band-domain

A group of musicians who do not play together as an orchestra is a band. The term is mainly used for rock and jazz bands as well as pop bands. In today's very commercial and digital age, it is not uncommon or unusual for such a music group to maintain its own homepage in order to get in touch with its fans or to keep in touch. For this reason there is also the Top-Level-Domain .band. This is a top-level domain.

Allocation and use

The registry for this domain extension .band is Rightside Registry with headquarters in Kirkland in the US state of Washington in the USA. During the allocation process, the registry looks at whether the domain has something to do with music or a music group behind it, even if only in the broadest sense. Because it can be just as well a fan page and a website of a music agent or a music manager. It can also be a band, such as exists in the field of folk music. In addition, a domain ending in .band can also become the virtual home for a music project that is still in the planning stages or that may only exist in someone's head. Because of the generally understandable name all over the world, this domain extension is internationally understandable and thus has a worldwide relevance, if the operator of a domain decides to choose this domain extension, perhaps for a project that he would like to make known internationally.

Meaning

This domain extension is of great importance especially if there are other websites registered on the WWW under the desired domain name, especially with the top level of the respective country in which the music group might want to become known. But in the end, this domain extension is not only of great importance for music groups, music agents or music managers. Also for the fans, who can find the website of their favorite band this way. But especially music groups with a slightly irritating name have the possibility to make the band name known, even if it is not clear that it is a music group because of the name. The domain extension makes this very clear.