The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) Cyber Kyoto Research Institute, which is the only management support operator (registry) of the geographical name top-level domain “.kyoto” with support from Kyoto Prefecture, June 1, 2015, Kyoto Prefecture Opened at the Keihanna Open Innovation Center (KICK), an academic research facility in Seika Town and Kizugawa City.In addition to the management and research of ".kyoto", we will promote efforts to build "Open University Kyoto", which will promote collaborative education with universities around the world using e-learning.
KCG groups such as The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics and Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG) commemorate the establishment of Cyber Kyoto Research Laboratories. We are planning to hold “Investigating Cello”.
In September 2014, the Cyber Kyoto Research Institute received the first certification from the prefectural government as the center's research utilization plan.On May 26, 2015, Kyoto Institute of Information Science and Technology and Kyoto Prefecture signed a comprehensive agreement on collaboration and cooperation, which includes the use of ".kyoto" to strengthen the dissemination of the Kyoto brand.
In operating ".kyoto", Cyber Kyoto Institute has recruited founding members as part of the Founders Program, a priority registration program (up to 20 domain names can be reserved and acquired in advance), and on June 1, 2015, the first registration, "lasenke.kyoto" by Urasenke, a Kyoto-based tea ceremony company, made its debut in cyberspace, and a series of corporate organizations based in Kyoto are preparing to register in the future.The Founders Program runs through November 30 of this year.The subsequent sales program is based on the regulations of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a U.S. non-profit organization that manages domain names used on the Internet, with the following schedule: "Sunrise I" (for character strings registered as trademarks using alphanumeric characters and hyphens) from October, priority registration for public and utility organizations and "Sunrise II" (for character strings registered as trademarks) from December, "Landrush" (at premium prices) from January 2016, and general registration from February.