History
- 2000
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- Dec 22
- Resolution was adopted at 11th Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) General Meeting to establish a new company for management and administration of .JP top-level domain.
- Dec 26
- Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) was established.
- 2001
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- Feb 5
- JPRS signed contract with JPNIC to handle registration of General-use JP Domain Names on behalf of JPNIC.
- Feb 22
- JPRS started Preliminary Registration Application Period for General-use JP Domain Names.
- May 7
- JPRS launched First-Come-First-Served Basis Registration Application Period for General-use JP Domain Names.
- 2002
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- Jan 30
- The Government of Japan informed ICANN that it endorsed the transfer of the management and administration of the .JP top-level domain from JPNIC to JPRS.
- Feb 27
- JPRS and ICANN signed the ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement.
- Apr 1
- The management and administration of the .JP top-level domain was transfered from JPNIC to JPRS.
- Dec 20
- JPRS allocated shares to third parties (11 new shareholder companies).
- 2003
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- Jun 30
- JPRS received approval regarding Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) service from ICANN.
- Oct 1
- JPRS allocated shares to third parties (2 new shareholder companies).
- 2004
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- Apr 1
- Partial transfer of JPRS shares held by JPNIC was approved (4 new shareholder companies).
- 2005
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- Dec 20
- JPRS started joint operation of the M-Root DNS server with WIDE Project.
- 2006
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- Apr 3
- JPRS shortened processing time for JP DNS update.
- 2007
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- 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
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- Mar 1
- The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1 million.
- 2009
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- Apr 22
- JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project.
- 2011
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- Jan 16
- JPRS deployed DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name services.
- Feb 21
- JPRS started gTLD Registration Services.
- 2012
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- Nov 18
- JPRS launched a new registration service of Prefecture Type JP Domain Name.
- 2013
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- Mar 13
- JPRS and JPNIC entered into the Memorandum with regards to the transfer of the management and administration of the .JP top-level domain.
- Nov 1
- Osaka Office was established.
- 2014
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- Nov 3
- JPRS introduced Japanese characters into Prefecture Labels of Prefecture Type JP Domain Names.
- 2015
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- Jun 22
- JPRS signed MoU with ICANN and JPNIC on Japanese translation of ICANN materials.
- 2016
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- Apr 26
- JPRS started digital certificates issuance service.
- Jun 13
- JPRS submitted a notification of the telecommunication business with the enforcement of the Law for Partial Revision to the Telecommunications Business Act, etc.
- 2017
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- Sep 1
- The number of General-use JP domain name registrations surpassed 1 million.
- Oct 31
- JPRS and 8 ISPs of the electric power corporation group published the report of joint research on continued use of the Internet in case of a large-scale desaster.
- 2018
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- Feb 1
- The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.5 million.
- Nov 1
- JPRS started General Registration Application Period of Japanese JP Domain Names for school names.
- 2019
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- Sep 25
- JPRS acquired ISO27001 certification for its domain registry business.
- 2020
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- Jan 21
- JPRS obtained WebTrust accreditation for Certification Authorities.
