%

75.1%

January, 2011

99.0%

96.3%

76.0%

22 Registry Report02・5

Number of Accredited JP Registrars

Organizational/Geographic Type600

General-use(Number of Registrars)

500
400
300
200
100
0

Apr-01

Jan-02 Jan-03

Jan-04Jan-05Jan-06

Jan-07

Jan-08Jan-09Jan-10Jan-11(Number of Registrars)

Year/Month

Organizational/Geographic Type

General-use

Total

April, 2001

443

443

January, 2002

490

490

January, 2003

560

546

1,106

January, 2004

557

559

1,116

January, 2005

553

564

1,117

January, 2006

562

576

1,138

January, 2007

559

572

1,131

January, 2008

557

573

1,130

January, 2009

558

577

1,135

January, 2010

556

578

1,134

January, 2011

564

583

1,147

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

Registry Report23

02 Statistical Information

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

02・6

12

(Number of cases)

10
8
6
4
2
0

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

(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

For details of domain name disputes, please refer to the JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy (JP-DRP) posted by the Japan Network Information Center (http://www.nic.ad.jp/en/drp/).

24 Registry Report

2008

2009

2010

03 Reference

03・1

History

2000
2001

Dec.
Feb.
Apr.
May

JPRS was established.
General-use JP Domain Priority Registration Phase started.
General-use JP Domain Concurrent Registration Phase started.
General-use JP Domain Formal FCFS Registration started.

2002

Feb.
Apr.
Oct.
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.

Total number of JP domain name registrations reached 500,000.
JPRS received 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.
Feb.
Jul.
Dec.

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

2005

Jan.

The portal site Jinmei jiten dot JP (http://人名事典.jp/) for promoting Japanese
JP Domain Name was launched.
Work on eliminating risks due to inadequate management of DNS servers was started.
Eki Machi Guide (http://駅街ガイド.jp/), which provides information on areas aroundstations using Japanese JP domain names which consist of station names throughout
Japan, started.
JPRS started operation of the M-Root DNS server in cooperation withWIDE Project. 2006
JPRS started deleting improper DNS server registrations.
Cumulative number of JP domain names exceeded 800,000.
JPRS shortened processing time for JP DNS update.
JPRS changed the number of GO.JP domain names which each government organization
can register.
Japanese JP domain names reserved for the government were released for relevant
government organizations.
Cumulative number of General-use JP domain names exceeded 500,000.
JPRS published guidelines for making URL consisting of Japanese domain name clickablein email text.

Jun.
Dec.
Dec.
Jan.
Mar.
Apr.
Sep.

Nov.
Dec.
2007

Jan.
Mar.
Dec.

Cumulative number of registered CO.JP domain names exceeded 300,000.
Procedure for recovering deleted domain name registration was introduced forGeneral-use JP domain names.
IP Anycast technology was introduced to the JP DNS service ( e.dns.jp ).

2008

Mar.
Jun.
Oct.

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

2009

Apr.
Jul.
Nov.

JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project.
JPRS announced its plan to implement DNSSEC in JP domain name services.
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.
JPRS announced its plan to start DNSSEC for JP domain name services in January 2011.

Jul.

Registry Report25

03 Reference

03・2

JP Domain Name Advisory Committee

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 withvarious viewpoints consider policies for JP domain names. Below are the issues which werediscussed in the committee in 2010.

(1) Consultations and Advisories
Consultation/Advisory

Consultation Date
Document No.

Advisory Date
Document No.

Introduction of DNS security extensions(DNSSEC)

Mar. 29, 2010
Sep. 7, 2009
JPRS-ADV-2009001 JPRS-ADVRPT-2009001

Reconstruction of Geographic Type JP Domain
NameAug. 25, 2010
Dec. 28, 2010
JPRS-ADV-2010001 JPRS-ADVRPT-2010001

Method for appointing the members of the 6th
JP Domain Name Advisory Committee

Oct. 27, 2010
Dec. 16, 2010
JPRS-ADV-2010002 JPRS-ADVRPT-2010002*Please refer to JP Domain Name Advisory Committee (http://jprs.co.jp/en/advisory.html) for details.

26 Registry Report(2) Advisory Committee Meetings
Mar. 331st JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meetingAn agreement was reached regarding a draft report drawn up in response to the inquiry
Introduction of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) (JPRS-ADV-2009001).

May. 1232nd JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting
JPRS reported its action regarding the report Introduction of DNS Security Extensions(DNSSEC) (JPRS-ADVRPT-2009001).
JPRS explained the general situation of JP domain names and other topics related to thedomain name, and committee members made various comments on the subjects.

Aug. 25

33rd JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meeting
JPRS reported its action regarding the report Policy for correlating .日本 with .JP if JPRS
is to manage .日本 (JPRS-ADVRPT-2008001).
Committee members made comments on the inquiry Reconstruction of Geographic TypeJP Domain Name (JPRS-ADV 2010001) submitted by JPRS.

Oct. 27

34th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meetingAn agreement was reached on a draft report drawn up based on the discussions at the 34th
meeting in response to the inquiry Reconstruction of Geographic Type JP Domain Name .
Committee members made comments on the appointment method regarding the inquiry
Method for appointing the members of the 6th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee(JPRS-ADV-2010002) submitted by JPRS, and it was agreed to use the current
appointment method.

Dec. 1635th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee meetingAn agreement was reached on a draft report drawn up in response to the inquiry
Reconstruction of Geographic Type JP Domain Name (JPRS-ADV 2010001).
An agreement was reached on a draft report drawn up in response to the inquiry Method
for appointing the members of the 6th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee(JPRS-ADV-2010002).

Registry Report27

03 Reference

03・3

Proposals and Presentations* Original materials are written in English, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

DateJan. 21

Title
Email address internationalization - Introductionof non-ASCII email addresses - (in Japanese)

Jan. 22
Let s ﬁnd out about DNSSEC (in Japanese)
Jan. 28 to 29 Present situation and countermeasures forphishing in .JP
Feb. 1JPRS activities on monitoring and measurementof JP DNS and the registry system
Feb. 25
Feb. 26
Mar. 4At

Hosted by

JANOG25 meeting

JANOG (*1)

JANOG25 meeting
Anti-phishing Seminar

JANOG

2nd Global Annual Symposium
on DNS Security, Stability and
Resiliency

ICANN (*3)

Report on 21st CENTR Technical Workshop
Seizure of domain names upon civil decree
Latest trends of domain names and DNS (inJapanese)

Anti-phishing Committee (*2)/Ministryof Economy, Trade and Industry

CENTR GACENTR GAHOSTING PRO 2010
(Kokusai Fashion Center,
KFC Hall)
Imminent issues of 2010 Measures for IPv6 and HOSTING PRO 2010
DNSSEC - DNSSEC (in Japanese)(Kokusai Fashion Center,
KFC Hall)Research on the domain name market - jp
ICANN ccNSO member
meeting (Kenyatta
International ConferenceCenter)Japanese IDN and search navigation
INET Asia 2010 (Hong Kong
Convention and Exhibition
Centre)ICANN Debrieﬁng Session
Report on ccNSO-related issues (in Japanese)(Fuji Soft Akiba Plaza)2010 TOPIC Seminar,
Introduction to DNSSEC (in Japanese)training session

CENTR (*4)
CENTR
HOSTING-PRO Executive
Committee (*5)

Jun. 8

Basics of DNSSEC (in Japanese)

Interop Tokyo 2010
Executive Committee (*11)

Jun. 16

Cooperation with communities in DNS andDNSSEC
Latest trends of new TLDs (in Japanese)

Mar. 4Mar. 9Apr. 14
Apr. 20
Apr. 23

Jun. 18
Jun. 18
Jun. 23
Jun. 27
Jul. 1
Jul. 8Jul. 21
Jul. 21
Jul. 21
Jul. 21
Jul. 21
Jul. 21
Jul. 26
Aug. 528 Registry Report

Interop Tokyo 2010 Workshop
Practical Operation of DNS: For
the Full-scale Spread of DNSSECAP Regional IGF (Cyberport,
Hong Kong)
IPv6 Seminar for Engineers
2010 (Hiroshima Prefectural
Gymnasium)
Latest trends of DNS (in Japanese)
IPv6 Seminar for Engineers
2010
Community initiatives on DNSSEC
ccNSO Members Meeting(Square Brussels Meeting
Centre).JP Update
APTLD Meeting
R&D activities in JPRSSE and Afnic 2nd R&D
workshop (.SEOﬃce@Stockholm)
DNSSEC operation: authoritative DNS Server (in JANOG26 Meeting
Japanese)
What is DNSSEC? (in Japanese)
DNSSEC 2010 Summer
Forum
Schedule for implementing DNSSEC in .JP (inDNSSEC 2010 Summer
Japanese)
Forum
Root zone KSK management - Participating in
DNSSEC 2010 Summer
ICANN KSK Ceremony 2 (in Japanese)
Forum ‒ To solve problems ofoperation technology
DNSSEC trial with Dutch software (in Japanese) 9th dnsops.jp BoF
TCR and I (in Japanese)
9th dnsops.jp BoF
BIND 9.7.1-P2 (in Japanese)
9th dnsops.jp BoF
An IDNA2008 implementation - idnkit-2.0
IETF78 Application Area
Open Meeting
Report on ccNSO-related issues (in Japanese)
ICANN Debrieﬁng Session(Fuji Soft Akiba Plaza)

HOSTING-PRO Executive
Committee
ccNSO (*6)

ISOC (*7)
JPNIC (*8)/IAjapan (*9)
TOPIC (*10)

APrIGF (*12)
IPv6 Promotion Committee in
Hiroshima (*13)
IPv6 Promotion Committee in
Hiroshima
ccNSO
APTLD (*14).SE (*15)/Afnic (*16)
JANOG
DNSSEC Japan (*17)
DNSSEC JapanDNSSEC JapanDNSOPS.JP (*18)
DNSOPS.JPDNSOPS.JPIETF (*19)
JPNIC/IAjapan

Date

Title

Aug. 13

Current state of DNSSEC

Aug. 23

Deﬁnition of ccTLD changing?

Sep. 3DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) - DNS
security extensions and implementation method(in Japanese)
DNSSEC measures for cache DNS server (inJapanese)

Sep. 27
Oct. 30
Nov. 1

ccNSO with IDN ccTLDs - from the aspect ofICANN Bylaws
DNS Blocking against illegal/inappropriate
content

Nov. 25DNSSEC Tutorial - Practices (in Japanese)

Nov. 25

Enduring love and parent-child ties are key tosecurity - Luncheon Talk on DNS (in Japanese)

Nov. 25

Global trend on DNSSEC implementation (inJapanese)

Nov. 25

JP DNS update (in Japanese)

Nov. 25

Sharing technical veriﬁcation results Report ontechnical veriﬁcation activities in JPRS (inJapanese)
Inappropriate Bogon ﬁlter setting in authoritative
DNS server (in Japanese)
Secret of http://test.dnssec-or-not.org/ (inJapanese)addzone/delzone BIND 9.7.2 new functions (inJapanese)

Nov. 25
Nov. 25
Nov. 25

*1
*2
*3
*4
*5
*6
*7
*8
*9
*10
*11
*12
*13
*14
*15
*16
*17
*18
*19
*20
*21
*22
*23

At

Hosted by

APAN - 30th
MeetingNetwork Security
Workshop
AP*Retreat (Marriott Gold
Coast)
ITmedia Virtual EXPO 2010

APAN (*20)

2010 training session for
employees in charge of
TOPIC Network
APTLD (Landmark Hotel
Amman)APTLD (Landmark Hotel
Amman)

Tohoku Open Internet
Community (TOPIC)

Internet Week 2010
DNSSEC Tutorial (Akihabara
Convention Hall)Internet Week 2010 lunch
seminar (Akihabara
Convention Hall)Internet Week 2010 DNS
DAY (Akihabara Convention
Hall)
Internet Week 2010 DNS
DAY (Akihabara Convention
Hall)
Internet Week 2010 DNS
DAY (Akihabara Convention
Hall)
10th DNSOPS.JP BoF

JPNIC

10th DNSOPS.JP BoF

DNSOPS.JP

10th DNSOPS.JP BoF

DNSOPS.JP

APstar (*21)
ITmedia Virtual EXPO
Executive Committee (*22)

APTLD (*23)
APTLD

JPNIC
JPNIC
JPNIC
JPNIC
DNSOPS.JP

http://www.janog.gr.jp/
JANOG: Japan Network Operators Group
http://www.antiphishing.jp/
Council of Anti-Phishing Japan
http://www.icann.org/
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.centr.org/
CENTR: Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries
http://hosting-pro.jp/
HOSTING-PRO Executive Committee
http://ccnso.icann.org/
ccNSO: Country-Code Names Supporting Organisation
http://www.isoc.org/
ISOC: Internet Society
http://www.nic.ad.jp/
JPNIC: Japan Network Information Center
http://www.iajapan.org/
IAjapan: Internet Association Japan
http://www.topic.ad.jp/
TOPIC: Tohoku Open Internet Community
http:/www.interop.jp/
Interop Tokyo 2010 Executive Committee
http://rigf.asia/
APrIGF: Asia Paciﬁc Regional IGF
http://www.supercsi.jp/ipv6deploy/
IPv6 Promotion Committee in Hiroshima Area
http://www.aptld.org/
APTLD: Asia Paciﬁc Top Level Domain Association
http://www.iis.se/.SE: The Internet Infrastructure Foundation
http://www.afnic.fr/
Afnic: Association Francaise pour le Nommage Internet en Cooperation
http://dnssec.jp/
DNSSEC Japan
http://dnsops.jp/
DNSOPS.JP: Japan DNS Operators Group
http://www.ietf.org/
IETF: The Internet Engineering Task Force
http://www.apan.net/
APAN: Asia-Paciﬁc Advanced Network
http://www.apstar.org/
APstar: The Community of Asia Paciﬁc Internet Organizations
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/info/itmexpo/2010
ITmedia Virtual EXPO Executive Committee
http://www.aptld.org/
APTLD: Asia Paciﬁc Top Level Domain Association
Registry Report29

03 Reference

03・4

Press Releases* Original materials are written in Japanese.

Date

Title

Mar. 1JPRS Supports the 12th ThinkQuest JAPAN, a Web Contest for Junior and SeniorHigh School Students, and Presents the Best Domain Naming Award (JPRS
Special Award)‑ Supporting Internet education of young people by allowing them to try using JP
domain names ‑Mar. 25

JPRS Releases JP Domain Name Registry Report 2009 Today‑ JP domain names recognized as one of the world s safest country code domains
for improved reliability and stability ‑May. 25

JPRS Distributes Free Cartoon Booklet How the Internet Works to Junior andSenior High Schools in Japan‑ Keen awareness of the importance of Internet-related education shown by
readers including teenagers ‑ Jun. 1

Jun. 1

Registration Starts for Participants of the JANOG26 Meeting Hosted by JPRS

Jun. 15

Yoshiro Yoneya of JPRS Appointed Co-chair of the IETF PRECIS Working Group‑ To contribute to the drafting of a standard protocol as the common foundation forInternet internationalization ‑Jun. 17

Masato Minda of JPRS Selected as TCR for DNSSEC Operation of ICANN s Root
Zone
‑ To contribute to DNSSEC implementation in the root zone, as a representative of
the Internet community ‑Jun. 24

Geographic Type JP Domain Name Reconstruction Working Group of JPRS
Conducts a Questionnaire Survey‑ User questionnaire survey starts today to encourage the registration and use of
Geographic Type JP domain names ‑Jul. 21

JPRS Will Deploy DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name Service in January 2011
‑ Making the Internet safer by improving the security of JP domain names ‑Oct. 27.jp Recognized as One of the World s Safest Domains for Second Consecutive
Year*Please refer to Press Release (http://jprs.co.jp/en/press/) for the latest releases in English.

30 Registry Report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 names, or domain names of Japan. You may have seen addresses for websites
and emails such as http://○○○.jp and △△△＠○○○.jp. We manage and administer a part ofthese 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. DNS 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, we are conducting
standardization activities and technical veriﬁcation for the smooth deployment of DNSSEC, amechanism for improved DNS security. We are also verifying the technical aspects of email addressinternationalization (EAI) that will allow non-ASCII 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: 28 Apr. 2011
Note: This English translation is provided for informational purposes only.
For accuracy, please refer to the Japanese version.
Copyright © 2011 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.

32 Registry ReportJapan Registry Services Co., Ltd.
http://jprs.co.jp/en/