• • About.kyoto
• • Purpose of .kyoto
• • Acquisition method
  • Founders Program
  • Trademark Clearinghouse
    （TMCH）
  • Character strings prohibited from registration
• • Terms of use

About .kyoto

The new top-level domain “.kyoto” is up and running.

Domain names show the Internet address and source of published information.

A glance at the usual name “.com” for example tells us the source is commercial. Meanings are assigned to all sorts of top-level domain (TLD) names.

The birth of a TLD (.kyoto) managed by an educational institution is unique in Japan.

Supported by Kyoto Prefecture and recognized by ICANN, the TLD will maximize the public good for all of Kyoto.

With ICANN’s accreditation, the project is run by The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, whose teaching method focusing on the common good is backed by Kyoto Prefecture. The effort will lift Kyoto’s brand while creating a safe, secure domain for youths.。

.kyoto aims to manage and regulate a clean domain. With students able to access and browse safe site listings, online class instruction is among the structural applications also being explored.
That’s why whitelist preparation is on the table. Coordination with area schools and PTAs is needed, and the call has gone out for their cooperation.

Fusing Kyoto’s physical world with the cyberspace of .kyoto

As an all-Kyoto system grows through administrative, industrial, school and regional coordination, the collection of Kyoto-related information will foster a sense of unity.

Strengthening Kyoto’s world-class brand

The Kyoto brand that ISO–certified .kyoto conveys to the world can be relied on.

The .kyoto domain disseminates finer points about Kyoto, linking enterprises, government authorities, educational institutions, and people of the prefecture. The search engine verifies the Kyoto brand when the domain tags a site.

Hypothetical case 1

The QR Code and the .kyoto domain name work hand in hand. The reliability of tracing an item to its source improves as the authentication system lets through the domain name!

Hypothetical case 2

Starting with Big Data analysis, all of the information collected via .kyoto is parsed and ultimately converted to business insight!

Hypothetical case 3

The platform enables progress toward a more convenient Kyoto community, bringing up cooperative area industries characteristic of the all-Kyoto efforts undertaken by .kyoto.

Base for Keihanna Open Innovation Center (Kyoto Prefecture-owned)

Cyber Kyoto Laboratory (Keihanna Open Innovation Center) has opened as an activity base. As an all-Kyoto system grows through administrative, industrial, school and regional coordination, the collection of Kyoto-related information will foster a sense of unity.

Cyber Kyoto Laboratory

Objective

Elevating the “Kyoto” brand

Enhancing information about the real Kyoto

Regional revitalization

".kyoto" Advisory Committee

".kyoto" Advisory Committee Secretariat

".kyoto" Advisory Committee Members