"It could make good business sense for both parties, " said John Styll, co-owner of Far Further LLC in Nashville, which is one of eight applicants vying for the domain name .music.

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In the late '90s this pioneering music site may have scored the perfect domain name for offering digital downloads, but since it elected to stick with peddling legal downloads, most of the bands it features are small, independent acts.

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The Met, which was founded in 1883 by aspiring social grandees for whom there was no room at the Academy of Music Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Roosevelts is an inherently aristocratic domain.

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For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.

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