Quoting Randy Heise (quoting me): >> Why not seattle.art.museum? Costs twice as much but might be worth it. > > Absolutely! Sorry, forgot about this! We have made the determination for > our Museum that the three-tier name is too cumbersome for the general > public to be aware of/remember/use for the main website, especially since > we have multiple emphasizes, but this would be a perfect use for it if > the extra expense is not an issue!
The recent introduction of support for internationalized domain names in .museum has required modification of the naming conventions. The most important change is the elimination of the required use of a generic second-level label. The general form "specific.generic.museum" can't meaningfully be carried into the IDN environment and it's no longer appropriate for this form to be mandatory in non-IDN use. The new naming conventions therefore permit names in the form "specific.museum". Generic labels are, however, still reserved to support the facility maintained at http://index.museum/. The .museum naming conventions are stated at http://about.museum/policy. Although a date has not been set for the full implementation of the new policies, the next version of the policy document has been posted for public review and comment at: http://about.museum/policy/policy.ver3.html There is a companion tutorial document, also for public review at: http://about.museum/naming/naming.ver2.html The terms of introduction of two-label names have not been finalized and the date for the full implementation of the new policies cannot be fixed until they have. There will be some form of "sunrise" during which current name holders will be given privileged access to names that they might have acquired if the new policies had been in effect earlier. /Cary --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
