.music Domain
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This domain has registration restrictions
Only the music community may hold a .music domain: you need a provable connection to music as an artist, band or industry professional, and must pass registry identity verification. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .music domain?
The .music domain gathers the music industry under one recognisable namespace, from streaming platforms and record labels to independent artists and educators. It is not an open extension, and that catches people out: the registry requires a music nexus tied to the specific name you are asking for, runs identity verification after registration, and reviews the nexus every year. Check you qualify before you order.
Who should register .music?
Musicians, record labels, music streaming services, and music educators.
Why choose .music?
- Universally understood meaning
- Covers the entire music industry
- Highly memorable for fans
- Premium creative branding
Who runs .music, and since when
Registry data from the .music delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- DotMusic Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2021
- Delegated 14 October 2021
- Who can register
- Music community only: a provable music nexus plus registry identity verification
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What the .music nexus and identity checks actually ask
Almost every extension on this site is sold on trust: you say what you are, nobody checks. This one is different, and buying it without understanding that is the way to waste an order. DotMusic Limited, a Cyprus company, runs .music as a community namespace, and the registry requires a nexus with the global music community as a musician, band or music industry professional, plus identity verification after the fact through its own id.MUSIC service.
The launch ran in the usual order but over an unusual length of time. A trademark sunrise opened on 11 September 2023, a six-month community phase for members of recognised music organisations followed and closed on 10 September 2024, and general registration opened on 8 October 2024. So this is a young namespace where the obvious names went to people who could evidence a claim rather than to whoever typed fastest.
The nexus is not a one-off form either. The registry states it reviews nexus qualification every year the domain is registered, which makes eligibility a condition you keep meeting rather than a hurdle you clear once.
Who is allowed to register .music?
Only the music community may hold a .music domain: you need a provable connection to music as an artist, band or industry professional, and must pass registry identity verification.
- Who qualifies
- The registry requires registrants to have a nexus with the global music community as a musician, band or music industry professional. It defines that nexus as a documented or verifiable connection through your legal name, an established music brand, or a company name evidenced by trademark or government-issued documentation.
- The name must fit too
- The nexus attaches to the specific name you are registering, not just to you. The registry states that unregistered group names and performance names need an established music record or history behind them before the matching domain can be registered, so you cannot claim a band name you have only just thought of.
- Identity verification after purchase
- You attest to the nexus when you order, and the registry then requires KYC or KYB identity verification through its id.MUSIC service after registration. Pre-verification is offered for anyone unsure whether they have a claim to a particular name.
- Checked every year
- This is not a one-off test. The registry states that it and its verification partners review the nexus qualification every year the domain remains registered, so eligibility has to keep being true for as long as you hold the name.
- If you do not qualify
- An application that fails review is rejected, and the way back is an appeal through your registrar with the documentation the registry asked for. On names already registered, the registry runs automated monitoring for acceptable-use breaches, with manual follow-up before it locks or revokes a domain. Parking one, or using it for unrelated content, puts it at risk.
Rules taken from the .MUSIC registry help centre. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .music the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.music works well if
- You are a working artist, band, label, venue, publisher or educator, and you can evidence the connection between you and the exact name you want.
- Your performing name is long gone on .com, and the shorter .music version reads better on a poster than a hyphenated alternative.
- You value the fact that the extension is verified: not everyone can hold one, which is unusual enough to mean something to an audience.
Look elsewhere if
- You are outside the music industry. The nexus requirement is real, checked, and reviewed annually, so this is not an extension to try your luck with.
- You want the name today with no questions. Identity verification adds a step that an open extension simply does not have.
- You are registering speculatively to resell. The name has to be tied to you and used consistently with the community, which is the opposite of a parked investment.
Not in the industry but writing about music? A .co.uk or a .blog will do the job without any eligibility question. See .co.uk pricing.
.music vs .com: which should you register?
The interesting difference is not price or familiarity, it is that one of them checks. Anybody can register any available .com and nobody asks who they are, which is why a .com proves nothing about the site behind it. A .music comes with a nexus test and identity verification attached, so the extension itself carries a small amount of information that a .com cannot.
What you give up is reach and simplicity. A .com works for anyone, transfers without an eligibility question hanging over it, and will never be reviewed again. If you are a working musician and the name matters, hold both: the .music as the public address that says what you are, and the .com or .co.uk as the fallback that keeps working if your circumstances ever change.
.music domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .music domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and this is the single most important thing to know before ordering. The registry requires a nexus with the global music community as a musician, band or music industry professional, and requires identity verification through its id.MUSIC service after registration. It also reviews that qualification annually. Ordering one without a real connection to music, or for a name you cannot show a claim to, means an application that gets rejected. If you are unsure, the registry offers pre-verification, and it is worth using before you spend anything.
Your registrar can appeal on your behalf, by supplying the documentation and identity information the registry asked for in its original response. That is the published route and it is worth taking if the rejection was down to missing evidence rather than a real lack of eligibility. Where the problem is the name itself rather than you, for example a performance name with no history behind it yet, no amount of appealing will help. Talk to us before ordering if you think your case is borderline.
Very likely, because the requirement is a connection to the music community rather than a record deal. The registry frames the nexus as a documented or verifiable link through your legal name, an established music brand, or a company name backed by trademark or government-issued documentation. Where unsigned artists do run into trouble is a brand new performance name: the registry expects an established music record or history behind an unregistered group or performance name before the matching domain is allocated.
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