Japan Registry
| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Founder(s): | Darshaun Nadeau |
| Headquarters: | 4F Asahi Bldg.1-22-24 Hyakunin-cho Shinjuku-kuTokyo, 169-0073 Japan. |
| Country: | Japan |
| Employees: | 11-50 |
| Website: | Japan Registry |
| Key People | |
| Darshaun Nadeau, President Steve Karnas, Chief Operating Officer, Representative Director | |
Solis (Japan Registry) is leading ICANN accredited Japanese registrar for .jp and .co.jp domain names. It was awarded full registrar accredidation by ICANN back in 2004. Because of that it is fully certified to sell gTLDs.[1]
Solis distributes domain names to Internet service providers, hosting companies, and corporations in Japan, as well as .JP and .CO.JP domains other ICANN accredited registrars around the world who resell them.[2]
Services
Solis provides variety of products including SSL certificates, Search Engine Optimization Software, URL forwarding and DNS services in addition to a variety of domain extensions.[3] Solis supports a good number of gTLDs which inlude .aero .asia .biz .cat .com .coop .info .jobs .mobi .museum .name .net .org .pro .tel .travel [4]
GMO
Solis was acquired by GMO Internet, Inc in July, 2005.[5] GMO is Japan's leading online infrastructure providing company.
Partnerships
Solis has partnershiped with Tucows and NIFTY corporations. Tucows is the largest wholesale ICANN accredited registrar in the world. NIFTY corporation is the largest Internet Service Provider in Japan.[6][7]