.jp Name servers in Japan Yasuo Tsuchimoto Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Keio University, Japan

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

.jp domain Categolized domain –cocommercial –acacademic –gogovernment –ororganization –adnetwork admin –nenetwork service –grgroup –ededucational –lglocal government Geographic domain –Name of a city –It’s just like an address –Example shinjuku.tokyo.jp

.jp domain (cont) Generic domain –Many request from commercial industry –No restriction –It’s just like an.com /.net /.org / etc…

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

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

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

To create robust name server IP anycast Supported by major ISPs in Japan –A.dns.jpJPRS –B.dns.jpJPNIC –C.dns.jpSPIN –D.dns.jpIIJ –E.dns.jpWIDE –F.dns.jpSINET

a.dns.jp This figure comes from JPRS ppt file on the web

Number of domains in Japan Basic data comes from JPNIC

Domain situation in Japan Basic data comes from JPNIC

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