Japan (.jp):
JP Japanese International Domain Registration
All our Japanese domain name prices include the maintenance & all other 3rd party fees during the registration period. There are no other costs involved when registering Japanese domain names, no transfer fees and no hidden costs.
Registration:
To register your Japanese domain name, click here!
Restrictions: Japanese domain name registration, Second-level registrations require a Japanese mailing address; third-level registrations have varying rules depending on which second-level name they are beneath
Notes: Don't jp put "www" or the Japanese domain name type, ie. "jp", Thus for "www.101domains.jp" enter "101domains" and no more.
Please remember that Japanese domain names can only contain the following letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, Spaces are NOT ALLOWED.
.jp is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Japan.
It is administered by the Japan Registry Service.
Not long ago in Japan, the administration and management of .JP top-level domain was carried out by the organization Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC), with the recognition of the government ministries, as well as with ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which globally coordinates Internet resource related activities. Though in time the management and administration of the .JP top-level domain, went through some drastic changes and in order provide the service in a fair and efficient way it became necessary to transfer these responsibilities to a private company. So, due to the growing importance and size of the .jp registry, it was decided at the 11th General Meeting of JPNIC, in December 2000 that it was necessary to create a new corporation to manage the .jp domain. It was then the Japan Registry Service (JPRS) was created, and on June 30, 2003, officially assumed the duties of the .jp registry.
Today the JPRS operates a service that makes it easier for Japanese people to participate on the Internet. By making sure that organizations and individuals with a presence in Japan can register necessary domain names, in other words .jp registrations are only allowed if the registrant has a physical address in Japan.
Registrations are processed via accredited registrars and domain names with Japanese characters (kanji, hiragana or katakana) may be registered at the second level. Now what exactly does this mean? Like alphanumeric domain names, Japanese JP domain names can be registered in .JP name servers. The mechanism for Japanese Domain Name works the following way: When a Japanese domain name with Japanese characters gets typed into the browser the name converts by normalization and ACE encoding so that the server can accept it.
It can be beneficial to have a Japanese domain name since it will be recognizable for the average Japanese user and hence it works well within the advertisement industry. For instance TV commercials, Company Brochures and Business cards will have a greater impact whit a Japanese domain name.
If you want to access Japanese domain names you can use IDN-aware application software such as Web browser, Web servers and DNS.
Punycode works as the ACE encoder of Japanese Domain Names, for a detailed description please visit http://jprs.co.jp/.
It could be good to know that when operating a Japanese JP domain name in your DNS and/or Web server with RACE, you need to edit the settings. This can be done via the document "Japanese JP Domain Name Operation Guide (.pdf) at the above mention site unfortunately this document is only available in Japanese at the moment.
Here below follow some statistics of JP domain names.
The total amount of registered JP Domain Names 2009/07/01 Total: 1098360
Organizational Type and Geographic Type JP Domain Name (Total: 394943)
| AD | Members of JPNIC | 271 |
| AC | Universities, Technical schools, Incorporated schools | 3532 |
| CO | Incorporated companies, Limited companies | 330644 |
| GO | Government organizations, Government-affiliated organizations | 828 |
| OR | Foundation, Aggregate corporation | 25096 |
| NE | Network services | 17130 |
| GR | Arbitrary organization | 8070 |
| ED | Schools including primary, junior and senior high schools | 4554 |
| LG | Local Government | 1886 |
| GEO | Geographic Type | 2932 |
General-Use JP Domain Name (Total: 703417)
ASCII (Alpha-Numeric) 572433
Japanese (Japanese Domain Names) 130984
