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History

2000
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
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
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
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
Apr 1
Partial transfer of JPRS shares held by JPNIC was 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
The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1 million.
2009
Apr 22
JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project.
2011
Jan 16
JPRS deployed DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name services.
Feb 21
JPRS started gTLD Registration Services.
2012
Nov 18
JPRS launched a new registration service of Prefecture Type JP Domain Name.
2013
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
Nov 3
JPRS introduced Japanese characters into Prefecture Labels of Prefecture Type JP Domain Names.
2015
Jun 22
JPRS signed MoU with ICANN and JPNIC on Japanese translation of ICANN materials.
2016
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
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
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
Sep 25
JPRS acquired ISO27001 certification for its domain registry business.
2020
Jan 21
JPRS obtained WebTrust accreditation for Certification Authorities.
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