The WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) is an

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project in Japan founded by

Keio University , abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Rangaku, Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becomi ...

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, and The University of Tokyo that was started in 1985. It runs a major backbone of the Japanese internet and used to run the .jp Top Level Domain (TLD). WIDE aims to integrate academia and industry in a single group that overcomes lines between organizations as an autonomous force utilizing new technologies for a better society. This mission has guided the actions of the project for two decades and will continue to be a cornerstone of its activities. The president is Jun Murai, a professor of Keio University SFC. It has operated the M

root nameserver A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests by returning a list of the authoritative name servers for ...

since 1997. It has been a core proponent of

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research ( KAME project), development and deployment in Japan. The project was started as the WIDE Research Group in 1985. The WIDE project also conducted a study about the instability of the intra-domain routing which was presented on the Routing Workgroup of the

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-49 meeting in 2004

DNS operation

The WIDE Project run 23 DNS sites as of 20th May 2025. Their

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is 202.12.27.33, and their

is 2001:dc3::35.

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External links

Project website
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DNS operation

See also

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