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| keypeople = [[Constantine Roussos]], Founder<br/>
| keypeople = [[Constantine Roussos]], Founder<br/>
[[Tina Dam]], Director<br>
[[Ommen Abdo]], Legal Counsel<br/>
[[Ommen Abdo]], Legal Counsel<br/>
[[Allison Shaw]], Marketing
[[Allison Shaw]], Marketing
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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> The [[Roussos Group]] CGR manages the operation of the .music initiative and the company provides financial support.
'''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.
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>
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.
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.
The application by Roussos and his team was submitted by '''DotMusic/CGR E-Commerce Ltd'''.<ref>[http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/viewstatus ViewStatus, gTLDResult.ICANN.org]</ref>
==Initiatives==
==Initiatives==
* Music Education
* Music Education
==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 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>
The petition to create .music has received over 1,500,000 signatures, and 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>
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