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{{CompanyInfo|

| logo             =

| logo           = Music logo.png

| type             = Private

| type           = Private

| industry         = Music, [[gTLD]] expansion

| industry       = Music, [[gTLD]] expansion

| founded           = 2002

| founded         = 2002

| founders         = [[Constantine Russos]]

| founders       = [[Constantine Roussos]]

| headquarters     = Lemesos, Cyprus<br>

| headquarters   = 468 N. Camden Drive, Suite 123<br/>Beverly Hills, CA

| employees  =  

| revenue    =  

| businesses      =  

| keypeople        =  

| products        =  

| businesses        =  

| employees      =  

| website           = [http://music.us/index.htm Music.us]

| revenue        =  

| website         = [http://music.us/index.htm Music.us]

}}

}}

'''Music.us''' is the launchpad of [[Constantine Russos]]' proposed [[.music]] [[gTLD]]. Russos work with creating [[.music]] began in 2001, when he received Top Business Plan at the USC Business School Entrepreneur Program for his web music community business plan.<ref>[http://icannwiki.org/images/b/ba/Tuesday_Final.pdf ICANNwiki Conference Quickie]</ref> Music.us was founded in 2005 to help concentrate and continue the petitioning for the creation of [[.music]].<ref>[http://music.us/about.htm Music.us ABout]</ref>

'''DotMusic''' is the launchpad of [[Constantine Roussos]]' proposed [[.music]] [[gTLD]]. Russos' work with creating [[.music]] began in 2001, when he received Top Business Plan at the USC Business School Entrepreneur Program for his web music community business plan.<ref>[http://icannwiki.org/images/b/ba/Tuesday_Final.pdf ICANNwiki Conference Quickie]</ref> Music.us was founded in 2005 to help concentrate and continue the petitioning for the creation of [[.music]].<ref>[http://music.us/about.htm Music.us About]</ref> The [[Roussos Group]] CGR manages the operation of the .music initiative and the company provides financial support.

 

 

Roussos started the .music domain name extension initiative in 2005 and it is continuously accepting support from individuals, groups and companies from the music industry worldwide to sign the petition. At present, the initiative has already collected approximately 1.5 million signatures. It has also more than 4.3 million followers on myspace.music page. <ref>[http://www.music.us/initiative.htm Music.us]</ref> The signed petition from the global music industry will be presented to [[ICANN]] to strengthen the .music domain name application to be included in the Internet [[DNS]] root system. Roussos has been actively lobbying [[ICANN]] to gain the organization's approval of the .music gTLD web extension.

 

 

==Plans==

==Plans==

.music plans on offering its customers an embedded music player, and be translated and launched in 8 other languages; including French (.musique), Germanic (.musik), Hindi, Russian (.музыка), Japanese (音楽), Korean (음악), Arabic and Chinese (.音乐).<ref>http://music.us/innovation.htm Music.us]</ref> It also plans on donating proceeds from its domain registrations to non-profit organizations which promote music education, cultural diversity, fight piracy, support artists' welfare, and innovate within the industry. Music.us attends a number of international events to promote the creation and expansion of [[.music]].

Music.us plans on offering its customers an embedded music player, and will be translated and launched in 8 other languages ([[IDN]]s); including French (.musique), Germanic (.musik), Hindi, Russian (.музыка), Japanese (.音楽), Korean (.음악), Arabic and Chinese (.音乐).<ref>[http://music.us/innovation.htm Music.us]</ref> It also plans on donating proceeds from its domain registrations to non-profit organizations which promote music education, cultural diversity, fight piracy, support artists' welfare, and innovate within the industry. Music.us attends a number of international events to promote the creation and expansion of [[.music]].

 

==Reception==

==Reception==

[[ICANN]] received a letter in mid-January, 2011, from the deputy general of the Recording Industry Association of America expressing their concern over the creation of any music related [[TLD]]. The RIAA seems to believe that the creation of music [[TLD]]s will increase threats of piracy and copyright infringement.<ref>[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/92131/riaa-to-icann-music-tlds-better-be-piracy-free/ Zeropaid]</ref

[[ICANN]] received a letter in mid-January, 2011, from the deputy general of the Recording Industry Association of America expressing their concern over the creation of any music related [[TLD]]. The RIAA seems to believe that the creation of music [[TLD]]s will increase threats of piracy and copyright infringement.<ref>[http://www.zeropaid.com/news/92131/riaa-to-icann-music-tlds-better-be-piracy-free/ Zeropaid]</ref> The organization went on to support the bid of the competitive [[Community TLDcommunity application]] by [[Far Further]].

 

 

The petition to create .music has received over 1,500,000 signatures, and Constantine Russos' .music related Myspace page is the most popular on the entire site with 4,300,000 friends.<ref>[http://music.us/index.htm Music.us]</ref>

[[Category:Registries]]