I pre-registered for a .music domain a couple of years ago (I’ve completely forgotten how it came about).
https://www.register.music/
Sounds like the domains go on general release tomorrow so I’m going to claim my reserved one today (not that anybody else will want it 
also pretty unlikely that I will do anything useful with it for 12 months and then not renew it next year).
Any one else getting one, and hopefully making use of it?
how much for a year?
in general my philosophy about domains is simple, is it’s not for commercial purposes I’d go for the cheapest option out there, I wouldn’t spend more than whatever .com/.net/.xyz costs like $20-30/year, nobody types in full domains anyway nowadays, most of the website entries coming from clicks, you share the link where-ever like messages/forums/bio sections and people just click the link, no point of paying more just for that…
Some context:
not sure what I’m supposed to understand from this except some supposed benefits for musicians but imo $ 73.99/yr is too much.
It was $50 for the first year, supposedly discounted from $69.
Some blurb from the email reminders I got:
" This is big. I started this journey in 2008 and now every music community member’s dream has come to fruition: .MUSIC is now LIVE! There’s more to that. It also comes bundled with a SmartPage to showcase all of your verified information and music links (Example: [https://nativestone.music] and a SmartBadge QR code to share your verified .MUSIC SmartPage everywhere (Example: [nativestone.music]
We are only getting started. More features will be added soon to make .MUSIC as impactful, meaningful and useful to you.
Are you ready to rock 'n roll yet? Artists representing over 95% of global music consumed already claimed their names. Join them and get yours too."
I got mine. I’ll definitely use it but it’s not a “build it and they will come” scenario. You still have to promote it. For me, it’s going to be useful to separate my writing from my music. I’m in no hurry to get it up and running though. I just wanted to squat on my domain name before it gets taken.
Going to register Hometapingiskilling.music
I did the pre-registration a year ago or something. Got a mail 2 weeks ago that my request was rejected because the name was reserved for general purposes or something along those lines.
Which is weird because it was a pretty obscure name that I chose. Oh well 
Thinking about starting an act called Spotify Killed Music and register it as Spotifykilled.music and then have all my music on Spotify…
This is someone’s cash cow… it’s way to expensive for what it is. You’re better off with a .com.
There’s definitely an opportunity for “(evil tech company/person)+(active verb).music” fun and games
…learned about it totally out of the blue right here, right now…
i run various .eu and .com domains for under 40 bux a year…
more than 50 bux for just one .music domain is crazy expensive…
since it’s nothing but another domain…and domains are still quite some exclusive and pretty nice to have thing, sure, but also kinda oldschool already, since real traffic happens elsewhere but there in days of internet 3.0…
it only makes sense as a personal homespot reference…or a truu shopping backend, if ur actually able to create any sort of traffic…which even the biggest names in the biz don’t really do, since everybody already has their more or less established spots of personal availability in broadcast urselve u tube and the usual streamingfarm suspects, where all the average people spent their time already anyways and where 99% of all traffic simply takes place…
if not multiplicated by any sort of label, totally rely on selfpromoting wonderland, u need at least some dedicated utube channel and some likewise bandcamp backend adress… any .music domain won’t do any further trick any other .whatever domain could not also do for u…
so, if this .music domain does not offer a truuly implemented shop backend, with server capabilty for streaming sound and picture on it’s own terms, this offer is nothing but eye and ear washing, fishing for desperate egos…
that’s the part I don’t understand, do they really provide hosting with this price too? because I don’t see any of that for example on godaddy, just $74/y for the domain.
and if it comes with hosting, what are the terms?
this chart posted on music.us makes no sense to me, unless they host the website on some sort of wix-like platform how on earth are they going to enforce all of these protections?
who’s behind the Built-in Security (https) clause? is that Let’sEncrypt? CloudFlare? DigiCert? do I get to choose?
I really don’t understand any of this presentation and how it’s supposed to justify the price.
is that what’s https://register.music/ for? to be a wix-like platform for music? where’s the TOS of that? what’s the limitations? who’s doing the commerce part? who’s doing the hosting part? who’s doing the storage part?
Those are my thoughts:
Emphasis on the last word.
Yeah, new tlds are just a gimmick, so useful if you’ve got a gimmick URL but otherwise just get something you’ll use.
You’re paying for the domain name.
Everything else is imaginary.
Novelty TLDs are looking to sell to people who don’t understand what they want and what registrars can actually offer.
Someone behind the scenes registered the name you requested after you requested it, because they found it more valuable to resell, love how these registrar-squatter creeps operate.
I’ve found a video about this “enterprise” and one of it’s selling points is “a musician looking for a domain but the domains are taken”, the irony…
aside from the weird af 2 minutes of “someone looking for your music finding torrent websites and gets infected by viruses” nonsense.
the more I look the weirder this whole thing gets
Yeah, ICANN just wants $.
It grants the right for any sort of low-character registrar to control gTLDs without really discriminating on whether this “community TLD” is actually from or supporting any community.
There’s a reason most spam links come from these non .com .org domains, why they have less prestige and more suspicion. ICANN does occasionally sever relationships with the registrars they grant control over new/custom gTLDs but it doesn’t nearly happen enough.
And to actual domain owners, they offer no benefits beyond the occasional funny gimmick/pun link.
This case looks like they just took the garbage crypto/NFT peddler rhetoric and slapped it on as if the domain name granted you anything useful.
I’m simultaneously agreeing with you and also explaining to my business partners that we need to budget for a custom TLD for our SAAS project. 
(nevertheless, many things that make sense for corporate SAAS should not be let anywhere near music production/consumption)
Yeah, probably something somewhat better handled like .io I imagine.
I don’t have to deal with it a ton in my day job but i’m pretty familiar with merchant accounts and e-commerce and the ICANN endorsed grifting is super blatant, somehow more shady than GoDaddy and Epik combined.
At best, novelty gTLDs are more suited to companies dumb enough to buy every new one to “protect their trademarks”.
