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music community. It was one of the most highly contested <a href="/wiki/New_gTLD_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="New gTLD Program">new gTLDs</a>, with eight applicants in contention. </p><p>On April 17, 2019, the .MUSIC registry, the <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry" title="International Federation of the Phonographic Industry">International Federation of the Phonographic Industry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conf%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_des_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_d%27Auteurs_et_Compositeurs" title="Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs">Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs</a>, the <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Musicians" title="International Federation of Musicians">International Federation of Musicians</a>, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, the <a href="/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" title="Recording Industry Association of America">Recording Industry Association of America</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Music_Publishers%27_Association" title="National Music Publishers' Association">National Music Publishers' Association</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Recording_Academy" title="The Recording Academy">The Recording Academy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Music_Companies_Association" title="Independent Music Companies Association">Independent Music Companies Association</a>, the Worldwide Independent Network, the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_of_Independent_Music" title="American Association of Independent Music">American Association of Independent Music</a>, the NSAI, the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Music_Merchants" title="National Association of Music Merchants">National Association of Music Merchants</a> (NAMM), and the Independent Music Publishers International Forum (IMPF) announced that the global music community based application, that was supported by a global music coalition with members representing over 95% of global music consumed, was approved by the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Corporation_for_Assigned_Names_and_Numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</a> (ICANN).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The .MUSIC registry agreement was signed on May 4, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applicants">Applicants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Applicants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>.MUSIC <sup id="cite_ref-music.us-what-is_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-music.us-what-is-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon</a></li> <li>Donuts (Victor Cross)</li> <li>Far Further</li> <li>Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. (TLDH) and LHL TLD Investment Partners</li> <li>Radix</li> <li>Famous Four Media<a href="/wiki/GRS_Domains" title="GRS Domains">GRS Domains</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=".MUSIC">.MUSIC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: .MUSIC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A community priority application was applied for by .MUSIC under the legal name of DotMusic.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MUSIC was headed by <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Roussos" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine Roussos">Constantine Roussos</a>, who launched the .MUSIC Initiative in 2005 to gather support from the global music community for a petition to ICANN for the rights of .MUSIC. Associated organizations included the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_of_Independent_Music" title="American Association of Independent Music">American Association of Independent Music</a> (A2IM), and the National Association of Music Manufacturers (NAMM).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initiative's objectives included:<sup id="cite_ref-linkedin_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-linkedin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-music.us_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-music.us-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Music education</li> <li>Fighting <a href="/wiki/Online_piracy" title="Online piracy">piracy</a></li> <li>Promoting the arts and global music</li> <li>Innovation in music and the internet space</li> <li>Promoting competition</li></ul> <p>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).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CentralNic" class="mw-redirect" title="CentralNic">CentralNic</a> was selected as the back-end registry services provider.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Far_Further">Far Further</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Far Further"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Far Further was founded by music professionals<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the objective of uniting the global <a href="/wiki/Music_industry" title="Music industry">music industry</a> by providing it with a secure domain space<sup id="cite_ref-farfurther_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-farfurther-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. </p><p>The company chose <a href="/wiki/Neustar" title="Neustar">Neustar</a> to provide back-end registry services. The domain was to be restricted to registrants qualified via association with a number of supporting organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TLDH_and_LHL">TLDH and LHL</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: TLDH and LHL"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amazon">Amazon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Amazon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon</a>'s application was issued a <a href="/wiki/ICANN#Governmental_Advisory_Committee" title="ICANN">GAC</a> Early Warning<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radix">Radix</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Radix"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Email_address" title="Email address">email address</a> associated with the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> in a recommendation filed with Radix's application.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Objections">Objections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Objections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Legal Rights Objection, as defined by the ICANN approved mediator <a href="/wiki/WIPO" class="mw-redirect" title="WIPO">WIPO</a>, 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."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Official_objection">Official objection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Official objection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_objections">Community objections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.music&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Community objections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2014 ICANN passed resolutions for the new gTLD program which mandated specific enhanced safeguards<sup id="cite_ref-22" 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