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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. Wow by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How completly usless.

    Well, not entirely usless, although the choice of museum's as a class of institutions deserving a tld seems kind of random.

    Otoh, I really like their index system, rather then having 2nd level domains up for grabs, although they seem to be allowing just about every catigory you could think of. I mean 'airguard.museum'? sci.museum and science.museum? and why does the louvre get a 2nd level? (those stuck up french :P)

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  2. Keep it that way by aozilla · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    Why should a .museum TLD have an A record anyway? I can see a CNAME, pointing to the real machine name, and I can see an MX, also pointing to the real machine name, but the whole concept of .museum is a web thing. What we need is a WWW record, for now CNAME will have to do.

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  3. Re:Stupid domains, incorrect statement about MXs.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And take note that the system's already sorta being treated like the old one:

    carnegie.art.museum
    carnegie.museum.of.art.museum
    carnegiemuseum.art.museum
    carnegiemuseum.of.art.museum

    They need four different domains why?

  4. Usefulness? by Zach` · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this TLD is alot more useful than many people say it is. .info, .aero, and .biz all seem useless and trivial, but it appears like .museum can actually provide a good, up-to-date index of museums. I was disappointed my town's museum isn't online yet (http://indianapolis.museum), but it'll be interesting to see it once it goes up.

    index.museum looks like it's been implemented pretty well so far, and it'd be even better with a search feature. I hope they continue to improve on it.

  5. Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Look at these racist bastards: African American Art Museum