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websjapan · #1 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 05:25 AM

someones been busy

http://駅街ガイド.jp/area.html?key=13

i think it means station shopping street guide (ekigaigaido)

all the links from this page goto a Japanese language domain in the following format:

town name + station

its a massive directory site with links mostly to a google maps page searched with businesses related to the link

anyone seen anything similar?

blastfromthepast · #2 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 05:38 AM

Hotweb · #3 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 05:44 AM

That is pretty crazy. An IDN portal.

Rubber Duck · #4 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 06:04 AM

Yeah, Japanese Registry promoting its own Japanese domain names. Weird, huh!

touchring · #5 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by websjapan

someones been busy

http://駅街ガイド.jp/area.html?key=13

i think it means station shopping street guide (ekigaigaido)

all the links from this page goto a Japanese language domain in the following format:

town name + station

its a massive directory site with links mostly to a google maps page searched with businesses related to the link

anyone seen anything similar?

I've seen this while checking on some smaller japanese city names .jp - they are reserved, but they link to a "station" page like that.

Olney · #6 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 06:06 AM

Japan registry launched that & had a bit of support from Google & Yahoo Japan from the press releases.
They also made a hanami guide.
The domains come up pretty well in SERPs.
They've always tried to show useful ways of using IDNs.

blastfromthepast · #7 (**permalink**) 10th August 2007, 06:15 AM

The Japanese registry actually took some of the best IDNs for themselves, and developed some of them.