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.museum TLDs are Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the icann-working-hard-for-you dept.

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."

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  1. Stupid domains, incorrect statement about MXs... by cnvogel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ignoring how stupid those new TLDs .museum
    and .aero really are... technically the MX is
    already there:

    obelix:chris$ host -t mx met.art.museum

    met.art.museum is a nickname for www.metmuseum.org

    www.metmuseum.org is a nickname for metmuseum.org

    metmuseum.org mail is handled (pri=10) by proxy00.metmuseum.org

    But of course no one told the mailserver...

    220 mail00.metmuseum.org InterScan VirusWall NT ESMTP 3.5 (build 1294) ready at Sat, 01 Dec 2001 08:20:17 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

    MAIL FROM:

    250 : Sender Ok

    RCPT TO:

    550 Relaying denied to met.art.museum