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.museum TLDs are Live
GuNgA-DiN writes: "Several sites in .museum have now gone live: you can check out met.art.museum, stockholm.music.museum, and minnesota.science.museum, for instance. You can navigate the hierarchical structure of this TLD via index.museum, or go directly to an index page for a particular second level domain by going to that domain, e.g., art.museum.
Since the .museum TLD is still in its experimental phase, these domains haven't been delegated to their registrants yet, but resolve as CNAME records in the TLD root, pointing at the other domains each site already has. Thus, .museum addresses can currently only be used as additional addresses for sites that already have some other domain. MX records haven't yet been set up, so email to these domains won't yet work."
Uh, no. Are these hard to spell?
You may hold the belief that the average Net user is a drooling idiot, but I can't share that view. Might such a user be ill-informed on issues related privacy online? Sure. Might s/he be ill-informed on kernel hackery? Sure. Does this make you a better person? No.
I somehow doubt the idea that Joe User can't spell the word "museum." I'm fairly sure your post was meant to be funny, and I apologize if I seem a bit harsh here. It's just that so many people here have a nasty tendency to look down upon anyone who (a) doesn't use Linux/BSD/OS X/whatever-cool-OS, (b) doesn't code, or (c) isn't a card-carrying GPL advocate. All three points actually apply to me, but I don't go around screaming it from the belfries.
More than anything, I've gotta wonder what kind of crack a moderator would have to be smoking to give that an "insightful +1" moderation...
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is the stupidest new domain yet.