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| 2000 | Dec 22 | Resolution is adopted at 11th Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) General Meeting to establish a new company for management and administration of .JP top-level domain. |
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| Dec 26 | Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) is established. | |
| 2001 | Feb 5 | JPRS signs contract with JPNIC to handle registration of General-Use JP Domain Names on behalf of JPNIC. |
| Feb 22 | JPRS starts Preliminary Registration Application Period for General-Use JP Domain Names. | |
| Apr 2 | General-use JP Domain Concurrent Registration Phase started. | |
| May 7 | JPRS launches First-Come-First-Served Basis Registration Application Period for General-Use JP Domain Names. | |
| Nov 9 | JPRS and JPNIC sign the Memorandum for the Transfer of Management and Administration of the .JP top-level domain. | |
| 2002 | Jan 30 | The Government of Japan informs ICANN that it endorses the transfer of the management and administration of the .JP toplevel domain from JPNIC to JPRS. |
| Jan 31 | JPRS signs contract with JPNIC for the transfer of management and administration of the .JP top-level domain. | |
| Feb 8 | IANA releases a report confirming JPRS as an appropriate delegee of the .JP top-level domain. | |
| Feb 27 | JPRS and ICANN sign the ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement. | |
| Apr 1 | The management and administration of the .JP top-level domain is transfered from JPNIC to JPRS. | |
| Oct 1 | JPRS establishes a new second level domain "LG" for Japanese local governments and starts registration of "LG.JP" domain names. | |
| Dec 20 | JPRS allocates shares to third parties (11 new shareholder companies). | |
| 2003 | Jun 30 | JPRS receives approval regarding internationalized domain name (IDN) service from ICANN. |
| Oct 1 | JPRS allocates shares to third parties (2 new shareholder companies). | |
| 2004 | Apr 1 | Partial transfer of JPRS shares held by JPNIC is approved (4 new shareholder companies). |
| 2005 | Dec 20 | JPRS started joint operation of the M-Root DNS server with WIDE Project. |
| 2006 | Apr 3 | JPRS shortened processing time for JP DNS update. |
| 2007 | Mar 4 | "Procedure for recovering deleted domain name registration" was introduced for General-use JP domain names. |
| Dec 4 | IP Anycast technology was introduced to the JP DNS service. | |
| 2008 | Mar 1 | Cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded 1 million. |
| 2009 | Apr 22 | JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project. |
| Jul 9 | JPRS announced its plan to implement DNSSEC in JP domain name services. | |
| 2011 | Jan 16 | JPRS deploys DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name services. | Feb 1 | Cumulative number of registered JP domain names exceeded 1.2 million. | Sep 26 | JPRS announced a new registration service of Prefecture Type JP Domain Names 2012. |
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