Amazon Registry - Japanese IDN Schedule Update

[idnowner]

Registry operator Amazon Registry Services, Inc. has announced that the General Availability date for its Japanese IDN TLDs, below, will now commence on 30 July 2017.

書籍 (.book in Japanese)
クラウド (.cloud in Japanese)
ファッション (.fashion in Japanese)
食品 (.food in Japanese)
セール (.sale in Japanese)
ストア (.store in Japanese)
家電 (.consumer electronics in Japanese)


From:
https://comlaude.com/news/new-gtld-u...liberalisation

[thegenius1]

I'm not sure what I want to say about this.

[Drewbert]

Maybe the marketing from these will spill over into Verisign's, since they themselves apparently have no idea how to launch a TLD?

[sbe18]

Amazon rivals Google for consumer product search in the US and UK.
It should be interesting if they use the dot sale internally or let their partners use it.