{"id":10927,"date":"2016-10-16T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:53:30","slug":"music-gtld-free-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=10927","title":{"rendered":".music gTLD Free-For-All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=10928\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10929\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10929\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=10929\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-000000-formatted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,266\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"music-000000-formatted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-000000-formatted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-000000-formatted.jpg\" alt=\"music-000000-formatted\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-000000-formatted.jpg 500w, https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/music-000000-formatted-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are eight companies currently vying for control over the new gTLD (generic top-level domain) <em>.music<\/em>.  Here they are sorted in alphabetical order by parent company&#8212;not by the subsidiary that submitted the application:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Amazon<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Donuts<\/em> via subsidiary <em>Victor Cross<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Famous Four Media<\/em> via subsidiary <em>dot Music Limited<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Far Further<\/em> via subsidiary <em>.music LLC<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Google<\/em> via subsidiary <em>Charleston Road Registry Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>.MUSIC<\/em> via subsidiary <em>DotMusic Limited<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Radix<\/em> via subsidiary <em>DotMusic Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.<\/em> via subsidiary <em>Entertainment Names Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=donuts+inc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donuts, Inc.<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-external-link-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-external-link-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-search-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-search-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> also owns the <em>.band<\/em> gTLD through its <em>Auburn Hollow, LLC<\/em> and the <em>.rocks<\/em> gTLD through its <em>Ruby Moon, LLC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat related note, the <em>.game<\/em> gTLD is owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=uniregistry+corp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uniregistry, Corp<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-external-link-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-external-link-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-search-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-search-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> while the <em>.games<\/em> gTLD (note the addition of an &#8216;s&#8217;) is owned by <em>Donuts<\/em> through its <em>Foggy Beach, LLC<\/em>.  The costs for a domain from these companies are about $500 and $15 per name per year, respectively, so I guess <em>Uniregistry<\/em> gets to mark up its names by 3333% for having a gTLD that is only one letter shorter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amazon<\/em> and <em>Charleston Road Registry Inc.<\/em> (<em>Google<\/em>) also applied for the <em>.game<\/em> gTLD and were denied, while <em>Foggy Beach, LLC<\/em> (<em>Donuts<\/em>) was the sole applicant for the <em>.games<\/em> gTLD.  <em>Google<\/em> did file an objection to the <em>.games<\/em> name, claiming that it was too similar to the <em>.game<\/em> gTLD and would confuse Internet users.  This is funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are eight companies currently vying for control over the new gTLD (generic top-level domain) .music. 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