February 16, 2018 Study on Setting Status of Outbound Domain Authentication Technology in JP Domain Names

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is promoting the introduction of outbound domain authentication technology as a technical countermeasure against so-called “spoofing mail.”

Recently, MIC has decided to start investigating the setting status of outbound domain authentication technology in the .jp domain, which is the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Japan), used for email addresses, and announce the results of the investigation.

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