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Press Release
5 February 2026
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)

Yuri Takamatsu of JPRS Reappointed to APTLD Board of Directors

Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President Koki Higashida) today announced that Yuri Takamatsu, International Affairs Leader of JPRS, has been reappointed to the board of directors of the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD), the organization for Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD[*1]) registries in the Asia Pacific region. Takamatsu will serve as a director on the board for two years until the Annual General Meeting in 2028.

Since its establishment in 1998, APTLD has played an important role in the development of ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific region by working as a forum for information exchange regarding domain names and registry operations and by making contributions to Internet-related organizations including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN[*2]). Currently, 47 ccTLD registries are ordinary members and 30 domain-name related organizations are associate members.

JPRS has been a member of APTLD since its establishment and, in cooperation with other APTLD members, has contributed to key APTLD achievements, including helping to develop proposals for introducing Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)[*3] to TLD part and supporting their worldwide deployment.

Since 2012, she has contributed to the association's activities through her presentations at meetings and participation in discussions. After joining the APTLD Board of Directors in 2022, she has been involved in planning sessions and served as a session moderator and facilitator at APTLD meetings, as well as actively participated in discussions at board meetings.

Reappointing Takamatsu as a director of the board of APTLD is regarded as an affirmation for her contributions to APTLD in the past.

As a company that supports the network infrastructure, JPRS will continue to make further efforts to contribute more to the Internet community, not only in Japan and the Asia Pacific region but throughout the rest of the world.

About JPRS

JPRS is a leading service provider for management and registration of domain names and for the domain name system (DNS) operations. The company was established on 26 December 2000. As a company dedicated to maintaining the Internet infrastructure of Japan, JPRS operates under a corporate philosophy which aims to contribute to the expansion of the Internet and to building a better future for people and society.

Glossary

*1.ccTLD
Acronym for country code Top Level Domain.
Top level domain allocated to each country or region. The .jp domain that represents Japan is one such ccTLD.

*2.ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
It is the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 in the US to coordinate Internet infrastructure resources including domain names, IP addresses, protocols and root servers.

*3.Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
Domain names that include non-alphanumeric characters, are called "Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)". IDNs can contain various scripts in the world, such as Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Cyrillic, Arabic.

References

  1. APTLD Board
    https://aptld.org/about/board/

  2. APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association)
    https://aptld.org/

  3. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
    https://www.icann.org/

  4. Yuri Takamatsu of JPRS Reappointed to APTLD Board of Directors
    https://jprs.co.jp/en/press/2024/240228.html
    (Press Release on 28 February 2024)

Press Contacts

Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS)
TEL: +81-3-5215-8451 FAX: +81-3-5215-8452
E-mail: press@jprs.co.jp
https://jprs.co.jp/en/
Chiyoda First Bldg. East, 3-8-1 Nishi-Kanda
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0065, Japan

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