Probably the most noteworthy of the .JP happenings was the passing of the one million registrations mark on March 1, 2008. As of May 1 2009 the number stands at 1,090,476. For a country the size of Japan, with around 127 million people, this is a very low rate of registrations per capita.
Other activities reported on in the annual report were:
- a submission in response to a Notice of Inquiry by the U.S. Department of Commerce Regarding ICANN activities in February
- a promotion to help the public better .JP domain names including a website called JPRS100.JP
- implementation of a new system of CO.JP domain name applications between JP Registrars
- and JPRS
- promotion of CO.JP domain names to business
- submission of comments in response to a Notice of Inquiry by the U.S. Department of Commerce Regarding the Promotion of DNSSEC in November
- promotion of OR.JP domain names to incorporated associations and foundations in December
- IETF activities including standardisation of internationalised email addresses and a revision of the Internationalised Domain Name protocol
- ICANN, CENTR and APTLD participation
- submission of comments regarding the agreement between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce and another on DNSSEC
- publication of technical evaluation result of IDN TLD implementation method.
To download the annual report in English or Japanese [PDF], go to jprs.co.jp/en/topics/090525.html.
To register your .JP domain, check out EuroDNS here.