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'''Music.us''' 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>
'''Music.us''' 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.
According to Roussos, he thought the importance of having a .music web domain extension for the global music industry community after receiving the 2001 Top Business Plan Award from the University of Southern California [[(USC)]] Business School Entrepreneur Program. <ref>[http://www.techdirt.com/profile.php?u=music Techdirt.com]</ref>
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.
==Mission Statement and Core Values==
“To enhance the universal well-being and quality of life of all music stake-holders, increase innovation, participation and collaboration.” <ref>[http://music.us/mission.htm Music.us]</ref>
==Initiatives==
* Music Education
* Fight Piracy and Trademark Protection including Intellectual Capital
* Promote musicians welfare, rights, and music compensation
* Society enrichment with artistic cultural diversity
* Music and Internet space innovation
==Plans==
==Plans==
.music 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]].
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==
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