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.music
TLD typeNiche
StatusContracting to DotMusic Limited in progress
Intended useMusic

.music is a top-level domain name (TLD) released in 2003 for use in music dissemination and appreciation. It was one of the most highly contested new gTLDs, with eight applicants in contention.

On April 17, 2019 DotMusic Limited announced that their rights application had been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and contracting was in the works.[1]

Applicants

  1. .MUSIC (DotMusic Limited)
  2. Far Further (.music LLC)
  3. Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. (TLDH) and LHL TLD Investment Partners
  4. Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)
  5. Radix (DotMusic Inc.)
  6. Famous Four Media
  7. Donuts (Victor Cross)
  8. Amazon[2]

.MUSIC

A community priority application was applied for by .MUSIC under the legal name of DotMusic Limited.[3] .MUSIC was headed by Constantine Roussos, who launched the .MUSIC (music.us) website in 2005 to gather support from the global music community for a petition to ICANN. Associated organizations included the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), and the National Association of Recording Manufacturers (NARM).[4] The initiative's objectives included:[5][6]

  • Music education
  • Fighting piracy
  • Promoting the arts and global music
  • Innovation in music and the internet space
  • Promoting competition

The team planned to operate the .music TLD using a multi-stakeholder approach. A portion of the revenue generated from registrations was marked for donation to selected non-profit music organizations. These registrations would be restricted to .MUSIC-accredited Community Member Organizations (MCMOs).[7] The company chose Afilias to provide back-end registry services.[8]

Far Further

Far Further was founded by music professionals[9] with the objective of uniting the global music industry by providing it with a secure domain space[10] to promote music, protect intellectual property rights and help advance music education. They submitted a community priority application using .music LLC, a subsidiary of Far Further LLC.

The company chose Neustar to provide back-end registry services. The domain was to be restricted to registrants qualified via association with a number of supporting organizations.[11][12]

TLDH and LHL

On March 23, 2012, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. and LHL TLD Investment Partners signed a partnership agreement to apply for the .music TLD. Minds + Machines was to provide the back-end registry services.[13]

Amazon

Amazon's application was issued a GAC Early Warning[14] from representative of Australia and GAC Chair Heather Dryden. It stated that the applicant was "seeking exclusive access to a common generic string [..] that relates to a broad market sector," which Dryden noted could have unintended consequences and a negative impact on competition.[15]

Radix

Radix received a GAC Early Warning from the U.S. Government. The issue did not relate to their technical capabilities or the content of their applications, but rather the inclusion of an email address associated with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in a recommendation filed with Radix's application.[16]

Objections

A Legal Rights Objection, as defined by the ICANN approved mediator WIPO, is a third party "formal objection to an application on several grounds [..] When such an objection is filed, an independent panel (comprised of one or three experts) will determine whether the applicant’s potential use of the applied-for gTLD would be likely to infringe [..] the objector’s existing trademark, or IGO name or acronym."[17]

Official objection

An official objection was filed by DotMusic Limited against .music applicants since DotMusic Limited had registered trademarks for ".music" and "dotmusic" in nearly thirty countries.[18]

Community objections

The American Association of Independent Music (AAIM) and DotMusic filed community objections against Google, dot Music Limited, Dotmusic Inc., Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., and Donuts on the basis that they applied as open registries without enhanced safeguards or sufficient eligibility restrictions to protect music-related intellectual property and prevent music piracy. The AAIM also filed a community objection against Amazon because of its application's exclusive-access registry policies and discriminatory registration eligibility criteria that restricted registrations solely to Amazon and its affiliates. For the same reason, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies and DotMusic filed a community objection against Far Further.[19]

The objections against Amazon and Far Further were based on the ICANN Registry Agreement which required that new gTLD registries be subject to the requirements of Specification 11, which mandates that a TLD Registry must provide non-discriminatory access to registry services to all ICANN accredited registrars that enter into and are in compliance with the registry-registrar agreement for the TLD.[20] In February 2014 ICANN passed resolutions for the new gTLD program which mandated specific enhanced safeguards[21] and prohibited applicants from operating a new gTLD as an exclusive-access registry for a TLD based on a generic term.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Global music community prevails in winning the rights to the .MUSIC domain extension". Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  2. ^ Music Status, ICANN.org
  3. ^ "Office Roussos Hermes". Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Application 1-1115-14110
  5. ^ Constantine Roussos Linkedin Profile
  6. ^ "music.us". Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  7. ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  8. ^ .MUSIC (DotMusic) Applies for Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) with ICANN
  9. ^ "About US". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  10. ^ "Far Further Mission". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  11. ^ RIAA backs .music new gTLD bid
  12. ^ "About Far Further". Archived from the original on 2015-05-10. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  13. ^ TLDH to apply for .music
  14. ^ GAC Early Warning, NewgTLDS.ICANN.org Retrieved 25 Nov 2012
  15. ^ "Music AU, GACweb.ICANN.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  16. ^ RadixReg. GACweb.ICANN.org Archived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 Nov 2012
  17. ^ LRO, WIPO.int Retrieved 25 March 2013
  18. ^ LRO Cases, WIPO.int
  19. ^ List of Pending Cases, ICCWBO.org Retrieved 14 May 2013
  20. ^ New gTLD Agreement, Section 2.9, ICANN.org
  21. ^ ICANN Resolutions, ICANN.org
  22. ^ ICANN Resolutions, ICANN.org
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