DotMusic beats Google, Amazon to win .music domain

The .music top-level domain extension has been awarded to DotMusic and will be used to create an online ecosystem for the music industry, after a decade of legal battles

DotMusic founder Constantine Roussos

DotMusic Limited has won an eleven-year legal battle to gain rights to the .music top-level domain (TLD), beating the likes of Google and Amazon, as well as leading domain registries.

DotMusic founder and chief executive Constantine Roussos announced on Friday that his company had won the rights to the TLD, having first submitted an application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2012.

“Excited to announce that after more than a decade, DotMusic has prevailed and will…

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