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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."
Ignoring how stupid those new TLDs .museum
.aero really are... technically the MX is
and
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
Someone should setup the dot.com.museum to display all the defunct dot bombs :)
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
You could also try this for a joke:
Where is the museum? (click for reply)
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
.. is this.
Classy? Sorry, nhm.ac.uk is close to the sound my cat makes when it throws up.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
It makes as much sense as the other new TLDs do. Actually it makes more sense. I doubt you will find anything under e.g. ford.biz and ford.info but what you find now at ford.com - ford.museum OTOH will lead you to the old Fords. You are seeking for any science museum? Type in science.museum into the address bar - voila, all (registered) science museums. No chance to find something that is not a science museum, no need to call up a search engine.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
It is another attempt to impose power structures from the "real world" onto the net. When this idea was first discussed, many asked if the led museum would be included. I'm unsurprised to see that it's not. This is an attempt to draw a line in the sand between the 'respectable' who deserve the title of museum (the narrow closed circuit of fundraising dinners and inherited wealth) and the unwashed masses who might try to extend the idea of museum to something internet-centric.
The fact that this is implemented only as CNAMEs emphasizes that ICANN has polluted the top level namespace with sheer gimmickry. These bastions of privilege have no intention of surrendering their existing domains.
Instead of an orderly development of tld space based on compact representation for the most common areas, we are getting an expression of privilege and influence extended into the net. The nobles are riding across the peasant's fields, hunting the fox.
The real tragedy is that we have been unable to shake off ICANN. This utterly corrupt, elitist and short-sighted clique has no feeling for the natural flavor and development of the net. And yet the only thing which empowers ICANN is that we use the root name servers they recommend. Every attempt to build an alternate root seems to have fizzled, because the center of gravity remains with ICANN.
Until we find a way to migrate from ICANN-dependence, we can expect a continuing series of insults and abuses from them.