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.music

TLD .music has launched on the 2024-10-08.


Registrations are non-realtime, as all new registrants will have to prove their identity and connection to music industry. Registrants will receive an email from the registry where they will be asked to access the dedicated page id.music in order to finish their registration. Domains will have status serverHold until this is done.


Per registry requirement, resellers are asked to provide upfront a notice of this process, to potential registrars, and to store their agreement up to 90 days. Here is the suggested English version of the notice, with “Yes”/”No” options that should follow:


“I fully understand and agree that the Registry has the right to audit this attestation declaration and an audit failure can lead to immediate suspension or revocation, without refund, of any or all .MUSIC domains connected to the registrant.”


CNR offers a domain extension X-MUSIC-ACCEPT-TAC=0|1, to mark and store the registrants acceptance of notice. The extension is not enforced for now.

API commands

Please find in the following a set of the most commonly used standard API commands in order to register, modify, renew, and transfer a domain name.

Domain Registration

(API Command reference » AddDomain)
Exception
command         = AddDomain
domain          = yourdomain.music
period          = (INT)
ownercontact0   = (CONTACT)
admincontact0   = (CONTACT)
techcontact0    = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0	= (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 	= (NAMESERVER)
X-MUSIC-ACCEPT-TAC = 0|1
  • Registrants will receive an email from the registry where they will be asked to access the dedicated page id.music in order to finish their registration. Domains will have status serverHold until this is done.

Domain Modification

(API Command reference » ModifyDomain)
Command
command = ModifyDomain
domain  = yourdomain.music

Change of registrant

Exception
command         = ModifyDomain
domain          = yourdomain.music
ownercontact0   = (CONTACT)
X-MUSIC-ACCEPT-TAC = 0|1
  • New domain holders will receive an email from the registry where they will be asked to access the dedicated page id.music in order to complete their verification. The registry may suspend or revoke the domain if this is not done.

Domain Renewal

(API Command reference » RenewDomain)
Command
command    = RenewDomain
domain     = yourdomain.music
period     = (INT)
expiration = (INT)

Domain Deletion

(API Command reference » DeleteDomain)
Command
COMMAND = DeleteDomain
DOMAIN = yourdomain.music

Domain Transfer

(API Command reference » TransferDomain)
Command
command = TransferDomain
domain = yourdomain.music
action = REQUEST
auth = (TEXT)

Transfer procedure

  • The transfer is submitted to the registry and the losing registrar is automatically notified by them.
  • The losing registrar sends an email to the owner (and optionally admin) contact, informing about the transfer; this may include options to approve and/or deny the transfer. If neither explicitly approved nor denied, the transfer will be automatically finalized after 5 days.

Transfer notes

  • A .music domain transfer must be initiated with a so-called authorisation code, (auth-code) which can be obtained from the current registrar through the owner/admin contact of the domain.
  • Ensure that your respective domain does not have a lock-status (clientTransferProhibited and/or serverTransferProhibited). This can be seen in WHOIS.
  • If the domain has a client-side transfer lock, the owner can ask the current registrar to have the lock removed.

These procedures only apply for domain transfers between registrars. For internal transfers between resellers, please consult our documentation about internal transfers/usertransfers.

Auth-Codes

The format for auth info requires a minimum length of 8 characters and a maximum length of 32 characters.

Additionally, auth info must contain at least one of each of the following three character types:

  • Alphabetic characters: a-z; A-Z
  • Numeric characters: 0-9
  • Special characters: !;<=$%?&@[()]*^+-,'-{.|/}:~

Domain Restore

(API Command reference » RestoreDomain)
Command
command = RestoreDomain
domain  = yourdomain.music

Domain Extensions

X-MUSIC-ACCEPT-TAC0|1 -> Registrant’s acceptance of notice that an audit failure to his identity or connection to music industry can lead to the registration to be revoked without refund

Domain Restrictions

There are no restrictions for .music

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