Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possible domains both in Roman alphabets and Japanese (international domain name) were quickly occupied.… Continue reading Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System

Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site

As reported on Google Help Forum in Japanese [J], some Japanese search users who searched on Google by “yahoo.co.jp” was taken to a site which has a strange domain “twakuwakuland.info”, but shows the totally same contents as Yahoo! Japan. People usually search Yahoo! Japan by “Yahoo” but not “yahoo.co.jp” (well, I don’t know why people… Continue reading Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site

National Anthem of Japan is Short Enough for Domain Name

The world shortest national anthem lyrics, which became an official national song 10 years ago and still provoking public controversy, seems to be taken as a Germany domain (.de) by someone with using the maximum allowed number of letters (63, according to RFC 1034). As you see, to make the lyrics properly end, it needs… Continue reading National Anthem of Japan is Short Enough for Domain Name