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June 28, 2012

The Day the .Music Died

Reyhan Harmaci, BuzzFeed


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Last week, ICANN revealed the tally of possible new top level domain names (TLDs), the result of a four-month application window —1,930 proposals for 1,409 different domain name suffixes. These will be the new dot-coms and dot-govs, the largest expansion since the Internet's creation. But from the get-go, this venture has been troubled and a closer look at the fight over one domain in particular, ".music," shows the pitfalls of a privately controlled landscape.

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