Network operator associated with ASN/IP network resources
JPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.
JPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. is connected with ASN/IP network resources in Japan.
- Network operator associated with ASN/IP network resources
What to know first
- IdentityJPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd., CompanyHigh confidence
Basic information
- Display nameJPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.High confidence
- Directory categoryCompanyHigh confidence
- AliasesJapan Registry Services Co., Ltd.Medium confidence
- Last updatedJun 15, 2026High confidence
Locations
- Geography scopeJapanHigh confidence
- ASN/IP network resourcesJapanMedium confidence
Other network resources
- NetworkJPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. Japan ASN/IP network resources · JapanMedium confidence
Registry and related records
- Editorial contextIf JPRS Fails, Who Keeps .jp Running? Reading the Successor Machinery in the .jp Record, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) has operated .jp since 1 April 2002 under an unusually public set of governing instruments. But the question of what happens if JPRS itself fails — bankruptcy, insolvency, or a decided re-transfer — has not previously been the subject of BTW coverage, and the answer is not what the gTLD world would assume. The .jp ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement contains no Continued Operations Instrument; instead, the machinery for keeping .jp running if its operator fails lives in a bilateral 2002 contract between JPNIC and JPRS, in a three-party data escrow arrangement audited by JPNIC, and in the DNSSEC practice documents JPRS itself publishes. This report reads those instruments as one record and asks: whose authority actually keeps .jp running, and what would a successor operator have to do?Medium confidence
- Editorial contextForty Years of .jp, and the Month Its Own Numbers Were Wrong, When Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) marked the fortieth anniversary of the .jp domain on 5 August 2026, the announcement leaned on one number: approximately 1.88 million registrations as of 1 August 2026 ([JPRS anniversary announcement](https://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/2026/260805.html)). That figure is verifiable against the registry's own monthly table, which records 1,879,925 total registrations at 2026-08-01 ([time-series table](https://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/domains.html)). But the anniversary narrative sits on a statistical record that, only months earlier, had to be corrected in public. On 23 January 2026, JPRS published a correction notice stating that the 1 January 2026 registration figures on its website were erroneous; the corrected values — total 1,825,932, general-use JP 1,246,931, prefecture-type 10,498, organizational/geographic-type 568,503 — were republished in the FROM JPRS newsletter vol.1230 on 26 January 2026 ([correction notice](https://jprs.jp/whatsnew/notice/2026/260123.html); [newsletter vol.1230](https://jprs.jp/mail/backnumber/2026/260126.html)). This report reads the registry's celebrated trajectory through that record: what the JP Domain Name Registry Report 2025 says, what the correction changed and did not change, and what the published numbers actually show about the composition of .jp's growth.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextAn Advisory Committee, a Line of RDAP Output, and the Quiet Grammar of Registry Authority, On 7 July 2026, the 80th JP Domain Name Advisory Committee agreed that it is appropriate for JPRS's RDAP service to display the managing designated registrar name in JP domain name query results. The instrument chain behind that one line of output — memorandum, advisory consensus, a formal answer still pending, and an implementation decision that has not yet appeared on the public record — shows how registry transparency in Japan is governed by consensus rather than order, and who could still object at each step.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextThe JP-DRP remedy record: 195 transfers, 20 cancellations, 12 denials — and what JPRS's .jp dispute path actually does, Japan's domain-name dispute system is designed to be fast, and the published record now shows exactly what that speed buys: near-certainty of transfer for complainants, an almost ceremonial use of cancellation, and a remedy path that a determined respondent can still delay for years in court.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextThe Second Face of JPRS: The Contract Track That Sits Beside Japan's .jp Mandate, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. is usually described in one sentence: it runs .jp. That sentence covers only half of the company's authority. The other half is not delegated by anyone — it is bought, signed and renewed, and it is policed by a different institution with a different set of levers.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextWho Controls the .jp Registry? The Instrument Chain Above JPRS, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) sits at the center of a layered control surface for the .jp country-code top-level domain: IANA and ICANN grant its international authority, JPNIC and Japan's government can challenge it, and a 2025–2026 evaluation cycle plus a second ICANN registry contract quietly widened JPRS's mandate.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextChallenging a .jp Registration Just Got Easier: What the 2026 JP-DRP Rules Revision Actually Changed, Japan's procedure for disputing ownership of a .jp domain name was quietly modernised this spring — but its most consequential limits were left exactly where they were.Medium confidence
- Editorial contextWho Holds the Keys to .jp: An Instrument-by-Instrument Audit of JPRS's Registry Authority, Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS) operates the .jp country-code top-level domain, but the company's public profile as a registry says little about where its authority actually comes from, who can challenge it, and what has changed on that control surface recently. This article audits the instrument chain — IANA redelegation reports, the 2002 ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement, the JPRS–JPNIC Memorandum and the JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (JP-DRP) — and then measures what has moved on that chain in 2025 and 2026. The mechanism that matters: every power JPRS exercises over .jp was granted by a document, and every document names a procedure by which that power can be contested or withdrawn.Medium confidence
Source basis
- JPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. network directory recordIdentifies JPRS-GTLD Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. as a registry and marks the entry for additional service, asset, and relationship detail.Medium confidence
Related research
- Primary articleIf JPRS Fails, Who Keeps .jp Running? Reading the Successor Machinery in the .jp RecordHigh confidence
- Primary articleForty Years of .jp, and the Month Its Own Numbers Were WrongHigh confidence
- Primary articleAn Advisory Committee, a Line of RDAP Output, and the Quiet Grammar of Registry AuthorityHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe JP-DRP remedy record: 195 transfers, 20 cancellations, 12 denials — and what JPRS's .jp dispute path actually doesHigh confidence
- Primary articleThe Second Face of JPRS: The Contract Track That Sits Beside Japan's .jp MandateHigh confidence
- Primary articleWho Controls the .jp Registry? The Instrument Chain Above JPRSHigh confidence
- Primary articleChallenging a .jp Registration Just Got Easier: What the 2026 JP-DRP Rules Revision Actually ChangedHigh confidence
- Primary articleWho Holds the Keys to .jp: An Instrument-by-Instrument Audit of JPRS's Registry AuthorityHigh confidence