IDN Talk

With the Japanese IDN market I like to look at it from a local user point of view. In my prior posts about what extensions where available I looked at some of the domain registration companies & what they offer. (Of The Domain Registries in Japan what do they offer in terms of IDN Domains?)This list of companies did not include one major hosting company that specifically caters to the average internet user.

This week I saw that Lolipop hosting has started to offer IDN Domains. Unfortunately I believe they cut a deal with JPRS because they only offer IDN.jp users can’t register IDN.coms. But the important thing is they are offering domains at a whopping 400 yen that’s less than $4 guys.

This price will only last until June 16th. I have about 250 dot jps so it’s not enough of a discount to make me register with them because theres no indication of what the price will be afterwards, but for the mass thousands of existing customers 400 yen is a price that’s tempting to get a second domain in your own language.

This is a great move by JPRS they have been cutting deals with popular registries & hosting companies that didn’t offer IDNs before to offer IDNs in the dot jp extension.

I expect a spike this month in registrations just like last month…

Lilipop’s domain registration service is http://muumuu-domain.com/

You can check the JP registration stats here

http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/domains.html