Buy .jp Domain Name

Under JPRS rules, general-use .jp names are open to any individual, group or organisation that has a permanent postal address in Japan. The applicant does not need to be a Japanese national or to have set up a company in the country; what is required is the address. Organisational-type names such as co.jp or or.jp additionally expect a structure matching that type, and each registrant may hold only one name of that kind.

If you have no permanent postal address in Japan, you meet the .jp address requirement through a trustee service. The trustee, which has the Japanese address, appears as registrant of record, while the right to use and manage the domain stays with you. At Atak Domain the trustee service is a paid service and the current amount is shown during ordering, so you can apply without opening a company or office in Japan. The address exists solely to satisfy the registration condition; it imposes no separate rule about where your site is hosted.

Decide first how you will meet the Japanese address condition, then search for the name on our domain search page and add it to the cart. No documents are required, but if you have no permanent postal address in Japan, choose our trustee service: it is a paid service and the current amount is shown during ordering. Registration runs for one year at a time, and because the address condition applies throughout the registration period, the trustee arrangement has to continue with every renewal.

General-use .jp names are open to anyone with an address in Japan and do not look at the type of applicant. co.jp is one of the organisational types and is reserved for companies; in the same group, or.jp is for judicial persons, ne.jp for network service providers and ac.jp for educational institutions. In the organisational types each registrant may hold only one name, whereas general-use .jp carries no such limit.

Prefecture-type names put one of Japan's 47 prefecture names into the structure, as in yourbrand.tokyo.jp. They are registered under the same Japanese-address condition as general-use names and are useful when you want the address itself to show that you operate in a particular city or region. For a local store, a branch or a regional campaign, this is the practical way to set up a separate address.

No. The trustee arrangement exists solely to satisfy the requirement for an address in Japan; the trustee appears as registrant of record, while the right to use and manage the domain stays with you. Keeping the service running matters for the validity of the registration, because the condition applies throughout the registration period. Even if you change provider, the arrangement needs to continue, otherwise the registration condition stops being met.

To transfer a .jp domain, start the move on our domain transfer page and make sure the Japanese address requirement is still met under the new record. Where a trustee service covers it, that arrangement has to continue after the move. The remaining registration period is preserved, and your site keeps running as long as you do not change name servers.

A .jp WHOIS lookup shows whether a name is registered and the general state of the record. Because of data-protection obligations, the registrant's contact details are published only in limited form. A lookup will therefore usually show the status of the name and its registration dates. You can query any .jp name on the whois search page.

Yes. Google Search Central describes country code domains such as .jp as tied to a specific country and lists clear geotargeting among their advantages; .jp is not on Google's list of ccTLDs treated as generic. For a site aimed at searchers in Japan that is a clear signal, and the trade-off is that a country code domain can target only one country. If you sell in several markets, use the .jp name for a site dedicated to Japan alongside your global address.