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Type of site | Music |
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| Dissolved | c. April 2024 |
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| Created by | Michael Robertson |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | December 17, 1997[1] |
| Current status | Defunct |
MP3.com was a website operated by Paramount Global publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies. It is better known for its original incarnation as a legal, free music-sharing service, named after the popular music file format MP3, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work. That service was shut down on December 2, 2003, by CNET, which, after purchasing the domain name (but not MP3.com's technology or music assets), established the current MP3.com site.[2]
Around April 2024, MP3.com's domain was quietly taken offline with no redirect in place.
- ^ "Mp3.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
- ^ "MP3.com Shutdown Could Delete Indie Tracks". PCWorld. December 3, 2003. Archived from the original on January 23, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2016.