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(JPRS) was established.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5">2001</th> <td>Feb 5</td> <td>JPRS signs contract with JPNIC to handle registration of General-Use JP Domain Names on behalf of JPNIC.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Feb 22</td> <td>JPRS starts Preliminary Registration Application Period for General-Use JP Domain Names.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Apr 2</td> <td>General-use JP Domain Concurrent Registration Phase started.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 7</td> <td>JPRS launches First-Come-First-Served Basis Registration Application Period for General-Use JP Domain Names.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nov 9</td> <td>JPRS and JPNIC sign the Memorandum for the Transfer of Management and Administration of the .JP top-level domain.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="7">2002</th> <td>Jan 30</td> <td>The Government of Japan informs ICANN that it endorses the transfer of the management and administration of the .JP toplevel domain from JPNIC to JPRS.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jan 31</td> <td>JPRS signs contract with JPNIC for the transfer of management and administration of the .JP top-level domain.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Feb 8</td> <td>IANA releases a report confirming JPRS as an appropriate delegee of the .JP top-level domain.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Feb 27</td> <td>JPRS and ICANN sign the ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Apr 1</td> <td>The management and administration of the .JP top-level domain is transfered from JPNIC to JPRS.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oct 1</td> <td>JPRS establishes a new second level domain "LG" for Japanese local governments and starts registration of "LG.JP" domain names.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dec 20</td> <td>JPRS allocates shares to third parties (11 new shareholder companies).</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2003</th> <td>Jun 30</td> <td>JPRS receives approval regarding internationalized domain name (IDN) service from ICANN.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oct 1</td> <td>JPRS allocates shares to third parties (2 new shareholder companies).</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2004</th> <td>Apr 1</td> <td>Partial transfer of JPRS shares held by JPNIC is approved (4 new shareholder companies).</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2005</th> <td>Dec 20</td> <td>JPRS started joint operation of the M-Root DNS server with WIDE Project.</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2006</th> <td>Apr 3</td> <td>JPRS shortened processing time for JP DNS update.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2007</th> <td>Mar 4</td> <td>"Procedure for recovering deleted domain name registration" was introduced for General-use JP domain names.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dec 4</td> <td>IP Anycast technology was introduced to the JP DNS service.</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2008</th> <td>Mar 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2009</th> <td>Apr 22</td> <td>JPRS announced its participation in the BIND 10 development project.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jul 9</td> <td>JPRS announced its plan to implement DNSSEC in JP domain name services.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">2011</th> <td>Jan 16</td> <td>JPRS deploys DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name services.</td> </tr> <td>Feb 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.2 million.</td> </tr> <td>Sep 26</td> <td>JPRS announced a new registration service of Prefecture Type JP Domain Names 2012.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2012</th> <td>Aug 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.3 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap">Nov 18</td> <td>JPRS launched a new registration service of Prefecture Type JP　Domain Name.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="4">2013</th> <td>Mar 1</td> <td>The number of Prefecture Type JP domain name registrations surpassed 10,000.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mar 13</td> <td>JPRS and JPNIC entered into the Memorandum with regards to the transfer of the management and administration of the .JP top level domain.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nov 1</td> <td>Osaka Office was established.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nov 6</td> <td>JPRS joined Japan Business Federation.</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2014</th> <td>Nov 3</td> <td>JPRS introduced Japanese Characters into Prefecture Labels of Prefecture Type JP Domain Names.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="4">2015</th> <td>Jun 22</td> <td>JPRS signed MoU with ICANN and JPNIC on Japanese translation of ICANN materials.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jul 9</td> <td>The new gTLD ".jprs" with the purpose of research and development in relation to the Internet was delegated from the root servers.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jul 13</td> <td>JPRS launched a Joint Research Project with ISPs to Create a More Fault-Tolerant DNS Environment.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oct 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.4 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2016</th> <td>Apr 26</td> <td>JPRS started digital certificates issuance service.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jun 13</td> <td>JPRS submitted a notification of the telecommunication business with the enforcement of the Law for Partial Revision to the Telecommunications Business Act, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="1">2017</th> <td>Oct 1</td> <td>The number of General-use JP domain name registrations surpassed 1 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="1">2018</th> <td>Feb 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.5 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="1">2019</th> <td>Sep 25</td> <td>JPRS acquired ISO 27001 certification.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2020</th> <td>Jan 21</td> <td>JPRS obtained WebTrust accreditation for Certification Authorities.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oct 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.6 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="1">2021</th> <td>Jul 12</td> <td>JPRS commenced the operation of the first local nodes for the JP DNS with 2 ISPs of the electric power corporation group.</td> </tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">2022</th> <td>Jun 1</td> <td>The number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.7 million.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sep 28</td> <td>JPRS expanded the floor space of Tokyo Head Office.</td> </tr> </table> <br 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