Japan Registry Services

Japan Registry Services

Industry	domain name registration
Founded	December 26, 2000(2000-12-26)
Headquarters	Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Website	jprs.co.jp/en/

TheJapan Registry Services Co., Ltd.(JPRS) was incorporated on December 26, 2000. The organization manages the.jpccTLD,including the operation of theregistryandDNSservers.

History

JPRS came into existence out of a resolution at the 11th General Meeting ofJPNIC,who had until then been managing the.jp domain. It was decided that due to the growing importance and complexity of the.jp domain, a separate corporation should be created with the purpose of running the registry.

In the period following the resolution, details were worked out, a structure was set up, and then on 2003-06-30, JPNIC, in co-operation withICANN,transitioned the.jp domain to JPRS.

Activities

JPRS is the registry for the.jpdomain. In this capacity, they are responsible for the administration and operation of the.jp domain, interacting with the public through privateregistrars of record.

JPRS is also a participant in theinternationalized domain names(IDN) effort, which seeks to allow non-ASCIIcharacters to be used in domain names. JPRS supports Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) which is a system by which Japanese characters can be converted into an ASCII representation of those characters, allowing Japanese characters to be used in applications without the underlyingDNSbeing altered.

See also

• Domain Name System
• Country code top-level domain

External links

• Japan Registry Services