japanese domains - a developed network

[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?

[blastfromthepast]

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[Hotweb]

That is pretty crazy. An IDN portal.

[Rubber Duck]

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

[touchring]

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]

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]

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