Published by Motoko on 30 Sep 2009

Do you want new Japanese ccTLDs?

jpBack in July, ICANN announced its plan to begin offering TLDs in different letters and characters other than Alphabet in 2010. The plan includes Japanese characters, which makes domains such as “.Japan” (see above) and “.Tokyo” (see below) possible.

tokyoSince then, several organizations such as Internet Associations in Japan have been discussing to set up Japanese Internet Domain Name Conference. The conference is now officially working with 16 organizations including Japan Lawyers Associations, TCA and Ministry of Internal Affairs. Continue Reading »

Japanese Online Market

Published by Motoko on 29 Oct 2007

Domains for Japanese Web Sites

“Do I need to have ‘.co.jp’ domain to rank well in Japanese search engines?” The quick and short answer to this question is, “No, ‘.co.jp’ domain doesn’t necessarily give you any points in search ranking.”

The longer answer to the question is…

Currently, there are 2 domain extensions available for Japan, “.xx.jp (such as .co.jp for companies and .ac.jp for schools)” and “.jp”. In order to obtain “.xx.jp” Continue Reading »

Japanese Search Engines