Protect .music websites from the exploitation of big tech companies, pirates, and domain squatters

Save .music for the indie artist!

What if all musicians and bands had websites that visitors could be certain were safe, legit, above-board, official — like .gov and .edu websites? In the coming years, .music domains will become the norm for musicians worldwide, but only if we ACT NOW to keep it in the hands of independent artists.

There is an effort to make sure the new .music website names are protected from domain squatting and piracy, and to keep the names out of the hands of non-music corporations who have already snapped up a lot of the valuable Internet real estate.

You can support that effort in just a few minutes here: http://music.us/comment.

We know that domain names don’t sound all that exciting or cool, but this is very important. Because .music sites will become the norm for music-related content online, who controls that “top level domain” is a big deal.

So, who WILL control the right to assign .music domains: some big tech corporation, or a coalition of indie music groups who want to see it controlled by a community rather than a single company?

Please speak out in support of having the sale of .music domains run by the indie community, NOT a corporate giant. Visit this page now: http://music.us/comment.

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Source: Musician Resources