.MUSIC (dotMusic) Domain Name Extension: Future of Web Music
News: .music sponsors ICANN in Brussels, Belgium. Contact us to meet up
News: .music becomes most popular Myspace profile with over 4 million friends
News: .music founder Constantine Roussos awarded as Music Innovator at SXSW
News: .music reaches 2 million global supporters. Sponsors Social Media Week
News: .music is one of largest global petitions: Surpasses 1.3 million signatures
News: .music sponsors ICANN at Seoul, South Korea annual meeting
News: .music founder Roussos on "Sitting with Innovators" panel at SF Music Tech
The .music (DOT MUSIC) domain name extension has received 1,300,000+ signatures from the at-large music community and fans for gathering support to release the .music generic top-level-domain (gTLD / TLD), making it one of the largest petitions ever assembled. The public support petition will accompany the Music.us bid for .MUSIC web site URL address suffix to ICANN. Projected launch date is 2010. Help .MUSIC spread the word! The future of the music web is approaching. ".music" stands for MUSIC as ".com" stands for COMmercial.FREE MUSIC: Download .MUSIC Theme Song FREE MP3 - Read Lyrics & Share it!
Sign the Petition: Support the .MUSIC Initiative
.music is the web domain extension representing the global music community, giving music entities a unique identity online. Not only does it increase a brand's visibility on the net, .music removes second-guessing & confusion by immediately associating a brand’s line of business with a memorable identity: music.
Why .MUSIC?
• .music is self-explanatory, memorable and enhances brand recognition
• Increases brand visibility online
• Dedicated domain branding vs. subdomains e.g Nokia.music > music.nokia.com
• Enables market targeting & segmentation of your brand's music-related activities
• Improves search ranking (SEO), marketing campaigns & conversion rates
• Enables direct-to-browser search (as opposed to only relying on search engines)
• Protect and control your brand/intellectual capital/trademark/copyright
• Gives opportunity to offer customized domains to affiliates/vendors/partners
• It is cooler than all those other domain extensions and pretty much rocks!
Who can use .MUSIC?
Musician/Composer: e.g MichaelJackson.music, EltonJohn.music, Madonna.music
Band/Group/Artist: e.g U2.music, LedZeppelin.music, TheBeatles.music
Industry Professional: e.g QuincyJones.music, SteveJobs.music, IrvingAzoff.music
Company: e.g Universal.music, Myspace.music, EMI.music, Disney.music
Org./Association: e.g ASCAP.music, RIAA.music, IFPI.music, Grammy.music
Club/Bar/Entertainment: e.g PrivilegeClub.music, MadisonSquareGarden.music
Song: e.g BohemianRhapsody.music, StairwayToHeaven.music, BillieJean.music
Album: e.g Thriller.music, ApetiteForDestruction.music, SgtPepper.music
Genre: e.g Rock.music, HipHop.music, Country.music, Pop.music
Geographic/Cultural: e.g Greek.music, Texas.music, French.music, London.music
Government/Education: e.g Juilliard.music, MENC.music, GovernmentOffice.music
Mood: e.g Love.music, Sad.music, Aggressive.music, Happy.music
Instrument: e.g Guitar.music, Drum.music, Piano.music
Keyword: e.g Download.music, Buy.music, License.music, Free.music, Sell.music
The .music generic top level domain (TLD) is powered by the Music.us / Music.mobi 360-degree Solution Platform and Entertainment Commercial Marketplace, which will enable the music community to provide their music services/products to thieir target audience within minutes. Revenue streams will include downloads, ad revshare, donations, ticketing, sponsorships, merchandising, licensing, live PPV broadcasting, paid booking (gigs/private/session player hiring). For the first time, artists can bundle downloads, tickets and merchandising together without dealing with holding inventory, production or shipping.
Branding Advantage: Why choose .music over .com/.net/.org/other extensions?
Benefits & Features of .music: Powered by Music.us Platform
Revenue-generation applications exclusively for .music
Registration includes FREE mobile music.mobi subdomain with m-commerceEvents & Conferences: *
ICANN (Cairo, Egypt): 2-7 November, 2008
Midem (Cannes, France): 18-21 January, 2009
ICANN (Mexico City, Mexico): 1-6 March, 2009
SXSW (Austin, USA): 18-22 March, 2009
Leadership Music Digital Summit (Nashville, USA): 23-25 March, 2009
Musexpo (Hollywood/Los Angeles, USA): 26-29 April, 2009
Harvard Business School (Cambridge/Boston, USA): May 2009
ICANN (Sydney, Australia): 21-26 June, 2009
Digital Music Forum West (Hollywood/Los Angeles, USA): 7-8 October, 2009
Digital Hollywood (Santa Monica, USA): 19-22 October, 2009
ICANN (Seoul, South Korea): 25-30 October, 2009[SPONSOR]
San Francisco Music Tech (San Francisco, USA): 7 December, 2009 [SPONSOR]
Mashable (New York, USA): 17 December, 2009
CES (Las Vegas, USA): 7-10 January, 2010
ICANN Studienkreis (Barcelona, Spain): 21-22 January, 2010
Midem (Cannes, France), 23-27 January, 2010
Social Media Week (New York, USA), 1-5 February, 2010 [SPONSOR]
Harvard Business School (Cambridge/Boston, USA), February, 2010
ICANN (Nairobi, Kenya), 7-12 March, 2010
SXSW (Austin, USA): 17-21 March, 2010
ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo (Los Angeles, USA): 22-24 April, 2010
Musexpo (Hollywood/Los Angeles, USA): 25-28 April, 2010
Digital Hollywood (Los Angeles, USA): 3-6 May, 2010
San Francisco Music Tech (San Francisco, USA): 17 May, 2010 [SPONSOR]
Soundctrl Internet Week (New York, USA): 10 June, 2010 [SPONSOR]
ICANN (Brussels, Belgium): 20-25, June, 2010 [SPONSOR]
New Music Seminar (New York, USA): 19-21, July, 2010* More conference/event schedules to be announced.
