Kyoto Information Graduate University Cyber-Kyoto Research Laboratories will start selling to the general public as a “land rush” (priority registration) sales program for the top name domain “.kyoto” from January 4th.Sales of ".kyoto" are limited to those living in Kyoto Prefecture.
In "Land Rush", the general public can purchase a string of their choice at a premium price.After this, from February 10, “general registration” with general prices will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
Kyoto Information Graduate University Cyber-Kyoto Institute is the only management support operator (registry) of “.kyoto” with the only support from Kyoto Prefecture.“.Kyoto” was born in Cyberspace in June this year, and it is already being used by members of the founding community who participated in the “Founders Program” and registered trademarks of “Sunrise”.The “.kyoto” sales program is based on the rules of the US non-profit organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) that manages domains used on the Internet.
.kyoto Kyoto domain
http://nic.kyoto/