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Constantine Roussos

Constantine Roussos is an entrepreneur from Cyprus. He earned his Bachelor degree from the University of Southern California (USC) graduated from the Marshall School of Business Entrepreneur Program, where he won top business plan in 2001 for his music community & marketplace business plan. The business plan laid the foundations for the .music domain extension initiative that began in 2004 under Music.us.

Constantine Roussos also is a certified music engineer and producer and a graduate of Musicians Institute, Hollywood. He has recorded, engineered, mixed and produced albums and singles for artists including A Family of Snail, Katie Quinlan, Some Change from US, A Pigeon's Rhythm, David Silverman and others. He is also a musician and singer-songwriter. He wrote, produced and recorded the .music (dotMusic) theme song and was released at the ICANN meeting in Sydney, Australia in June 2009.

Constantine Roussos has been developing the .music backend powered by the Music.us next generation ecosystem since 2004 and has been attending music conferences gaining industry support for the initiative. He also was selected to present the .music domain extension initiative at Harvard Business School in May, 2009.

The .music initiative has gathered music industry support as well as support from musicians and other stakeholders in the music community. The .music petition has received over 800,000 signatures, making it the 2nd largest global petition ever on the internet.

Twitter:

.Music (Official Twitter)
dotMusic (.Music News)
.Music (Music Domain News Twitter)

Myspace: .Music (dotMusic) on Myspace

Facebook Group: .Music (dotMusic) Facebook Group

About .Music

The (.music) dotMusic initiative will be sponsored by Music.us. It has the goal to help the music community brand itself as well as to monetize the concept using the platform that the sponsoring organization Music.us will include with each music registration.

The proposed domain will be powered by the Music.us and Music.mobi 360-degree Solution Platform and Entertainment Commercial Marketplace, which will enable the music community to provide their music services and products to their target audiences. Revenue streams will include downloads, advertising revenue sharing, donations, ticketing, sponsorships, merchandising, licensing, live PPV broadcasting, paid booking of engagements. Artists may bundle downloads, tickets and merchandising together without dealing with holding inventory, production, or shipping.

Source: .music gTLD generic top-level domain name extension on Wikipedia

Content Posted by Constantine Roussos

The Web is Dead: What This Means to ICANN, New gTLD Program and the Domain Industry

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ICANN may face anti-trust lawsuits if Registry-Registrar Vertical Integration not allowed for new entrants to increase domain competition & innovation

As the VeriSign lawsuit has shown, it is critical that ICANN does not shoot new entrants on the foot and cripple them from innovating and competing both in the domain industry and other industries if their model is suited for that function. Falling prey to the antiquated concept of Vertical Separation will create anti-trust problems. Top-level domain (TLD) new entrants already have all odds stacked up against them.

Will the movie industry's raise of movie ticket prices negatively impact Hollywood industry profits and increase piracy and illegal downloading of pirated films?

Will the increase of movie ticket prices increase the illegal downloading of movies? Will high prices  of ticketing negatively affect the profits of the movie industry and Hollywood in the long run and push loyal movie goers to piracy?

Can Innovation Help Fight Piracy? 5 Steps to Innovative Behavior, Creativity & Creating New Opportunities

Innovation is regarded as the new way of doing something that is useful. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes. Can Innovation help fight piracy and introduce new opportunities and methods for monetization? The 5-Step Visualization Method for Creative Thinking & Innovation can help bring about innovative behavior, creativity and as a result create new opportunities.

Fighting Piracy By Encouraging Illegal Activity: Can Pirates Be Potential Customers?

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The Battle for dotNYC (.nyc) domain extension: Is RFP the answer?

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Cyberterrorists, Phishers and Hackers: What do we do about them?

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