.museum – the digital address of museums

.museum – the digital address of museums










(PRWEB) July 13, 2003

Secura is authorized by ICANN and MUSEDOMA to register museum-domains. Museums get museum – domains by Secura in a fast and reliable manner (https://www.domainregistry.de/museum.html).

Why museum-domains? MUSEDOMA writes: “The rationale for the .museum TLD is fundamentally based on the notion of authenticity. The .museum TLD is intended to privilege and to provide a platform for facilitating and encouraging all of the varied and unique activities that are part of a museum’s mission for the ever-growing professional and non-professional audiences relying on online communication and education.

It is perhaps even more important in cyberspace than it is in physical space for the sources of information about inventions, art works, artifacts and other evidence of people and their environments to be authentic and verified.”

The .museum-domain is an exclusive domain.It is open for registration by museums, organization of museums and friends of museums. A proof to be a museum is necessary for registering museum-domains. Museums get the eligibility to register .museum-domains at Musedoma. After they have got the ENS ID (=proof of eligibility) and the Confidential Key, they have to return to http://www.domainregistry.de/museum.html in order to

register their museum-domains.

Attention: The registration of the ENS by Musedoma is not the registration of the museum-domains.For museums, who do not want to apply themselves at MUSEDOMA, Secura procures the ENS for the museums by sending the application in the name of the museums to MUSEDOMA as a special service: everything from one hand.

The museum-domains have a third-level-structure in the form specific.generic.museum. It is e.g. not possible to register munic.museum. A correct museum-domain looks like chicago.art.museum. The

second level shall define a disciplinary afiliation, the location or a generic notion, but you are free to make a choice. The second level label is not exclusiv for a certain museum. The third level label should derive of the name of the museum.

The rules shall prevent, that a third party is registering the name of a (well known) museum.The combinations of all three labels are unique and belong to the owner of the museum-domain. The managers of digital museums can register at virtual.museum, digital.museum, online.museum or

cyber.museum – even at all second levels.


















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