I do not have any details about how much it cost to win the right to operate the registry, nor do I know how much effort the other companies made. His company was bidding against Google, Amazon, MMX, and other companies, and it prevailed. I’ve met Constantine at a couple of NamesCon conferences, and I pretty much only know of him as the person who has gone through many trials and tribulations in his effort to win the rights to operate.

MUSIC registry 🙂 #ICANN #DotMusic #DavidandGoliath #Music #Domains /tQX14eYyKu Music:Įxcited to announce that after more than a decade, DotMusic has prevailed and will be the. It looks like Kevin’s prediction was on point.Įarlier this evening, Constantine Roussos reported that his company prevailed and will become the operates of. “it seems to me the balance of evidence right now is strongly pointing to a win for DotMusic over sole remaining rival bidder MMX,” Kevin wrote yesterday. He has also been featured in major publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Billboard, Word Trademark Review, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, New York Post and many others.Yesterday morning, Kevin Murphy from Domain Incite predicted that Constantine Roussos’ company ( DotMusic) would prevail in the application to operate the. Constantine was also voted as a top business plan (OPM Idol) selection in 2009 and a top strategy selection in 2011 at Harvard Business School. He has also received numerous awards, including “Top Business Plan” at USC’s Entrepreneur Program. He has given presentations and spoken at prestigious universities as well as music and tech industry panels around the world, including ICANN, Harvard Business School, USC, UCLA, NYU, Georgetown University, Pepperdine University, Social Media Week, Internet Week, NARM/A2IM Business Crash Course, CMJ, Future of Music Coalition Summit, Popkomm, SoundCTRL and San Francisco Music Tech. Constantine is an active Harvard Business School alumnus.

His last educational journey was graduating from Harvard Business School’s(HBS) prestigious Owner-President Management (OPM) program. He continued his education at Pepperdine University in Malibu where he earned his MBA. He continued his education at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, becoming a certified music sound engineer. Ĭonstantine earned a bachelor degree in Business and a minor in music industry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Constantine Roussos is also an avid musician and singer-songwriter. He has also engineered and produced music records with artists such as Katie Quinlan, Some Change from Us, A Pigeon’s Rhythm, A Family of Snail and David Silverman. He has been a super-affiliate of brands that include Sony Music, BMG Music, Apple, Amazon, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Napster, Rhapsody and Guitar Center. MUSIC™ company, a gTLD management and consulting company that specializes in launching and managing new ICANN Top-Level Domain (TLD) names, Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Search Engine Optimized (SEO) TLD platforms for Fortune 500 brands and Industries.Ĭonstantine has been actively involved in the music and internet industry for over decade. The initiative is supported a majority of the global music community.Ĭonstantine was a Green Beret officer in the Greek-Cypriot military’s Special Forces and a member of the Military Music Department of the Cypriot National Guard (SMEF).Ĭonstantine, a Harvard Business School OPM graduate and alumnus, is the co-founder of. music top-level domain with enhanced safeguards to protect intellectual property. MUSIC, a community-based initiative to launch a safe and trusted.

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