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| logo =
| logo =
| type =
| type = Private
| industry =
| industry = Music, [[gTLD]] expansion
| founded =
| founded = 2002
| founders =
| founders = [[Constantine Russos]]
| headquarters =
| headquarters = Lemesos, Cyprus<br>
Los Angeles, California
| employees =
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| website =
| 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>
==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]].
==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
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>