.jp Name servers in Japan

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.jpName servers in Japan

• Yasuo Tsuchimoto
• Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
• Keio University, Japan

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Brief History of .jp

• 1989 a birth of .jp
• We used to use .JUNET
• 1987 birth of the Internet in Japan
• We started to play with BIND
• 1990 a birth of operational group
• BIND ADMIN (WIDE, TISN, JAIN)
• 1991 a birth of JPNIC
• When it was born, we called it JNIC
• 1996 Start to handle geographical domain
• 2000 JPRS was born
• 2002 JPRS started registry service
• 2001 Generic .jp started
• 2001 Japanese domain started
• 2002 JPRS start their work as a registry
• 2004 BGP Anycast services started
• 2004 IPv6 name lookup support

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.jp domain

• Categolized domain
• co commercial
• ac academic
• go government
• or organization
• ad network admin
• ne network service
• gr group
• ed educational
• lg local government

• Geographic domain
• Name of a city
• Its just like an address
• Example
• shinjuku.tokyo.jp

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.jp domain (cont)

• Generic domain
• Many request from commercial industry
• No restriction
• Its just like an .com / .net / .org / etc

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Discussion in Japan

• One domain for one organization
• Categorized domain
• Must have a resident in Japan
• How to play with 3rd Level domain?
• Why we have such rule?
• Many domains for anyone
• Exploding of the number
• Why we open our domain?

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Discussion in Japan (cont)

• Registry
• JPNIC (till 2002)
• JPRS (from 2002)
• Registrar
• Many!! More than enough!!!
• Registrar
• ISP act as registrar
• ASP act as registrar

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DNS related activities in Japan

• IPv6 support
• First ccTLD name server which support IPv6
• KR, FR are now also supporting IPv6
• Japanese domain (iDN)
• Request from commercial industry
• IP anycast
• To have a robust .jp name server
• ENUM
• VoIP
• DNS and Telephone number

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To create robust name server

• IP anycast
• Supported by major ISPs in Japan
• A.dns.jp JPRS
• B.dns.jp JPNIC
• C.dns.jp SPIN
• D.dns.jp IIJ
• E.dns.jp WIDE
• F.dns.jp SINET

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a.dns.jp
This figure comes from JPRS ppt file on the web
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Number of domains in Japan
Basic data comes from JPNIC
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Domain situation in Japan
Basic data comes from JPNIC
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Thank you for listening.Any Question?