gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.madrid	Comunidad de Madrid	madrid.org	View

The .MADRID TLD application is submitted by the Region of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid), which is the Government of the region of Madrid region; analogous to the States in the Federal States of the USA) on behalf of, and for the Madrid community.

The following clauses (A), (B) and (C) describe the delineation of the Madrid community and corresponding policy principles of the .MADRID TLD.

(A) The Madrid community comprises individuals as citizens and legal entities with presence in the Region of Madrid. This territory comprises the 179 Municipalities, including the city of Madrid and its metropolitan area Madrid is the capital of Spain as established by art. 5 of the Spanish Constitution. A bona fide presence in the Madrid area may be determined by the following:

- residence in the Madrid area, or

- the pursuit of lawful business activities in the Madrid area, or

- the pursuit of cultural leisure, and sport activities in the Madrid area, or

- any other kind of direct or indirect presence that is generally accepted as legitimate for, and conducive to the welfare of, the Madrid area.

(B) Registration of domain names under the .MADRID TLD is restricted to members of the Madrid community and subject to the further requirement that the domain name registrant’s direct or indirect presence in the Madrid area and the registrant’s use of the domain name must be:

(1) of a kind that is generally accepted as legitimate and
(2) conducive to the welfare of the Madrid area and
(3) of commensurate quality to the role and importance of the respective domain name and
(4) based on good faith at the time of registration and thereafter.

(C) The government of the Region of Madrid, in relation to the requested .MADRID TLD, acts as the highest representative body for the Region of Madrid, as well as the representative of this community in dealings with other institutions of the Spanish state and its different administrative bodies, including the city of Madrid as state capital. In light of this, the full support of the Spanish Government has been obtained through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, as well as for the Information Society and that of the city of Madrid, via its activities in the area of Economic Governance, Employment and Citizen Participation, with the common objective of establishing new channels for relationships based on good faith.



Answers to enumerated question points:

How the community is delineated from Internet users generally. Such descriptions may include, but are not limited to, the following: membership, registration, or licensing processes, operation in a particular industry, use of a language.

The Madrid community relates to the geographic area of the Region (Comunidad) of Madrid or the Madrid area, a described above. The Madrid area comprises the geographic urban areas of the city of Madrid. It is clearly recognizable by urban infrastructure, such as the local transport network in and around the City of Madrid. It also comprises 180 other municipalities of diverse size and character.

The delineation described under (A) above matches the reality of the Madrid community as it has existed since the advent of Madrid as a modern metropolis.

A Madrid community has existed for a long time. For as long as it has existed, those who belonged to it were those who had a bona fide presence in the urban area and its surroundings. With the advancement of civilization, new forms of presence (such as business or culture) have become generally accepted. A bona fide presence in the Madrid area may be direct or indirect, on the basis of domicile, activity, cultural links or any other constructive commitment to the Madrid area. It may be emanating from the area or be directed to the area.

Given the vast scope of a modern metropolitan community, and its surroundings, community membership always depends on context. This is why, for the purpose of domain registrations, the strength and quality of the registrant’s nexus must be commensurate to the role and importance of the domain name to the community.

In other words, a bona fide presence in the Madrid area (and thus community membership) is a necessary condition, NOT in itself a sufficient condition for the right to hold any imaginable .MADRID domain name. As the policy principles under (B) above description show, there are additional requirements specific to the intrinsic role and importance of the domain name in question. They concern in particular the nature of the registrant’s presence in the Madrid area and the registrant’s use of the domain name.

The wish to hold a .MADRID domain name is not in itself a sufficient indication of a bona fide presence in the Madrid area. Furthermore, if a person has been able to register a domain name in .MADRID, this does not in itself entitle that person to register any imaginable other .MADRID domain name.


How the community is structured and organized. For a community consisting of an alliance of groups, details about the constituent parts are required.

As any other modern metropolitan area, the Madrid community is organized to the highest degree. The Madrid area belongs to one single, highly integrated community. Because of if its importance and size, the community’s organization involves a number of public bodies and authorities on several levels (such as the Region, the Municipalities, and for the biggest among them, the Districts), treaties between public bodies, joint investments in public infrastructure companies, public-private partnerships, coordinated policies and legal frameworks that define the duties and prerogatives of each body. The public bodies are established by law and their representatives are democratically elected by universal suffrage. It goes without saying that private companies and cultural or welfare organizations also belong to the organization of the community.


When the community was established, including the date(s) of formal organization, if any, as well as a description of community activities to date.

The City of Madrid (and therefore the Greater Madrid Area) has existed as an organized community since Middle Age, having grown naturally over time. It has been the Court and then Capital of Spain since 1561.

The activities of the Madrid community are:
- the shared concerns and pursuits of the residents and stakeholders of the Madrid area (along with their organizations or public bodies)
- the shared use of the infrastructure and services of the Madrid area, such as transport, telecommunications, as well as culture, education, welfare and leisure,
- a strong focus for tourism, including leading role in cultural tourism (Madrid is the seat, for instance, of the World Tourism Organization).
- the role of the City of Madrid as capital of Spain.

The Madrid community includes extensive activities in the digital world specific to the Greater Madrid Community, both in the form of e-government services and public authorities’ contributions to the development of information society. The .MADRID TLD is designed to be directly related to the activities of the Madrid community, including fostering the use of electronic administration and promoting political and social participation.


The current estimated size of the community, both as to membership and geographic extent.

The population of the Madrid area is in the order of 7 million inhabitants. The geographic extension of the Madrid Region is at 8.021 square kilometers.

The Madrid Region comprises, beyond the City of Madrid, 179 Municipalities that can be found on www.madrid.org

gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.music	.music LLC	farfurther.com	View

.MUSIC LLC was created with the express intent and purpose of serving a community established and known worldwide, which despite location, culture or genre, is identified and united by a single word: “music”. The .music TLD we envision is built on a commitment to foster musical creativity while protecting intellectual property rights. This commitment is evidenced via the bona fide support of the most representative, credible, diverse and sizeable organizations that comprise the global music community -- a community which is made up of the people who create music and the professionals that support them. The music community is dedicated to faithfully and concurrently meeting the needs of both “creators” and “consumers” of music alike.

The Global Music Community (GMC) is comprised of an international range of associations and organizations and the millions of individuals these organizations represent, all of whom are involved in the creation, development, publishing, recording, advocacy, promotion, distribution, education, preservation and or nurturing of the art of music.

To date, there are forty-two (42) clearly delineated, organized and pre-existing music community organizations that have provided individual written statements of support. This unparalleled level of global music community representation is referred to as the Charter Member Organizations of the Global Music Community (GMC). Collectively they represent over 4 million individual members within more than 1,000 associations in over 150 countries. Although these Charter Member Organizations are not the exhaustive list of every possible organizational member of the GMC, they do represent the largest, most well known, credible, and diverse membership of the GMC. Our application for .music is therefore designated as community based, and should be included in a community priority evaluation.

The structure of the music community is organized through diverse symbiotic and sometimes overlapping segments. Although the following list reflects core activities there is a great deal of community intersection and cross-pollination. The GMC structure can be generally illustrated by the following descriptive constituent categories:

Music Community organizations and associations whose principal focus is representing music creators, artists, songwriters, composers, publishers, record companies, and whose activities include product creation and development, promotion, distribution and the advocacy and protection of creative rights:
1. American Federation of Musicians in the U.S. and Canada (AFM)
2. American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
3. Association of Independent Music (AIM)
4. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
5. Church Music Publishers Association (CMPA)
6. Guitar Foundation of America (GFA)
7. Indian Music Industry (IMI)
8. Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA)
9. International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)
10. International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP)
11. International Federation of Musicians (FIM)
12. International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI)
13. Music Canada
14. Music Publishers Association of the United States (MPA)
15. National Association of Recording Merchandisers⁄digitalmusic.org (NARM)
16. National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)
17. National Songwriters Association (NSA)
18. Phonographic Performance LTD (India)
19. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
20. Songwriters Guild of America (SGA)

Music Community organizations and associations whose principal focus is the licensing, collection and distribution of fees for performance and mechanical rights:
21. Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC)
22. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
23. Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society (AMCOS)
24. Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
25. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
26. Bureau International Des Societies Gerant Les Droits D’enregistrement et de Reproduction Mecanique (BIEM)
27. Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS)
28. International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC)
29. PRS for Music (UK)
30. SESAC
31. Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM)
32. Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique (SACAM)
33. SoundExchange

Music Community organizations and associations, guilds, agencies and forums that provide a broad spectrum of professional support dedicated to, and from within, the music community:
34. Music Managers Forum (MMF) UK
35. Music Managers Forum (MMF) US
36. Music Producers Guild (MPG) UK⁄EU
37. National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)

Music Community institutions, organizations, councils and associations who engage in the education, preservation, nurturing and advocacy of the music community that includes artistic, cultural and governmental institutions, national and international music councils and community outreach and advocacy organizations:
38. European Music Council (EMC)
39. National Music Council of the United States (NMC)
40. National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
41. International Music Council (IMC)
42. The Recording Academy (The GRAMMY Organization)

.MUSIC LLC is the only entity to receive the support and endorsement of the preceding music community organizations and associations in its application for the .music TLD. This unprecedented global demonstration of support from the Community is indicative of its unified political will and the strength of its belief that .music should be awarded to .MUSIC LLC.

Internet users, like the rest of us, engage in the discovery and enjoyment of music that has been created and made available by music makers and the professionals that support them. The differentiation between general Internet users and members of the music community are clearly delineated by two well defined-criteria. They are:

1. Active participation in the creation and development of music, its advocacy and promotion, its professional support, the protection and preservation of the music community’s creative rights, as well as the nurturing of the art through music education.
2. Current registration and verifiable membership in a global music community organization that was organized and in existence prior to 2007 (as per ICANN guidelines) who are active participants in the support and representation of the creation and development of music, its advocacy and promotion, its professional support, the protection and preservation of the music community’s creative rights, as well as the nurturing of the art through music education.

Music community associations date back to the 19th century. Our oldest Member Organization is the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique, founded in 1860. In 1895, the Music Publishers Association of the United States was founded followed by the formation of the American Federation of Musicians in 1896. The 20th century witnessed the formation of the bulk of the organized music community. The 21st century ushered in the formation of the IMPALA in 2000, SoundExchange in 2003 and the American Association of Independent Music in 2005.

This community has been at the forefront of the creation, development, distribution, support, preservation, education and nurturing of music for more than a century - most recently culminating in their support for .MUSIC LLC’s application for the .music TLD as described in 20b.

The current addressable community membership is based on conservative calculations that take into account that some members may have memberships in several Member Organizations or national organizations that are also members of International or umbrella organizations. After adjusting for these factors, we estimate a current addressable community to be greater than four million unique members in more than 150 countries.