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Digital
Is a dot music domain on the horizon?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 June 2011
ICANN, the international body that governs domain name registries, like the .uk managing Nominet, has announced plans for another expansion of the non-country specific domain endings, which currently including things like .net and .biz.
And why is this relevant to you? Because Billboard reckons a .music domain might be among the innovations. Some in the US music business have advocated an industry managed .music domain ending that could be used for official artist and label sites and licensed digital music services only. Whether ICANN would actually endorse that sort of plan remains to be seen.
