Priority Access Program Period of Japanese com-Domains starts March,15

The com-Domain with Japanese characters is called xn--tckwe-Domain in Punycode. The DNS-System has to translate every domain with Japanese characters in Latin Punycode, since the DNS-System only understands Latin characters.

The conventional com-Domain consists of three characters.The traditional com-Domains owe their unparalleled success also to brevity. The Japanese com-Domain tops the conventional domain because it is even shorter. It consists of two Japanese characters.

There are four different registration steps for the com-Domains in Japanese:

-Priority Access Program

-Landrush Period

-General Availability

Details:
Sunrise Period : December 9, 2015 - March 14, 2016

Priority Access Program Period :March 15 - May 15, 2016

Landrush Program Period : May 16 - June 12, 2016

General Registration Period Start Date : June 13, 2016

The Priority Access Program ist the best method to register a domain with Japanese characters in a preferencial way: One has to own the exact same name at the traditional com-Domain. There have been IDN domains with Japanese characters left of the dot at the traditional .com domain name since a longer time, which means that both Latin and Japanese names can be registered with Japanese com-Domains at the Priority Access Program.

When using the Priority Access Program one must own the same name at the conventional com-Domain in order to register the name in the Japanese variant. The price is as low as in the "General Availability", even if one may register much earlier.

Hans-Peter Oswald http://www.domainregistry.de/xn--tckwe-Domain.html (English) http://www.domainregistry.de/xn--tckwe-domains.html (German) http://www.domainregistry.de/xn--tckwe-domains.html