Domain investor unveils new site for bands.
A new service for music bands formally launches in beta tomorrow at a killer web address.
Bands.com is billed as a one stop shop for a bands’ web presence. Bands.com offers web sites, music and merchandise sales, social network integration, show calendar integration, and other must haves for music groups. Bands can either use a bands.com URL or their own domain name with the service.
The site is being launched by Emerge Media, led by long time domainer Anthos Chrysanthou. Chrysanthou bought the domain name from iREIT at the beginning of last year. For a long time iREIT held the domain name out as the gem of its portfolio, and one it had grand development plans for.
Bands.com has plenty of competition, but Chrysanthou says it’s unique because it’s literally a one stop shop. It also offers lower fees than many competitors, including six months at no charge.
The site is in invitation only beta. You can use the invite code ‘launchparty’ to sign up.
Seems like it is going to compete with intonationnetwork.com , killer domain name btw bands.com
I wish the domain investor luck with this. I love music and websites which help musicians are on my list as well. Myspace was good at this once then they got greedy. Great name indeed, I hope they stick with the plan and don’t sell out.
Congrats to Anthos on the upcoming launch!
Looks interesting. Most small bands have crappy web sites and they don’t have the know-how or time to set it up but a web platform done right can do very well. Kickstarter.com is good example of how a platform can take off when done right.
I used to go to club in Trenton to see concerts. For years I found little or no information about it other than a few tidbits because Jon Stewart bartened there. To my shock and amazement I came across a Kickstarter page to do a documentary about the place and they collected over $38K in donations in 6 weeks (almost doubling goal of $20K). That could never have happened without the platform. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/457419391/riot-on-the-dance-floor
Also, to all those mutants and spuds … Devo is just 2 weeks away!