Internet domain name seller CentralNic Group PLC (LON:CNIC) has bagged the rights to exclusively distribute the .FM domain on its global technical platform.
The rights to the top level domain (TLD – the bit of the web address that comes after the final dot – are owned by San Francisco-based BRS Media.
The expectation is that the .FM TLD, with its association with music radio, will be used predominantly by music-related businesses, such as pioneering music streaming site Last.fm.
CentralNic will work with BRS Media to continue to promote .FM among the online streaming and music industries.
“.FM and its affiliated domain extensions are good examples of how to succeed as 'dotIndustry' domains, with their longstanding adoption by companies who have redefined their industry, such as Last.fm,” said Ben Crawford, chief executive officer (CEO) of CentralNic.
BRS Media’s CEO, George Bundy, said migrating onto the CentralNic platform gives its TLDs and second level domains (SLDs) immediate access to many more active domain name sellers (registrars) than it had before.
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Other domain extensions under this agreement include .RADIO.fm and .RADIO.am, which are geared towards bootstrap start-ups, small office/home offices, entrepreneurs, one-person streaming companies, as well as traditional radio broadcasters across the globe.
Finally, under the same agreement, CentralNic will also launch .AM and the .co.am, .com.am, .net.am and .org.am subdomains through its new disruptive Registry Gateway Service at the end of August 2016. The Registry Gateway Service allows registrars to access multiple extensions from multiple registries through one single EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) connection.