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Bandname.com offers digital solution to bands
Music Week - October 21, 2005
Bandname.com, the band name online registry is launching a digital service which will allow artists to sell music downloads directly to fans from their own websites.
Bandname.com co-founder Paul Berrow says, "The artist controls the process from beginning to end. They fix the price, format and DRM capability and we enact all the commercial activities for the download, card processing and SMS. The service stands on its own merits."
The website is currently developing a suite of self-managed digital platforms, which will include a video download store, electronic press kits and other business tools.
Berrow adds, "Artists can now gain access to sophisticated business tools that would have been unthinkable two years ago, and this bandnameplus initiative goes some way to levelling the playing field in new media for aspiring and developing talent."

Billboard - October 21, 2005
Bandname.com, the New York-based virtual band-name registration company, is enhancing its offering with the addition of a chart-eligible digital store facility.
The company is bowing the bespoke, self-managed, digital store option to its platform in a move which is designed to allow its users to sell music downloads direct from their artist sites. Bandname.com boasts more than two million users, including 500,000 active bands and artists.
"The artist controls the process from beginning to end," comments Paul Berrrow co-founder of bandname.com. "They fix the price, format and digital rights management capability and we enact all the commercial activities for the download, card processing and SMS."
Bandname.com, which recently acquired its opposite number in the United Kingdom -- the Band Register -- is additionally developing a raft of self-managed platforms for its artist community.

Record of the day - October 17, 2005
Bandname.com, the UK owned global band name registry and artist community platform founded by Paul and Michael Berrow along with Ed Steinberg in 1997, is launching a unique new, self-managed, digital store option for its 2 million members - which includes over 500,000 active bands and artists - currently signed up to its service. The platform will allow bands and artists to sell downloads of their music directly to their fans from their own websites.
Paul Berrrow co-founder of bandname.com said, ?The artist controls the process from beginning to end. They fix the price, format and DRM capability and we enact all the commercial activities for the download, card processing and SMS. crucially there are no onerous long-term commitments and we operate a transparent accounting policy with our members throughout the relationship. The service stands on its own merits.? This chart eligible, new digital store package has been built on the foundations of existing industrial scale platforms that have proved to be the best on the market. it will be available through bandname.com?s bandnameplus service which also provides a wide range of premium services to musicians and the music industry including classified advertising, newsletters, a comprehensive industry database and web marketing tutorials exclusively available to members.
Bandname.com is further developing an extensive suite of self-managed digital platforms for its artist community covering such areas as self managed ringtone app, video download store, merchandising, electronic press kits and other complimentary business tools. Bandname.com has forged strategic technical relationships in both the US and UK to support their ambitious vision. Industrial strength platforms used by the major record labels to support their commercial activity are now available to hundreds of thousands of bands worldwide at a fraction of the usual cost and in some cases for free.
Paul Berrow co-founder of bandname.com said, ? One of the obvious strengths of bandname.com is the huge buying power of our community. Bandname.com can be seen as a members club that works collectively to remain at the top of the technology curve. We are at a tipping point in the market with regard to ?long tail? development and the collective business of this tail is expected to amount to more than the mainstream within a few years. Artists can now gain access to sophisticated business tools that would have been unthinkable two years ago and this bandnameplus initiative goes some way to levelling the playing field in new media terms for aspiring and developing talent.

Bandname.com Launch Digital Store Kit For Bands
CMU Unlimited - October 2005
The people behind band registry Bandname.com who, as previously reported, recently acquired The Band Register, has announced it will launch a new digital store facility that will offer any of its 2 million registered bands the opportunity to sell digital music directly to their fans. Unlike the other digital music platforms tuned into the independent and unsigned space, Bandname.com's service is essentially a kit for bands to manage their own download sales - the band sets how many tracks are available, what formats are offered, what DRM is included and what price is charged. Bandname.com's platform then does the billing. Announcing the new service, Bandname.com co-founder Paul Berrow told CMU: "The artist controls the process from beginning to end. They fix the price, format and DRM capability and we enact all the commercial activities for the download, card processing and SMS. Crucially there are no onerous long-term commitments and we operate a transparent accounting policy with our members throughout the relationship. The service stands on its own merits".

Faster route to the right track.
DotComTelegraph - December 22, 2000

Even the most dismal rock group has numerous fan sites that are devoted to cataloguing its lead singer's choice of breakfast cereal that morning. This means that it can be frustrating trying to find an official site. In among the dross, Bandmatrix.com, solves this by only listing official pages in its database of 12,000 sites.
www.bandmatrix.com

NET MUSIC SITE OF THE WEEK ***Bandname.com***
www.imusicweek.mu - December 8, 2000

A comprehensive resource catering to the needs of musicians and music fans. You¹re just one click away from your favorite artist¹s website via a search engine which www.Bandname.com has distributed free to thousands of other websites and also via the www.Bandmatrix.com.

Net Noise - Bandname.com
TheStandard.com - Beat Sheet Newsletter, November 14, 2000

The do-it-yourself contingent might find some useful tools here after slogging through the free registration process and getting to the innards of the site, which bills itself as the "Worldwide Band Registry." You'll find daily updated classified ads with a certain amount of inadvertent hilarity sprinkled about (see Narkoleptik Willie, a "mild punk" band who cautions, "We are a Christian band. If you can't deal with that ... too bad. We play for Jesus," and the weekend vocalist looking for a "songwriting partner such as a Lennon/McCartney team." Hey, try not to snigger out loud; we've all got to start somewhere). Also find lists of publicists, venues, publishers and managers for those looking for a signpost pointing toward stardom - or at least a gig at the local dive bar. Other offerings include the meaty Bandmagazine area, which has a wealth of resources ranging from instructions on how to get signed to free advice from an entertainment attorney to counsel from such luminaries as Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. Sure, veterans already know most of this stuff, but neophytes can get a crash course in the intricacies of the star-making machinery before selling their soul to the man.

The Latest
October, 2000
The Worldwide Band Name Registry. Get your band included as the music industry uses it to search for new bands and up-to-date band news.

Venue
September 15-19, 2000
Got the perfect name for your band but worried that you might have a namesake playing the circuit in Toronto? Well, worry no longer. Thanks to the new music website bandname.com, you’ll be able to trawl their vast database for information on any band monicker similar to your own. And if you don’t find a match, you can register yours online. While it’s not a legally binding or even a trademark, the service will help when it comes to that lengthy court case brought against you by Giant Faceless Records / AOL Ltd over who has rights to what name (not as uncommon a circumstance as you might believe). It’s certainly a service that Bristol space rockers The Heads could have done with.
Despitetrading as The Heads for nearly ten years, they were threatened with court actions when Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth decided on a whim to flog the talking Heads sans David Byrne as, you guessed it, The Heads split after the affair still managed to cause the indie UK Heads much heartache – especially as they command a huge amount of respect in the States (where they are currently touring) and a name change could have proved disastrous. In addition to the court-avoiding services, bandname.com also provides regular updates, message boards, industry news and plenty of other advice for new bands.

Musician's Friend - Musiciansfriend Newsletter, June 9, 1999
If you're playing in a band, recording dance music, or doing remixes, you probably thought long and hard about a name for your enterprise. But if you come up with a name you like, it can be disastrous if that name has already been taken. It may not be much of a problem unless you plan to release a recording commercially, but if someone else has been using that name, you may have to come up with a new name (and begin building a reputation all over again).
So, how can you find out if your professional name is yours alone? A quick and cost-free beginning is to search for names at the Worldwide Band Name Registry at www.bandname.com. If it's not registered there (thousands are), search all federal and state trademarks and applications pending.