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Yodobashi link in HN!? Anyway, here's Sharp product page found by model number EP-C251: https://smj.jp.sharp/bs/eposter/lineup/epc251.html

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Notably, from an announcement link in the comments (https://global.sharp/corporate/news/230809-a.html), the expected production of the 25.3 inch model is _only 500 a month_.

Much better link for English speakers, thanks!

Is it common in Japan to use a .sharp TLD vs. .com/.jp?

.sharp is a brand TLD like .apple or .ford

One cool trick is to learn about a TDL is to visit nic.TLD to get info about the domain, for example https://nic.sharp/

Is nic.TLD a required information page?

Because I've found some that don't have it, like https://nic.amazon

Not ideal or informative but it exists - http://nic.amazon/

I am not sure, at minimum it seems to be standard practice. It stands for network information center, and there is a lot of variation when it comes to information provided and tools they offer.

For that amazon link, I think the underlying website is just flakey. I was able to get the page to load once, here is an archive link of it working https://web.archive.org/web/20230616013716/https://nic.amazo...

Running http://whois.nic.$GTLD/ is required, but I believe it's fine to have nothing on nic.$GTLD directly.

Some examples: https://whois.nic.sharp http://whois.nic.amazon https://whois.nic.horse https://whois.nic.google https://whois.nic.trust

See the gTLD guidebook here: https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/guidebook-ful...

Section 4.1 on page 268 of the PDF covers whois.nic.$GTLD

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like .au does not comply and .com.au has a domain squatter.

These only apply to the new generic TLDs.

Country codes can basically do whatever they want.

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