Dear Drew, I'm pasting in (below) a notice that was sent to this list in February.
However, I recommend against dropping your current .org domain. You can have more than one domain point to the same address, so if you register a .museum domain, keep both of them going. Otherwise, all links to your site will stop working, everyone who corresponds with your museum will have to update their email address books, when people reply to old email messages from your staff the replies will bounce, you'll have to change all your business cards, etc. By keeping the .org domain you'll also keep someone else from registering your old domain and using it for a purpose of which you might not approve. It's well worth the small amount of money you'll pay. Robert __________________________ Robert L. Weiner Consulting Providing Strategic Technology Consulting to Nonprofits and Education San Francisco, CA [email protected] 415/643-8955 www.rlweiner.com NEW POLICIES FOR REGISTRATION OF NAMES IN THE .MUSEUM TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN News Release - For Immediate Release Stockholm, Sweden, 18 February 2004 - The Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) announced today that new policies for the registration of names in the .museum top-level domain ("dot-museum" - http://about.museum) will take effect on 1 March 2004. Earlier this year it became possible to register Internationalized Domain Names (IDN - http://about.museum/idn ) and the changes in the .museum naming conventions that this required are now being extended to apply to all names registered in the domain. The new policies expand the use of the second-level in .museum. This is the portion of the name that appears to the immediate left of the the top-level label, "museum". The second-level was initially structured to support the indexed search facility located at http://index.museum. With the appearance of what is expected to become a wide range of scripts and languages in the second-level vocabulary, the number of names that do not conveniently fit into the index will become significant. The naming conventions have therefore been modified to permit the use of the index if a name holder feels it suitable and otherwise to accept the direct registration of second-level names. It is also expected that a single organization may wish to register names of both types. The continuing development of the index requires that generic terms which might appear in it are available for shared use. Names in the form "city.museum" or "discipline.museum" are therefore reserved for inclusion in three-label names in the form "ourname.city.museum". Names with a specific designation on the second level such as, "abcde.museum", "ourart.museum", or "blåröd.museum" may, however, be registered directly. Requests for the registration of two-label names based on the new naming conventions will be accepted effective immediately and placed in two separate queues. The first will contain requests submitted by the holders of names that were formally registered as of the date of this news release. These will be processed in the order received and approved names will be available for registration from 1 March. Requests in this queue will be given priority over names in the second queue until 8 March. Requests for names received from all other applicants will be placed in the second queue, which will also be processed in the order received. The names in it will become available for registration beginning on 8 March. (All deadlines are at 0000 UTC on the indicated date.) Thereafter, all requests will be processed in normal order as they are received. Requests may be submitted via the forms provided at https://ens.museum or by e-mail to [email protected]. If you have already registered names with one of the authorized .museum registrars you may also submit your request directly to the registrar. The formal statement of the new naming conventions and a parallel explanatory text were posted for public comment on 26 January and have since been modified to reflect community response. No suggestions required the substantive revision of anything in the drafts and no significant changes of any type are anticipated prior to the new policies going into effect. The documents are located at: http://about.museum/policy/policy.ver3.html http://about.museum/naming/naming.ver2.html For more information, please contact: Kate Parson E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +46 8 5195 5150 -----Original Message----- From: Drew Hall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: .museum Hello all, Our museum is currently exploring the possibility of switching our website from .org to .museum (or is it .mus?) Does anyone have any further information on this extension? Any other museums that have experience with this? Thanks, Julie Drew Hall Inventory Technician National Heritage Museum 33 Marrett Road Lexington, MA 02421 ph. (781) 457-4118 fx. 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