The Internet Timeline
Last Modified on 18th March 2022
Anker List
| Year | Month | Day | Title | Anker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 2 | ARPA was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#195801 | |
| 1967 | Birth of ARPANET plan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#196701 | ||
| 1968 | Summer | IMP (Interface Message Processor) was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#196801 | |
| 1969 | 10 | ARPANET started (4 nodes). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#196901 | |
| 1969 | UNIX was development by Bell Laboratories of AT&T. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#196902 | ||
| 1970 | 12 | NCP (Network Control Program) was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197001 | |
| 1972 | 3 | 26 | RFC for the IANA function was issued. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197201 |
| 1972 | 10 | 24 | International Network Working Group (INWG) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197206 |
| 1972 | 10 | ARPANET was demonstrated. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197203 | |
| 1972 | ARPANET was expanded to the region of the NATO area. (United Kingdom and Norway) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197207 | ||
| 1972 | Concept of "open network" was proposed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197204 | ||
| 1972 | ARPA was renamed to DARPA. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197209 | ||
| 1972 | SRI started InterNIC project. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197208 | ||
| 1973 | 9 | First document that addressed TCP/IP was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197302 | |
| 1974 | 10 | N-1 network operation started in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197401 | |
| 1974 | Service of TELENET, Public packet switched network was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197402 | ||
| 1976 | Diffie-Hellman key exchange theory was invented. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197601 | ||
| 1977 | RSA encryption scheme was announced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197702 | ||
| 1977 | U.S. government adopted DES as a standard encryption. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197701 | ||
| 1979 | Birth of UUCPNET | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#197901 | ||
| 1980 | Usenet was developed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#usenet | ||
| 1980 | Ethernet standard was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198001 | ||
| 1981 | 7 | BITNET operation started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198103 | |
| 1981 | 10 | Official operation of N-1 network started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198101 | |
| 1981 | CSNET (Computer Science Research Network) operation started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198102 | ||
| 1982 | 8 | SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) was published as RFC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198202 | |
| 1982 | Eunet (European UNIX network) operation started in Europe. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198201 | ||
| 1983 | 1 | 1 | TCP/IP was adopted as a standard protocol in the ARPANET. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198306 |
| 1983 | 1 | 1 | Birth of IPv4 address | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198301 |
| 1983 | 6 | 23 | Birth of the DNS (Domain Name System) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198303 |
| 1983 | 9 | Version 4.2 BSD was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198302 | |
| 1983 | 11 | Series of RFCs concerning DNS were published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198305 | |
| 1983 | Military department (MILNET) was separated from ARPANET. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198304 | ||
| 1984 | 5 | Birth of BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198401 | |
| 1984 | 10 | Operation of JUNET started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#junet | |
| 1984 | Operation of HEPNET-J started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198402 | ||
| 1985 | 1 | Usenet was connected to JUNET. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198501 | |
| 1985 | 3 | 15 | First .COM domain name (symbolics.com) was registered. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198502 |
| 1985 | 4 | 1 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) was denationalized. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198503 |
| 1985 | 4 | Operation of BITNETJP started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198504 | |
| 1985 | 7 | 24 | .UK domain name management was delegated to the United Kingdom from IANA. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198505 |
| 1985 | The first computer virus "Brian" appeared | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198506 | ||
| 1986 | 1 | 16-17 | IETF's first Meeting was held in San Diego, California, USA. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198602 |
| 1986 | 1 | First overseas connection started between CSNET and JUNET(University of Tokyo). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198601 | |
| 1986 | 8 | 5 | .JP domain name management was delegated to Japan from IANA. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198606 |
| 1986 | 11 | 5 | .DE domain name management was delegated to Germany from IANA. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198603 |
| 1986 | NSF started to rebuild CSNET to NSFNET as backbone network in the United States. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198604 | ||
| 1986 | DEC developed the first firewall. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198605 | ||
| 1987 | 1 | NACSIS (Science Information Network) operation started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198703 | |
| 1987 | 5 | InetClub was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198701 | |
| 1987 | 10 | Operation of international e-mail service of the University of Tokyo (CSNET) officially started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198702 | |
| 1988 | 4 | 19 | NTT started the world's first commercial ISDN service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198802 |
| 1988 | 8 | 2 | IP packet from NTT crossed Pacific Ocean for the first time. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198803 |
| 1988 | 11 | 2 | Morris worm was released and spread widely. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198804 |
| 1988 | 11 | CERT/CC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198805 | |
| 1988 | Operation of JAIN (Japan Academic Inter-university Network) started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198806 | ||
| 1988 | WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment project) was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198801 | ||
| 1988 | Paper on network authentication protocol "Kerberos" was publicized. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198807 | ||
| 1989 | 2 | "Network Address Coordination Committee" started the assignment of IP addresses. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198908 | |
| 1989 | 3 | Concept of HTML was proposed for the first time. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198902 | |
| 1989 | 4 | .JUNET domain name was migrated to .JP. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198903 | |
| 1989 | 7 | RFC for BGP(Border Gateway Protocol) was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198904 | |
| 1989 | 8 | Operation of TISN (Todai International Science Network) started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198901 | |
| 1989 | 11 | Japan's first computer virus appeared. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198905 | |
| 1989 | Operation of DNS started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198906 | ||
| 1989 | World's first commercial Internet Provider was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#198907 | ||
| 1990 | 2 | 28 | ARPANET was closed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199002 |
| 1990 | 6 | 22 | "Bind-admin" (DNS management group) was formed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199004 |
| 1990 | 6 | 22 | First "IP Meeting" was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199003 |
| 1990 | 10 | Japan Committee for Research Networks (JCRN) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199005 | |
| 1990 | Search engine "archie" was developed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199001 | ||
| 1990 | FIRST was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199006 | ||
| 1991 | 3 | Connection between WIDE and BITNET started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199101 | |
| 1991 | 6 | INET'91 was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199102 | |
| 1991 | 6 | Encryption software PGP was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199103 | |
| 1991 | 8 | 6 | World's first Web site was launched by CERN. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199104 |
| 1991 | 12 | 1 | JNIC was established. JP domain name registration and management service was transferred to JNIC from junet-admin. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199105 |
| 1991 | 12 | 1 | "Concerning Registration of JP Domain Names" stipulating registration rules was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199106 |
| 1991 | Development of Gopher started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199107 | ||
| 1991 | JEPG/IP(Japanese Engineering & Planning Group/IP) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199108 | ||
| 1992 | 1 | Internet Society (ISOC) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199201 | |
| 1992 | 2 | Inside NTT, pages using HTML were created and utilized. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199202 | |
| 1992 | 4 | RIPE NCC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199213 | |
| 1992 | 6 | 8 | IP address assignment and management services were transferred to JNIC from Address Coordination Committee. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199203 |
| 1992 | 6 | 15-18 | INET'92 was held in Kobe. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199204 |
| 1992 | 6 | Discussions towards establishment of APNIC started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199205 | |
| 1992 | 9 | 1 | WIDE, PC-VAN and NIFTY-Serve started the interconnection experiment. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199206 |
| 1992 | 9 | 30 | Japan's first Web site was launched by KEK. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199207 |
| 1992 | 10 | 18 | "JUNET Society" was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199208 |
| 1992 | 10 | Necessity of Regional Internet Registry was pointed out by IETF. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199209 | |
| 1992 | 11 | AT&T Jens started a commercial ISP services. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199210 | |
| 1992 | 12 | Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) started to provide commercial ISP services. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199212 | |
| 1992 | 12 | "Tokyo Regional Academic InterNetworking" (TRAIN) officially started its operation. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199211 | |
| 1992 | Some volunteers of JEPG/IP started support activities against reported computer security incidents. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199214 | ||
| 1993 | 1 | Researches and experiments aimed at foundation of APNIC were proposed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199303 | |
| 1993 | 4 | 1 | Started collecting dues from ISP members for stable operation of .JP domain name management. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199305 |
| 1993 | 4 | 9 | JNIC was reorganized as JPNIC, membership organization composed of network projects. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199304 |
| 1993 | 5 | 29 | First Steering Committee meeting was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199306 |
| 1993 | 6 | RFC1466(ISO-2022-JP) was issued. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199307 | |
| 1993 | 7 | HTML Version 1.0 was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199308 | |
| 1993 | 9 | 1 | APNIC pilot project was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199309 |
| 1993 | 9 | RFC for CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199310 | |
| 1993 | 11 | 1 | Pilot project for IP address agent services by JPNIC member ISPs began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199311 |
| 1993 | 11 | IIJ launched Internet connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199312 | |
| 1993 | 12 | 1 | JPNIC delegated by InterNIC to manage reverse DNS name server for JPNIC-assigned address blocks. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199314 |
| 1993 | 12 | 1 | Experimental project for geographic type domain name (example: EXAMPLE.SHINJUKU.TOKYO.JP) started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199313 |
| 1993 | 12 | NTT started the "What's New in Japan" service which became a pioneer of japanese portal site. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199315 | |
| 1993 | NCSA released Mosaic. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199316 | ||
| 1993 | InterNIC project was started by NSF. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199301 | ||
| 1993 | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications allowed commercial use of the Internet. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199302 | ||
| 1994 | 2 | NIFTY-Serve started Internet connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199402 | |
| 1994 | 2 | Birth of Yahoo! | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199401 | |
| 1994 | 3 | NSPIXP was installed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199403 | |
| 1994 | 4 | 15 | First issue of "JPNIC Newsletter" was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199405 |
| 1994 | 4 | 20 | WebCrawler went on line. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199406 |
| 1994 | 6 | Internet connection service was initiated by ASAHI Net. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199410 | |
| 1994 | 6 | Dial-up IP connection service was initiated by IIJ. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199409 | |
| 1994 | 6 | Global Online Japan (GOL) started Internet connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199411 | |
| 1994 | 6 | Fujitsu "InfoWeb" started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199408 | |
| 1994 | 6 | "100 School Project" was started by Ministry of Education and Ministry of International Trade and Industry. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199412 | |
| 1994 | 7 | 20 | JPNIC Web information service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199413 |
| 1994 | 7 | Amazon.com started its business. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199414 | |
| 1994 | 8 | 6 | Prime minister of Japan and his cabinet opened a website. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199415 |
| 1994 | 9 | First issue of "Internet Magazine". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199417 | |
| 1994 | 9 | Flat rate dial-up IP connection service was started by Bekkoame Internet. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199416 | |
| 1993 | 10 | Rimnet Corporation started to provide commercial ISP services. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199420 | |
| 1994 | 10 | "Mado-no-Mori" (Online Software download service) was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199422 | |
| 1994 | 10 | JUNET Society was dissolved. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199418 | |
| 1994 | 10 | W3C was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199419 | |
| 1994 | 10 | US White House opened its website. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199421 | |
| 1994 | 11 | "Searcher in Waseda" service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199423 | |
| 1994 | 12 | Netscape Navigator was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199424 | |
| 1995 | 1 | At the Kobe earthquake, the Internet was utilized to confirm safety of sufferers, etc. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199502 | |
| 1995 | 1 | First APNIC meeting was held in Bangkok, Thailand. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199501 | |
| 1995 | 2 | 1 | "mesh" Internet connection service was started by NEC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199503 |
| 1995 | 4 | "TokyoNet Internet Service" was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199504 | |
| 1995 | 5 | Advent of Java | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199505 | |
| 1995 | 6 | 1 | Application fees for JP domain names were introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199506 |
| 1995 | 6 | "Server List of Japan (Yahho)" service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199507 | |
| 1995 | 7 | 1 | PHS services were started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199509 |
| 1995 | 7 | 1 | Business delegation membership system for agent ISPs and billing system on IP address assignment via the agents were introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199508 |
| 1995 | 7 | 7 | "Computer Virus Prevention Guidelines" was noticed by METI. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199510 |
| 1995 | 7 | Amazon.com service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199511 | |
| 1995 | 8 | 24 | U.S. Microsoft Corporation released "Windows 95" and "Internet Explorer 1.0." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199516 |
| 1995 | 8 | 29 | "Information System Safety Standards" was enacted by METI. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199518 |
| 1995 | 8 | Internet Explorer was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199513 | |
| 1995 | 8 | NETPLAZA service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199512 | |
| 1995 | 8 | NTT started "Tere-hodai" service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199517 | |
| 1995 | 8 | "Asahi.com" was started by Asahi Shimbun. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199514 | |
| 1995 | 8 | Cnn.com was started by CNN in U.S. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199515 | |
| 1995 | 9 | 1 | Pilot project for sub-allocation (IP address assignments smaller than Class C) began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199519 |
| 1995 | 9 | 14 | InterNIC began charging for registration of .com/.net/.org. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199522 |
| 1995 | 9 | AuctionWeb (predecessor of eBay) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199523 | |
| 1995 | 9 | InfoNavigator service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199520 | |
| 1995 | 9 | NSFNET project was closed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199521 | |
| 1995 | 11 | 23 | Japanese version Windows 95 was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199525 |
| 1995 | 11 | "Searcher in Waseda" was renamed to "Senrigan (Clairvoyance)." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199524 | |
| 1995 | 11 | Sanyo software started "SANNET" Internet connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199526 | |
| 1995 | 12 | 1 | JNIC office was moved to Kanda-Surugadai (Mansui Bldg.). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199528 |
| 1995 | 12 | "NTT DIRECTORY" opening | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199530 | |
| 1995 | 12 | Specifications of IPv6 were determined. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199527 | |
| 1995 | 12 | Internet connection service"So-net" was launched by Sony. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199529 | |
| 1996 | 1 | 1 | Internet World Exposition 1996 was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199601 |
| 1996 | 4 | 1 | Full-scale operation for geographic type domain names began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199603 |
| 1996 | 4 | Yahoo! Japan was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199604 | |
| 1996 | 7 | 4 | Web-based free e-mail service "Hotmail" was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199606 |
| 1996 | 7 | 12 | NEC launched "BIGLOBE". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199605 |
| 1996 | 7 | 31 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 10,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199607 |
| 1996 | 7 | KrCERT/CC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199608 | |
| 1996 | 8 | 8 | "Unauthorized Computer Access Prevention Guidelines" was enacted by METI. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199609 |
| 1996 | 10 | 22 | IAHC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199612 |
| 1996 | 10 | "Computer Emergency Response Center" was set up in the Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199613 | |
| 1996 | 10 | NSPIXP-2 was installed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199611 | |
| 1996 | 10 | "Public network - private line - public network" connection was liberalized in domestic calls. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199610 | |
| 1996 | 11 | 5 | Registration of OR.JP domain name was released after temporary suspension. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199615 |
| 1996 | 11 | 6 | NE.JP domain name was introduced for network service providers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199614 |
| 1996 | 11 | First version of ICQ was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199616 | |
| 1996 | 11 | RFC2050 "Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines" was issued. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199602 | |
| 1996 | 12 | 10 | "Third level uniqueness rule" for JP domain names was abolished. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199617 |
| 1996 | 12 | 10 | Assignment of domain names that start with a number began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199618 |
| 1996 | 12 | 25 | Internet connection service "OCN" was started by NTT. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199619 |
| 1996 | IPv6 experimental network "6bone" was built. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199620 | ||
| 1997 | 2 | 13 | JANOG mailing list was set up. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199701 |
| 1997 | 2 | 28 | Plan document to establish new TLDs called "gTLD-MoU" was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199702 |
| 1997 | 2 | "Infoseek Japan" service was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199703 | |
| 1997 | 3 | 31 | JPNIC received official government recognition as incorporated non-profit organization. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199704 |
| 1997 | 3 | Goo service was started by NTT. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199705 | |
| 1997 | 4 | 1 | Start of the data communication services provided by PIAFS. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199706 |
| 1997 | 4 | "ODN" service was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199707 | |
| 1997 | 5 | 22 | Amendments of Law Concerning Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Etc. (NTTLaw) and the International Telegraph and Telephone Act (KDD Law) were adopted by the House of Representatives. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199708 |
| 1997 | 6 | 3 | APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199709 |
| 1997 | 7 | 25 | JANOG (Japan Network Operators' Group) was formed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199710 |
| 1997 | 7 | "AlterNIC" hijacked InterNIC's websites. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199712 | |
| 1997 | 7 | "DION" service was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199711 | |
| 1997 | 8 | 7 | AS number assignment services were transferred to JPNIC from JEPG/IP and assignment by JPNIC was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199713 |
| 1997 | 8 | 23 | M root server operation started in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199714 |
| 1997 | 8 | 6bone started operating under the IPv6 Testing Address Allocation. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199716 | |
| 1997 | 8 | International Internet phone service was liberalized to type II carriers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199715 | |
| 1997 | 9 | 15 | Google Search emerged in the Internet world. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199717 |
| 1997 | 9 | 24 | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game "Ultima Online" was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199718 |
| 1997 | 10 | NSPIXP-3 was installed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199719 | |
| 1997 | 11 | 7 | Symposium entitled "New Development of the Internet Domain Name System" was held in Tokyo. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199720 |
| 1997 | 12 | 1 | GR domain was introduced for non-corporate entities. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199721 |
| 1997 | 12 | 16 | First "Internet Week" was held in Yokohama. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199722 |
| 1997 | 12 | 22 | "Public network - private line - public network" connection was liberalized for international services. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199723 |
| 1997 | 12 | "Excite Japan" was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199724 | |
| 1997 | 12 | IP address management service was transferred to ARIN from InterNIC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199725 | |
| 1997 | APIA (Asia & Pacific Internet Association) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199726 | ||
| 1998 | 1 | U.S. government published Green Paper. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199801 | |
| 1998 | 2 | 9 | JPNIC office was moved to Kanda-Ogawamachi (Fuundo Bldg.). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199802 |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | "Rules for JP domain name registration" took effect. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199803 |
| 1998 | 4 | KAME Project was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199804 | |
| 1998 | 5 | Alta Vista started to support Japanese. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199805 | |
| 1998 | 6 | U.S. government published a White Paper. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199806 | |
| 1998 | 7 | 30 | International Telegraph and Telephone Act (KDD Law) as abolished. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199807 |
| 1998 | 8 | JPCERT/CC became a member of the FIRST. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199808 | |
| 1998 | 9 | Google Inc. was founded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199809 | |
| 1998 | 9 | TWCERT/CC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199810 | |
| 1998 | 10 | ICANN was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199812 | |
| 1998 | 10 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 50,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199811 | |
| 1998 | 10 | Lycos Japan was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199813 | |
| 1998 | 11 | 25 | U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (ICANN/DoC MoU). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199814 |
| 1999 | 2 | 1 | ED domain name was introduced for educational institutions. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199901 |
| 1999 | 2 | 22 | NTT DoCoMo released "i-mode" service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199902 |
| 1999 | 3 | Melissa virus spread around the world. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199903 | |
| 1999 | 4 | 30 | JPNIC began to work in earnest on the Internationalized Domain Name project. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199904 |
| 1999 | 5 | 21 | Leakage of Uji-shi resident registry database in Kyoto. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199905 |
| 1999 | 5 | 26 | JPNIC formally announced its positive commitment toward IPv6. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199906 |
| 1999 | 5 | BBS "2channel" was opened. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199908 | |
| 1999 | 5 | File-sharing service "Napstar" was put in service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199907 | |
| 1999 | 7 | 1 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT) was devided and reorganized. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199909 |
| 1999 | 7 | 14 | IANA allocated IPv6 addresses to RIRs for the first time. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199910 |
| 1999 | 8 | 13 | APNIC's first allocation of IPv6 addresses to WIDE project was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199911 |
| 1999 | 9 | 28 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 100,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199912 |
| 1999 | 9 | CNCERT/CC was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199913 | |
| 1999 | 10 | 24 | Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was enforced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199914 |
| 1999 | 11 | 4 | NSI and ICANN entered into registry agreement. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199915 |
| 1999 | 12 | 15 | PKI Forum was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#199916 |
| 1999 | 12 | 14-18 | JPNIC hosted "Third Internet Week." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#internetweek |
| 2000 | 1 | 20 | Agent Services for IPv6 Sub-TLA applications to APNIC began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200001 |
| 2000 | 1 | 24 | Web manipulation and falsification of Japanese ministries occured successively. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200003 |
| 2000 | 1 | 29 | IP address-related documents were fully revised. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200002 |
| 2000 | 2 | 13 | Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200005 |
| 2000 | 2 | 18 | U.S. Microsot released "Windows 2000" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200030 |
| 2000 | 2 | 29 | Information security office was installed in the Cabinet Secretariat. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200006 |
| 2000 | 2 | Various resource management functions of the IANA were transferred to ICANN. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200004 | |
| 2000 | 5 | "I LOVE YOU" virus spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200007 | |
| 2000 | 7 | 13 | JPNIC hosted ICANN Yokohama Meeting. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#icann-yokohama |
| 2000 | 7 | 13 | Distribution of beta version of Multilingualized Domain Name evaluation kit (mDNkit) began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200010 |
| 2000 | 7 | 18 | INET2000 was held in Yokohama supported by JPNIC as its main sponsor. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200011 |
| 2000 | 7 | Flat-rate ISDN communication service was launched by NTT East and NTT West. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200008 | |
| 2000 | 7 | Tokyo Metallic Communications Corp. was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200009 | |
| 2000 | 8 | 22 | JPNIC entered into agreement with the Industrial Property Arbitration Center (present Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center) for its service as JP domain name dispute resolution service provider. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200012 |
| 2000 | 9 | 21 | Japanese government announced the "e-Japan strategy". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200017 |
| 2000 | 9 | Google's search engine service was started in Japanese. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200016 | |
| 2000 | 9 | IIJ started IPv6 service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200015 | |
| 2000 | 9 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 200,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200014 | |
| 2000 | 9 | Distribution of prerelease version of Multilingualized Domain Name evaluation kit (mDNkit) began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200013 | |
| 2000 | 10 | 18 | Distribution of formal version of Multilingualized Domain Name evaluation kit (mDNkit) began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200021 |
| 2000 | 10 | 19 | "JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy" took effect. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200019 |
| 2000 | 10 | 19 | Transfer of JP domain names was liberalized in principle. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200020 |
| 2000 | 10 | KDDI Corporation was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200018 | |
| 2000 | 11 | 6 | Trial operation (Phase 1) of domain names in Japanese started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200022 |
| 2000 | 11 | 9 | Trial registration of International Domain Names (IDN) started in .com/.net/.org domain names. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200023 |
| 2000 | 11 | 16 | Introduction of 7 gTLDs was approved. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200024 |
| 2000 | 11 | Internet service provider "Livedoor" started to provide free Internet access. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200025 | |
| 2000 | 12 | 15 | National Information Security Promocion Council formulated "Special Action Plan related to Cyber-Terrorism Measures for Critical Infrastructure". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200026 |
| 2000 | 12 | 26 | NTT East and West launced full-scale FLET'S ADSL. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200027 |
| 2000 | 12 | 26 | Japan Registry Service Co., Ltd. (JPRS) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200028 |
| 2000 | 12 | 31 | Internet Expo "Internet Fair 2001 Japan" started as a year event. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200029 |
| 2001 | 1 | 6 | Basic Act on the Formation of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society (IT Basic Law) was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200103 |
| 2001 | 1 | 15 | "Wikipedia project" was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200102 |
| 2001 | 2 | 22 | JPRS started preliminary registration application period for General-use JP domain names. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200104 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 | USEN started FTTH services for endusers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200106 |
| 2001 | 3 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 300,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200107 | |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | IP Address Management Agent system was introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200109 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | Law on permitting to use electronic documents such as e-mail and FAX under certain circumstances was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200111 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | New membership structure was introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200108 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 | Act on Electronic Signatures and Certification Business was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200110 |
| 2001 | 4 | JPRS started General-use JP Domain Concurrent Registration Phase. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200105 | |
| 2001 | 5 | 7 | Trial operation (Phase 2) of domain names in Japanese started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200112 |
| 2001 | 5 | JPRS launched first-come-first-served basis registration application period for General-use JP domain names. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200113 | |
| 2001 | 6 | 14 | First issue of e-mail newsletter from the Koizumi Cabinet | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200117 |
| 2001 | 6 | NTT East and West announced full-scale provision of B-FLET's service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200115 | |
| 2001 | 6 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 400,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200114 | |
| 2001 | 6 | A power company in California was intruded illegaly to their power grid system. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200116 | |
| 2001 | 7 | 25 | First meeting of Policy Advisory Council, successor of Steering Committee, was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200120 |
| 2001 | 7 | Code Red worm spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200119 | |
| 2001 | 7 | Japanese Domain Name Association (JDNA) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200118 | |
| 2001 | 8 | 29 | DDI Pocket started the full flat-rate PHS communication service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200121 |
| 2001 | 8 | WEP attack methods was publicized. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200122 | |
| 2001 | 9 | 14 | "JPNIC News & Views," a new e-mail news letter service, was introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200125 |
| 2001 | 9 | 25 | JPNIC office was moved to Uchi-Kanda (Kokusai-Kougyou-Kanda Bldg.). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#office2 |
| 2001 | 9 | "Yahoo! BB" service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200123 | |
| 2001 | 9 | Nimda worm spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200124 | |
| 2001 | 10 | 1 | NTTdocomo started the world's first 3G service "FOMA" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200132 |
| 2001 | 10 | 23 | First ICANN Reporting Session was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#icann-report |
| 2001 | 10 | 25 | ICANN and auDA signed ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement for the first time. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200126 |
| 2001 | 11 | 8 | "Convention on Cybercrime" was adopted by more than 30 countries including Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200128 |
| 2001 | 11 | 9 | JPNIC signed Memorandum for the Transfer of Management and Administration of the .JP top-level domain. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200127 |
| 2001 | 11 | 16 | U.S. Microsoft released "Windows XP" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200133 |
| 2001 | 12 | 6 | First JPNIC Open Policy Meeting was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200129 |
| 2001 | 12 | 25 | The Act on Special Provisions to the Civil Code Concerning Electronic Consumer Contracts and Electronic Acceptance Notice was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200130 |
| 2002 | 1 | 28 | K-Opticom started FTTH service "eo Mega fiber for endusers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200131 |
| 2002 | 1 | 31 | JPNIC concluded an agreement with JPRS on transfer of management and administration of the .JP top-level domain. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200201 |
| 2002 | 1 | TERENA(The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) formulated Incident Object Description and Exchange Format Requirements(IODEF). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200202 | |
| 2002 | 2 | 27 | JPRS and ICANN entered into ".JP ccTLD Sponsorship Agreement." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200203 |
| 2002 | 3 | 29 | JPNIC entered into escrow agreement with JPRS on JP domain name registry data. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200205 |
| 2002 | 3 | 29 | JPNIC and JPRS entered again into agreement with the Industrial Property Arbitration Center (present Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center) to serve as JP domain name dispute resolution service provider. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200204 |
| 2002 | 3 | 29 | Tokyo Electric Power Co.,Inc. started FTTH service "TEPCO Hikari". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200206 |
| 2002 | 3 | 24-26 | APSIRC 2002 was held in Tokyo hosted by JPCERT/CC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200207 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | Rules on registration management for AD.JP domain names were changed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200210 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | JP domain name registration and management functions were transferred to JPRS. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200209 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | Data escrowing for JP domain name registry was initiated by JPNIC and JPRS. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200211 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | "CDMA2000 1X" was started by KDDI. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200208 |
| 2002 | 4 | JPNIC commenced activities relating to Internet security. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200212 | |
| 2002 | 5 | 27 | Act on the Limitation on Liability for Damages of Specified Telecommunications Service Providers and the Rights to Demand Disclosure of Identification Information of the Senders was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200215 |
| 2002 | 5 | DNS Quality Check Task Force (DNSQC-TF) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200213 | |
| 2002 | 6 | 3 | JPNIC was awarded MPHPT (Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications) Minister's Award for "Info-Communications Promotion Month 2002." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200216 |
| 2002 | 6 | RFC3261 for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) used mainly for IP telephones was issued | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200232 | |
| 2002 | 7 | 1 | New IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy was implemented. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200217 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1 | Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200218 |
| 2002 | 7 | 14-19 | 54th IETF meeting was held in Yokohama. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200219 |
| 2002 | 7 | Telecom-ISAC Japan was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200220 | |
| 2002 | 8 | 23 | JPIRR trial services were launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200221 |
| 2002 | 9 | 3-6 | 14th APNIC Open Policy Meeting was held in Kitakyushu. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200233 |
| 2002 | 9 | 27 | Assignment of telephone numbers starting with "050" for IP telephones started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200222 |
| 2002 | 10 | 1 | Registration of new second level "LG.JP" domain names for Japanese local governments was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200225 |
| 2002 | 10 | 21 | All the root servers were attacked simultaneously. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200223 |
| 2002 | 10 | 31 | LACNIC was approved by ICANN as the forth RIR (Regional Internet Registory). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200228 |
| 2002 | 10 | International domain names plug-in "i-Nav" for IE was distributed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200226 | |
| 2002 | 12 | 6 | Distribution of preview version of Internationalized Domain Name tool kit (idnkit) was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200224 |
| 2002 | 12 | 13 | "Next Generation Task Force" was created. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200229 |
| 2002 | 12 | 25 | STRINGPREP was published as RFC3454. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200230 |
| 2002 | National Police Agency started to provide the website "@Police". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200231 | ||
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | Management and Administration of .org domain name was transferred to PIR (Public Interest Registry). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200302 |
| 2003 | 1 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 500,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200301 | |
| 2003 | 1 | Slammer worm spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200303 | |
| 2003 | 2 | 14 | ACE Prefix for internationalized domain name was decided to "xn." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200304 |
| 2003 | 3 | 7 | RFCs for IDNA (RFC3490), NAMEPREP (RFC3491), and Punycode (RFC3492) were issued. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200306 |
| 2003 | 3 | 19 | Distribution of release version of Internationalized Domain Name tool kit (idnkit) began. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200307 |
| 2003 | 3 | JPCERT/CC was incorporated. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200308 | |
| 2003 | 5 | 12 | Members-only pages were added to the JPNIC Web site. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200311 |
| 2003 | 5 | 23 | Report from ENUM Study Group, supported by JPNIC as its secretariat, was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200312 |
| 2003 | 7 | 7 | First JPNIC, JPCERT/CC Security Seminar 2003 was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#security |
| 2003 | 7 | 10 | JPRS launched RFC-compliant Japanese JP domain name registration management service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200315 |
| 2003 | 7 | 10 | Trial operation (Phase 2) of domain names in Japanese was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200313 |
| 2003 | 7 | MySpace was created. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200314 | |
| 2003 | 8 | Blaster worm spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200318 | |
| 2003 | 8 | Skype was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200317 | |
| 2003 | 8 | WIDE project and JPRS began distributed operation of "JP" domain name servers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200316 | |
| 2003 | 9 | 17 | "ENUM Trial Japan," was formed, jointly supported by JPNIC and JPRS as its secretariat. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200319 |
| 2003 | 9 | US-CERT(United States Computer Emergency Response Team) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200320 | |
| 2003 | 10 | 24 | Number Resources Organization (NRO) was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200321 |
| 2003 | 11 | 28 | First .JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution seminar was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200322 |
| 2003 | 11 | Anti Phising Working Gtoup(APWG) held the first meeting in San Francisco. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200323 | |
| 2003 | 12 | 13 | U.S. VeriSign started registration and management services for RFC-compliant internationalized domain name. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200325 |
| 2003 | 12 | 10-12 | World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Geneva meeting was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200324 |
| 2003 | 12 | JPCERT/CC publicized Internet Scan Data Acquisition System(ISDAS). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200326 | |
| 2004 | 1 | 29 | "Debriefing Session on Internet Governance Issues at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)" was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200401 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | IP Anycast was introduced to JP DNS. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200404 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 | Birth of Facebook | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200402 |
| 2004 | 2 | 19 | JPRS started "Japanese JP Navi" service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200405 |
| 2004 | 2 | Online photo management and sharing application "Flickr" was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200406 | |
| 2004 | 2 | SNS "mixi" service was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200403 | |
| 2004 | 3 | 1 | ccNSO was established, and JPRS participated as member. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200409 |
| 2004 | 3 | 19 | 9 sponsored gTLDs selected in second round of applications were announced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200408 |
| 2004 | 3 | 19 | Provider independent address assignment service was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200407 |
| 2004 | 4 | 19 | RFC for IDN-admin was published as RFC3743. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200410 |
| 2004 | 4 | 19 | Password authentication for IP address management agents commenced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200411 |
| 2004 | 5 | 9 | P2P file-sharing software "Winny" developer was arrested (later judged as not guilty). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200412 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12 | First debriefing meeting of ENUM Trial Japan was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200413 |
| 2004 | 7 | 1 | Escrow system for JP domain name registry data was shifted to tripartite system. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200414 |
| 2004 | 7 | 7 | METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) announced a notice about vulnerability handlings. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200415 |
| 2004 | 7 | 20 | First AAAA record was added to the root zone. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200416 |
| 2004 | 7 | 27 | P2P telephone, Skype1.0, was announced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200417 |
| 2004 | 8 | 18 | IP address fee structure was revised. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200418 |
| 2004 | 9 | 1 | NTT East started telephone service using FTTH | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200427 |
| 2004 | 10 | 7 | MIC(Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) held the first meeting of "Study Group on handling of junk mails". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200421 |
| 2004 | 11 | 9 | Firefox1.0 was released. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200424 |
| 2004 | 11 | 11 | Second report of ENUM Trial Japan (ETJP) was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200422 |
| 2004 | 11 | 15 | New IP registry system was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200423 |
| 2004 | 12 | 1 | "VoIP/SIP Interoperability Task Force" was established. (joint secretariat JPNIC/MRI) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200425 |
| 2004 | 12 | 1 | Policy WG was set to discuss about IP address policy development in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200426 |
| 2005 | 1 | 26 | First IGTF Reporting Session was held. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200503 |
| 2005 | 1 | Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) was defined as RFC3987, as complement to the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200502 | |
| 2005 | 1 | EMOBILE Ltd. was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200501 | |
| 2005 | 2 | 15 | YouTube was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200505 |
| 2005 | 2 | 18-25 | APRICOT 2005 took place in Kyoto. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200504 |
| 2005 | 2 | Telecom-ISAC Japan was incorporated under the Japan Data Communications Association. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200507 | |
| 2005 | 2 | The number of registration of General-use JP domain name outnumbered Organizational/Geographic Type JP Domain Name. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200506 | |
| 2005 | 3 | 22 | Services changed according to WHOIS system separation from JPRS | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200508 |
| 2005 | 4 | 1 | Act on Utilization of telecommunications Technology in Document Preservation, etc. Conducted by Private Business Operators, etc. was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200511 |
| 2005 | 4 | 1 | Personal Information Protection Law was fully enforced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200510 |
| 2005 | 4 | 28 | Anti-Phishing Council was established | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200515 |
| 2005 | 4 | AfriNIC was approved by ICANN as the fifth RIR (Regional Internet Registry). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200512 | |
| 2005 | 4 | JPCERT/CC started early warning service based on traffic monitoring and vulnerability information. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200514 | |
| 2005 | 4 | Broadband television service "GyaO" was started by USEN. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200513 | |
| 2005 | 5 | 16 | Localized IPv6 address resource service was implemented. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200516 |
| 2005 | 6 | 17 | Shigeki Goto succeeded Jun Murai as president of JPNIC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200520 |
| 2005 | 6 | JPCERT/CC started Internet fixed-point observation visualization project "TSUBAME". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200518 | |
| 2005 | 6 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 700,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200517 | |
| 2005 | 8 | 5 | Jun Murai, former president of JPNIC, received Jon Postel Award 2005. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200521 |
| 2005 | 9 | 1 | Experimental authentication service using JPNIC resource service CA (certification authority) in IP address services was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200522 |
| 2005 | 9 | 13 | . SE registry introduced DNSSEC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200523 |
| 2005 | 11 | 16-18 | World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in Tunis. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200526 |
| 2006 | 1 | 24 | IPv6 allocation fees were partially reduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200601 |
| 2006 | 1 | 25 | Japan ENUM Trial using E.164 numbers beginning with Japanese country code 81 was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200602 |
| 2006 | 1 | 28 | Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department seized the first phising fraud in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200603 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | JPNIC started route6 object registration in JPIRR test service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200604 |
| 2006 | 2 | Russian Stock Exchange was suspended trading by the virus infection. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200605 | |
| 2006 | 3 | 31 | All BBS(Bulletin Board System) services provided by Nifty were closed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200607 |
| 2006 | 3 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 800,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200606 | |
| 2006 | 4 | 3 | JPNIC released report on "Recommendations on preparing for IPv4 address exhaustion." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200609 |
| 2006 | 4 | 8 | KAME Porject Activity Report was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200610 |
| 2006 | 4 | 27 | First IETF Forum-Japan was held. JPNIC supported it in the Executive Committee organization. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200612 |
| 2006 | 4 | 17-21 | Hosted by JPNIC, SIPit18 (18th SIP Interoperability Tests) was held for first time in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200611 |
| 2006 | 4 | JPRS shortened processing time for JP DNS update. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200608 | |
| 2006 | 6 | Twitter, Inc. was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200613 | |
| 2006 | 8 | 1 | JPIRR service was officially launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200615 |
| 2006 | 9 | 1 | Restriction that only one domain name can be registered by one organization was canceled in the service for .GO.JP domain name. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200616 |
| 2006 | 9 | 29 | U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN entered into "Joint Project agreement (JPA)." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200617 |
| 2006 | 10 | 5 | "Information Security Day"was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200618 |
| 2006 | 10 | 37590 | The first IGF meeting was held in Athens, Greece. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200619 |
| 2006 | 11 | Number of General-use JP domain name registrations exceeded 500,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200620 | |
| 2006 | 12 | 12 | Video-sharing site "Nico Nico Douga" was started as an experimental service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200622 |
| 2006 | 12 | 44689 | Internet Week celebrated 10th anniversary. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200621 |
| 2007 | 1 | The presence of WikiLeaks was unveiled for the first time. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200701 | |
| 2007 | 2 | 6 | All the root servers were attacked simultaneously again. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200702 |
| 2007 | 2 | 8 | Portable assignment for IPv6 was adopted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200718 |
| 2007 | 3 | 7 | 4-byte AS number assignment service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200703 |
| 2007 | 3 | 26 | IPv6-enabled Web and WHOIS service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200704 |
| 2007 | 3 | 28 | Japan CSIRT Association was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200707 |
| 2007 | 3 | "Ustream" service was launched. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200706 | |
| 2007 | 3 | "Procedure for recovering deleted domain name registration" for General-use JP domain names was introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200705 | |
| 2007 | 4 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 900,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200708 | |
| 2007 | 6 | 1 | Amended "JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (JP-DRP)" and "Rules for the JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy" went into effect. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200709 |
| 2007 | 6 | 15 | Formal statement on IPv4 address exhaustion in Internet Registries was issued. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200710 |
| 2007 | 9 | 29 | Issuing electronic certificates for IP address management business was officially started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200716 |
| 2007 | 12 | 7 | Research paper "Study Report on the IPv4 Address Space Exhaustion Issue (Phase I)" was published. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200713 |
| 2007 | 12 | 17 | Started a trial on authorizing routing information in JPIRR Service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200714 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 | IPv6 address was added to the 6 root servers. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200801 |
| 2008 | 3 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded a million. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200803 | |
| 2008 | 4 | 30 | JPNIC board of trustees expressed concern about "Legislation of restriction to youth's Internet use" by several diet members. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200804 |
| 2008 | 4 | Japanese version Twitter service was introduced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200805 | |
| 2008 | 5 | 21 | Started experiment on notifying route hijacks. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200806 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10 | Official version of Evernote released | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200814 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10 | Apple Inc. launched "App Store". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200807 |
| 2008 | 8 | 7 | JPCERT/CC published a research report on targeting attacks. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200809 |
| 2008 | 8 | A new DNS cash poisoning method "Kaminsky Attack" was revealed by U.S. security researcher Dan Kaminsky. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200808 | |
| 2008 | 9 | 5 | "Task Force on IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Japan" was formed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200810 |
| 2008 | 9 | 10 | "Anti-Phishing Guidelines" was published by Anti-Phishing Council. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200811 |
| 2008 | 9 | Dropbox official service launched | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200815 | |
| 2008 | 10 | "Android Market" was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200812 | |
| 2008 | 12 | "NHK on Demand" by Japan Broadcasting Corporation was commenced. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200813 | |
| 2009 | 2 | UQ WiMAX service started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200901 | |
| 2009 | 3 | 11 | Collection of untapped historical PI (Provider Independent) addresses was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200902 |
| 2009 | 3 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 1.1 million. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200903 | |
| 2009 | 5 | 18-22 | JPNIC and NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) hosted SIPit24 (24th SIP Interoperability Tests) held for the second time in Japan. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200904 |
| 2009 | 5 | Gumblar Attack spreaded. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200905 | |
| 2009 | 6 | 19 | JPCERT/CC published research tool of targeted email attacks for free. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200907 |
| 2009 | 6 | 28-Jul 3 | Japan's first FIRST Conference was held in Kyoto. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200908 |
| 2009 | 9 | 25 | JPNIC participated in Japan Internet Domain Name Council to introduce a new Internationalized Domain Name Country Code Top Level Domain (IDN ccTLD). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200910 |
| 2009 | 9 | 30 | U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN concluded "Affirmation of Commitments (AoC)." | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200911 |
| 2009 | 10 | 22 | U.S. Microsoft released "Windows 7" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200915 |
| 2009 | 11 | 16 | Accepting applications for the IDN ccTLD based on the Fast Track Process was started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200913 |
| 2009 | 11 | 44786 | 76th IETF meeting was held in Hiroshima. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200912 |
| 2009 | 11 | Conficker worm was pandemic. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#200914 | |
| 2010 | 3 | 23 | Confirmation on holders of historical AS numbers was completed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201001 |
| 2010 | 4 | 12 | ProPublica became the first net media to win the Pulitzer Prize | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201014 |
| 2010 | 4 | 19 | Authentication using JPNIC resource service CA for IP address management agents was officially started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201003 |
| 2010 | 5 | 5 | World's first IDN TLD was registered in the root zone. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201005 |
| 2010 | 6 | 23 | Evernote established Japanese subsidiary | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201015 |
| 2010 | 6 | 23 | JPCERT/CC was certified as Japan's first CVE(Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Numbering Authority(CNA). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201007 |
| 2010 | 7 | 15 | ICANN published the root zone trust anchor, that means root zone corresponds to the DNSSEC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201008 |
| 2010 | 7 | 26 | Distribution method of IPv6 address was simplified. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201009 |
| 2010 | 9 | 26 | Cyber attack on Iran's nuclear facilities occurred. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201011 |
| 2010 | 10 | 12 | Japan Internet Domain Name Council (JIDNC) appointed JPRS to the registry of Japanese IDN ccTLD. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201012 |
| 2010 | 12 | 10 | .Net registry supported user DNSSEC management. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201013 |
| 2010 | 12 | 24 | NTT Docomo started its first LTE service, "Xi" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201016 |
| 2011 | 1 | 16 | JPRS deployed DNSSEC in the JP Domain Name services. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201101 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 | IANA's free pool of IPv4 address space was depleted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201102 |
| 2011 | 2 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 1.2 million. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201103 | |
| 2011 | 3 | 31 | .Com registry supported user DNSSEC management. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201104 |
| 2011 | 4 | 15 | APNIC's IPv4 address pool was exhausted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201105 |
| 2011 | 4 | 15 | Japanese version of Dropbox released | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201116 |
| 2011 | 4 | 18 | KDDI started assignment of IPv6 addresses to all their customers at no charge in "au Hikari" service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201106 |
| 2011 | 4 | Large information outflow from the website of major online services game maker. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201107 | |
| 2011 | 6 | 1 | NTT East and NTT West started to provide IPv6 PPPoE connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201109 |
| 2011 | 6 | 8 | "World IPv6 Day" was held to test and promote public IPv6 deployment by ISOC. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201108 |
| 2011 | 6 | "LINE" service started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201117 | |
| 2011 | 7 | 21 | NTT East and NTT West started to provide IPv6 IPoE connection service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201111 |
| 2011 | 8 | 1 | IPv4 address transfer request process started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201112 |
| 2011 | 9 | Cyber attacks against several japanese famous defense companies. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201113 | |
| 2011 | 10 | Diet both Houses was recieved targeted attacks. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201114 | |
| 2011 | 11 | Prime minister of Japan and his cabinet opened official account on "Twitter" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201118 | |
| 2012 | 1 | 12 | ICANN launched the third application period for new gTLDs. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201201 |
| 2012 | 3 | 6 | Control Systems Security Center(CSSC) was established in accordance with the "Act on Technology Research Association". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201202 |
| 2012 | 3 | Malware "DNS Changer" spreaded in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201203 | |
| 2012 | 4 | 1 | New IP address and AS number fee structure was implemented. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201204 |
| 2012 | 4 | 16 | Huffington Post became the first blog to win the Pulitzer Prize | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201224 |
| 2012 | 4 | 23 | ISOC began to announce the "Internet Hall of Fame". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201205 |
| 2012 | 6 | 6 | "World IPv6 Launch" was started in order to enable IPv6 permanently on all participating sites. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201207 |
| 2012 | 6 | "Anonymous" declared protests to criminal penalties against illegal downloads. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201208 | |
| 2012 | 7 | 3 | Japan ratified the "Convention on Cybercrime". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201209 |
| 2012 | 7 | 11 | Cyber Attack Analysis Council was established. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201210 |
| 2012 | 7 | 16 | Application for priority registration on "Prefecture Type JP Domain Name" started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201211 |
| 2012 | 8 | 27 | JPNIC office was moved to Uchi-Kanda (Urbannet-Kanda Bldg.). | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201212 |
| 2012 | 8 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 1.3 million. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201213 | |
| 2012 | 9 | 14 | RIPE NCC's IPv4 address pool was exhausted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201214 |
| 2012 | 9 | 17 | Application for concurrent registration on "Prefecture Type JP Domain Name" started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201215 |
| 2012 | 10 | 25 | Amazon opened "Kindle Store" for Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201226 |
| 2012 | 10 | 26 | U.S. Microsot released "Windows 8" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201227 |
| 2012 | 10 | Remote control virus incident using CSRF attached wide attention. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201218 | |
| 2012 | 10 | Prime minister of Japan and his cabinet opened an official account on "LINE" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201225 | |
| 2012 | 11 | 19 | Application for general registration on "Prefecture Type JP Domain Name" started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201219 |
| 2013 | 1 | The Prime Minister's Office opend the official page on "Facebook" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201311 | |
| 2013 | 3 | Number of "Prefecture Type JP Domain Name"topped 10,000. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201301 | |
| 2013 | 4 | 1 | JPNIC revised the fee structure for IP addresses. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201302 |
| 2013 | 4 | 1 | JPNIC's juridical personality by legal regulation changed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201303 |
| 2013 | 4 | 19 | Revised Public Offices Election Act, that permits Internet election campaigns, was enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201304 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3 | JPNIC adopted Inter-Registry Transfer Policy and started international transfer of IP address blocks. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201307 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7 | 10 internet related organizations issued "Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201309 |
| 2013 | 10 | 23 | First four applications for gTLDs accepted in 2012 were delegated | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201310 |
| 2013 | 11 | 13 | Invitations from the public for "Google Glass Explorer Program" started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201312 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | Revised Copyright Act enacted | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201401 |
| 2014 | 1 | 21 | The National Diet Library launched digitized material transmission service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201402 |
| 2014 | 1 | 29 | ".Tokyo" and ".Nagoya" were delegated as new geographic gTLD | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201403 |
| 2014 | 2 | 19 | 11 internet related organizations published "I* Leaders Cooperation Meeting, Santa Monica, 14 February 2014" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201405 |
| 2014 | 2 | 21 | "Internet White Paper ARCHIVES" page opened | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201406 |
| 2014 | 2 | 28 | "Mt. Gox", a bitcoin exchange, went bankrupt | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201407 |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | ".Okinawa" was delegated as new geographic gTLD | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201408 |
| 2014 | 3 | 7 | IRR/RPKI Survey Activity Report published | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201410 |
| 2014 | 3 | 11 | ".Dnp" was delegated as the first brand gTLD in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201411 |
| 2014 | 3 | 17 | The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administratin announced its intention to transfer the Internet DNS function | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201412 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3 | ".Ryukyu" and ".Yokohama" were delegated as new geographic gTLD | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201414 |
| 2014 | 4 | 9 | The late Dr. Masaki HIRABARU was listed in the ISOC Hall of Fame | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201415 |
| 2014 | 4 | 17 | Restriction of "one registration for one organization" for organizational-type and geographic-type JP domain names relaxed | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201416 |
| 2014 | 4 | 23-24 | NETmundial metting held | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201417 |
| 2014 | 6 | 1 | NTTdocomo launched "Kake-hodai" a fully flat rate telephone service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201418 |
| 2014 | 6 | 9 | Report on "Name Collision problem" published | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201420 |
| 2014 | 6 | 12 | Revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Act enacted | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201421 |
| 2014 | 6 | 18 | "The Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ)" established | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201422 |
| 2014 | 6 | 24 | NTT docomo launched the first VoLTE service in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201423 |
| 2014 | 7 | 1 | AS number transfer system started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201424 |
| 2014 | 7 | 1 | Re-allocation of IPv4 address returned to JPNIC started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201425 |
| 2014 | 8 | 18 | Registrant name non-disclosing function introduced to general-use and prefeture-type JP domains | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201427 |
| 2014 | 10 | 1 | Trial offer of ROA public cache server started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201428 |
| 2014 | 10 | 28 | W3C published HTML5 as a recommendation | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201429 |
| 2014 | 11 | 1 | Registratioin recovery service introduced to organizational-type and geographic-type JP domain names | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201430 |
| 2014 | 11 | 3 | Japanese TLD introduced to prefecture-type JP comain names | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201431 |
| 2014 | 11 | 17 | "History of Internet Resources Management in Japan" published | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201432 |
| 2014 | 12 | 13 | ".Osaka" was delegated as new geographic gTLD | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201433 |
| 2015 | 1 | 28 | ".Kyoto" was delegated as new geographic gTLD | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201502 |
| 2015 | 2 | 24-3.6 | APRICOT-APAN 2015 held | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201507 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | Trial offer of RPKI system started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201508 |
| 2015 | 3 | 18 | Japanese Generation Panel (JGP) established | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201510 |
| 2015 | 9 | 30 | SORACOM launched IoT platform service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201539 |
| 2015 | 10 | Number of JP domain name registrations exceeded 1.4 million. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201532 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 9-15 | Google’s AlphaGo won against the top professional human Go player | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201604 |
| 2016 | 3 | 17 | Law to ban drones in certain areas was implemented | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201605 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | FinTech Center was established within the Bank of Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201607 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12 | Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi passed away | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201608 |
| 2016 | 7 | 6 | Pokémon Go was released in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201612 |
| 2016 | 8 | 5 | The .jp top-level domain celebrated its 30th anniversary | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201619 |
| 2016 | 9 | 5 | LINE Mobile service was launched | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201620 |
| 2016 | 10 | 1 | Stewardship of IANA functions transition from the US government to global Internet community | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201621 |
| 2016 | 10 | 20 | Adding IPv6 address to G route server | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201622 |
| 2016 | 10 | 21 | Large-scale DDoS attack on Dyn | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201623 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7 | Massive closures of major curation sites | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201625 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | Allocation of "020" as a dedicated M2M number started | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201701 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | Revised Stalking Control Law came into effect | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201702 |
| 2017 | 1 | Many attacks on websites using WordPress | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201703 | |
| 2017 | 2 | 22 | Dentsu announced domestic Internet advertising media spending exceeded 1 trillion yen for the first time in 2016 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201706 |
| 2017 | 2 | 23 | Google and CWI announced success in SHA-1 Hash Value Collision | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201707 |
| 2017 | 3 | A series of attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201710 | |
| 2017 | 4 | 1 | Revised law on Funds Settlement came into effect | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201711 |
| 2017 | 4 | 7 | Google launched fact checking worldwide on search services | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201712 |
| 2017 | 4 | Rapid growth of "Mastodon" mini-blog accounts | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201714 | |
| 2017 | 5 | 16 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced the start of a comprehensive 5G demonstration test | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201717 |
| 2017 | 5 | 30 | Enforcement of the Revised Personal Information Protection Law | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201718 |
| 2017 | 5 | WannaCry caused massive cyber attack | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201719 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 1-2 | Internet Week Showcase held for the first time in Nagoya | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201720 |
| 2017 | 6 | 26 | National Police Agency opened "Cyber Police Agency" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201722 |
| 2017 | 6 | 27 | ICANN Kobe meeting to be held in March 2019 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201723 |
| 2017 | 7 | 1 | Revision of JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201726 |
| 2017 | 8 | 25 | Misconfigured routing information caused large-scale route disruptions in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201728 |
| 2017 | 9 | 5 | MIC announced vulnerability survey on IoT devices | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201731 |
| 2017 | 9 | 18 | JPNIC President Shigeki Goto inducted into the ISOC Internet Hall of Fame | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201732 |
| 2017 | 9 | 20 | Temporary suspension of accepting IPv4 address transfers from the last /8 block | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201733 |
| 2017 | 9 | 27 | ICANN announced postponement of Root Zone KSK Rollover implementation | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201734 |
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | MIC announced "Comprehensive Measures for IoT Security". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201737 |
| 2017 | 10 | 6 | Smart speaker "Google Home" available in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201738 |
| 2017 | 10 | 16 | Multiple vulnerabilities called "KRACKs" discovered in WPA2 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201739 |
| 2017 | 10 | 26 | JPCERT/CC released special website for ransomware countermeasures | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201741 |
| 2017 | 10 | 30 | Timemap released TIMEMAP, a search engine that outputs results in a chronological format. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201743 |
| 2017 | 11 | 15 | Amazon Echo smart speaker available in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201749 |
| 2017 | 11 | 16 | Impress publishes iNTERNET magazine Reboot | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201750 |
| 2017 | 11 | 17 | Japanese version of "Slack" released | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201751 |
| 2017 | 12 | 14 | FCC repealed network neutrality rules | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201754 |
| 2017 | 12 | Government-sponsored cyber event's domain name re-registered as adult ad site | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201756 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 11 | Sony started selling the new "aibo". | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201801 |
| 2018 | 1 | 26 | Coincheck lost 58 billion yen worth of virtual currency, including NEM | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201802 |
| 2018 | 1 | 29 | KDDI launched "KDDI IoTconnect LPWA" communication service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201803 |
| 2018 | 1 | Mining malware exploded in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201805 | |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | Number of JP domain name registrations surpassed 1.5 million | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201806 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | University of Tokyo established Virtual Reality Research and Education Center | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201807 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | Malware using Intel CPU's Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerability discovered | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201808 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | Docomo and Panasonic started loint LPWA demonstration experiment | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201809 |
| 2018 | 3 | 14 | Establishment of the NGN IPoE Council | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201810 |
| 2018 | 3 | 30 | Google announced the end of the shortened URL service by goo.gl | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201811 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1 | APNIC and CloudFlare launched free DNS cache server "1.1.1.1" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201812 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 | Up to 87 million users' information leaked on Facebook | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201813 |
| 2018 | 4 | 13 | Government requested ISPs to block pirate sites such as Manga Village | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201814 |
| 2018 | 4 | 23 | Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) established | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201815 |
| 2018 | 4 | 25 | The world's largest DDoS service, webstresser.org, exposed | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201816 |
| 2018 | 4 | 26 | Google started to sell Google Wifi in Japan, a Wi-Fi Router with mesh Wi-Fi support | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201817 |
| 2018 | 5 | 17 | ICANN approved provisional specifications for gTLD registration data to comply with EU's GDPR | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201818 |
| 2018 | 5 | 18 | Nihon Keizai Shimbun became first Japanese newspaper to offer subscriptions on amazon.co.jp as a test sale | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201819 |
| 2018 | 5 | 25 | GDPR took effect in the EU | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201820 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15 | Housing Accommodation Business Law (New Minpaku Law) enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201822 |
| 2018 | 6 | 19 | First Server's "Zenlogic" Hosting Experiences Massive Outage | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201823 |
| 2018 | 6 | 27 | NTT Communications launched "OCN v6 Alpha", an IPv6 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201824 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 | Moscow Internet Exchange and JPIRR started mirroring | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201825 |
| 2018 | 7 | 18 | EU ordered Google to pay 570 billion yen in fines | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201826 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2 | Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and JPCERT/CC warned of suspicious emails demanding virtual currency | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201827 |
| 2018 | 8 | 20 | Blockchain-based Internet voting demonstration experiment in Tsukuba City | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201828 |
| 2018 | 9 | 3 | DTI launched IPv6 IPoE Connection Service Using v6 Plus | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201829 |
| 2018 | 9 | 18 | "Excite Mail" terminated its service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201830 |
| 2018 | 9 | 19 | Half of Commissioners opposed Website Blocking Legislation | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201831 |
| 2018 | 10 | 11 | Root zone KSK rollover completed | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201832 |
| 2018 | 11 | 14 | Google launched "YouTube Music" in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201833 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6 | Large-scale communication failure at Softbank | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201834 |
| 2018 | 12 | 14 | Leakage of 700,000 cases of personal information, including individual number, from a contractor of the National Tax Agency. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201835 |
| 2018 | 12 | 30 | The new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, TPP11, issued. Copyright protection period extended to 70 years after death. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201836 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | Revised Copyright Law enacted. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201901 |
| 2019 | 1 | 18 | Huge leaked file of 2.7 billion items released on the Dark Web. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201902 |
| 2019 | 2 | 13 | JPNIC Advisor, Professor Jun Murai, received the Legion of Honor | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201903 |
| 2019 | 2 | 20 | NICT and ISPs started "NOTICE", vulnerability scanning for IoT devices | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201904 |
| 2019 | 2 | 28 | JPNIC Board member Yoshinobu Matsuzaki elected as APNIC EC (Executive Director) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201905 |
| 2019 | 2 | CERN released App reproducing the WorldWideWeb, World first browser | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201906 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 9 | ICANN Kobe Conference held for the second time in 19 Years in Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201907 |
| 2019 | 3 | 12 | Celebrating 30 years since the birth of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee unveils his proposal for the future | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201908 |
| 2019 | 3 | 28 | Masanori Maemura re-elected to ICANN Board of Directors | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201909 |
| 2019 | 3 | 31 | "Geocities" closed. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201910 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | End of Google+ | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201911 |
| 2019 | 4 | 9 | Adobe Shockwave support ended | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201912 |
| 2019 | 4 | 16 | Internet Media Association (JIMA) established | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201913 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 | World's first smartphone-enabled 5G service offered simultaneously in many countries | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201914 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | The new era "Reiwa" started. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201915 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 | Google Cloud outage temporarily disabled YouTube, Google Mail and other services in eastern U.S. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201917 |
| 2019 | 6 | 7 | Revised Copyright Law took effect in EU | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201918 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14 | Law to prevent unauthorized resale of tickets went into effect. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201919 |
| 2019 | 6 | 18 | "circleksunkus.jp" sold for over 60 million yen. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201920 |
| 2019 | 6 | 18 | Facebook launched its own virtual currency. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201921 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2 | SoftBank provided 5G pre-service at Fuji Rock | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201922 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2 | Unauthorized access damage at 7pay | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201923 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | New allocation of IPv4 addresses from IPv4 address space already returned to JPNIC ended | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201924 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9 | Google Chrome rolled out annoying ad blocker worldwide | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201925 |
| 2019 | 7 | 11 | French Senate approved introduction of digital taxation in anticipation of GAFA | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201926 |
| 2019 | 7 | 29 | Largest ever leak of over 100 million customers' information at US financial giant Capital One | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201927 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9 | Huawei announced its own OS, HarmonyOS | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201928 |
| 2019 | 8 | 23 | Large-scale AWS outage occurred | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201929 |
| 2019 | 8 | 25 | The Library of Congress officially launched "Japan Search" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201930 |
| 2019 | 8 | 30 | MIC released mesures on "Building Sustainable Local Communities in the Age of Society 5.0" as key mesures in 2020 | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201931 |
| 2019 | 9 | 20 | Docomo launched 5G pre-service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201932 |
| 2019 | 9 | 24 | Former operator of "Manga-mura" deported to Japan | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201933 |
| 2019 | 9 | 25 | Cloudflare launched Warp VPN service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201934 |
| 2019 | 9 | 26 | Amazon's order history leaked | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201935 |
| 2019 | 9 | 30 | The late Suguru Yamaguchi, former JPNIC board member, inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201936 |
| 2019 | 10 | 5 | PayPay service launched | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201937 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8 | NICT succeeded in the world's first 1 petabit per second switching experiment | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201938 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1 | Russia enacted Internet sovereignty law | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201939 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2 | KDDI launched 5G pre-service for drone racing | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201940 |
| 2019 | 11 | 6 | Former Trend Micro employee illegally took customer information | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201941 |
| 2019 | 11 | 13 | ISOC announced sale of .org | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201942 |
| 2019 | 11 | 26 | Japan Federation of IT Organizations established Cyber Security Committee | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#201943 |
| 2020 | 1 | 15 | MS released Chromium-based new "Microsoft Edge" | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202002 |
| 2020 | 1 | 30 | Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department observed increased access of Mirai variants targeting IoT devices | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202003 |
| 2020 | 1 | 31 | Unauthorized access to NEC's defense business unit | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202004 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | Britain left the European Union | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202005 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 | Defense Ministry announced unauthorized access to Kobe Steel and Pasco | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202006 |
| 2020 | 2 | 11 | Sprint and T-Mobile merger approved | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202007 |
| 2020 | 2 | 12 | GMO opened ".gmo" exclusively for IoT devices | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202008 |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 | Dentsu Says Japan's Internet Ad Spending Surpasses TV | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202010 |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 | WHO declared pandemic of new coronavirus infection | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202011 |
| 2020 | 3 | 25 | NTT Docomo launched 5G service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202012 |
| 2020 | 3 | 26 | KDDI launched 5G service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202013 |
| 2020 | 3 | 27 | Softbank launched 5G service | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202014 |
| 2020 | 4 | 7 | Emergency declaration issued under the Act on Special Measures against Pandemic Influenza. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202015 |
| 2020 | 4 | 8 | Rakuten Mobile launched its mobile carrier service. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202016 |
| 2020 | 4 | 21 | Information sharing meeting on ISOC's plan to sell Public Interest Registry (PIR) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202017 |
| 2020 | 4 | 30 | ICANN disapproved ISOC's proposed sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202018 |
| 2020 | 5 | 1 | Amended Funds Settlement Act and Amended Financial Instruments and Exchange Act took effect | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202019 |
| 2020 | 5 | 22 | Apple and Google released new coronavirus intense contact notification API | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202020 |
| 2020 | 6 | 5 | Parliament passed revised Copyright Act, including measures against Internet piracy | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202021 |
| 2020 | 7 | Massive Twitter hijacking occurred | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202022 | |
| 2020 | 7 | "Facebook Messenger" hijacking spread | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202023 | |
| 2020 | 9 | 4 | Emotet infection spreaded | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202024 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8 | Unauthorized use of docomo account service uncovered | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202025 |
| 2020 | 9 | 14 | JP-DRP arbitration case study report released | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202026 |
| 2020 | 9 | 16 | 100 million yen leaked due to unauthorized access at SBI Securities | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202027 |
| 2020 | 9 | 23 | JP domain name dispute resolution policy (JP-DRP) 20th anniversary symposium held | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202028 |
| 2020 | 9 | 23 | NTT DOCOMO launched 5G service using millimeter wave | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202029 |
| 2020 | 9 | 29 | NTT announced that NTT DOCOMO becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202030 |
| 2020 | 10 | 1 | Revised "JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and Procedural Rules for JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy" came into effect. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202031 |
| 2020 | 10 | 1 | Stock trading halted for the day due to a failure of the Tokyo Stock Exchange's "arrowhead" system. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202032 |
| 2020 | 11 | 3 | JPNIC President Shigeki Goto (Professor Emeritus, Waseda University) awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette. | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202033 |
| 2020 | 11 | 17 | Internet Week 2020 held online | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202034 |
| 2020 | 12 | 31 | Adobe Flash support ended | https://www.nic.ad.jp/timeline/en/#202035 |