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About Sakura Internet

Very few hosting companies still trading were founded before the commercial web settled its basic conventions. Sakura Internet is one of them, which gives its customer base an unusual depth. Domains registered in the earliest years of Japanese commercial hosting sit alongside accounts opened last month, on the same infrastructure, under the same brand.

Sakura Internet started in 1996 and grew outward into general infrastructure, offering shared hosting, virtual servers, dedicated machines, colocation and cloud services under Commercial terms from data centres inside Japan. Domestic operation counts for more in this market than in most. Japanese buyers frequently need data residency, documentation and support in Japanese, and local billing, and a provider like Sakura Internet Inc. holds its position largely because global platforms serve those requirements poorly.

As of September 2026 we detect the provider behind 555,157 sites, of which Japan accounts for 533,104. The revealing detail is the domain ending. Even with a customer base that is overwhelmingly domestic, .com leads rather than the national suffix, a reminder that Japanese businesses buy generic domains for the same reasons everyone else does. Country of hosting and country of domain are separate facts, and anyone sizing the Japanese web from registry data alone will undercount it badly.

For a vendor trying to enter Japan, a hosting list is one of the few practical ways to build a domestic target set without a local sales network already in place. For a competing provider it is a migration map. For anyone studying infrastructure concentration it answers how much of a national web sits with local companies rather than international clouds, a question that only makes sense across the full population and across successive exports.

Attribution comes from network and response evidence rather than from any customer record, so it inherits the usual limits. Sites fronted by a content delivery network can mask their origin, resellers appear under their own brands, and a domain that moved between crawls carries the older answer until the next pass. A provider of this size also serves a long tail of parked domains, staging environments and dormant projects that are indistinguishable from live businesses in a scan. Read the figure as observed infrastructure at a point in time, dated to the crawl, rather than as a subscriber count.