.museum
is a restricted top level domain, with eligibility limited
to museums and their professional organisations based on ICOM's
definition of a museum. With it, museums acquired significant
new means for increasing their visibility and identity on
the Internet.
The
.museum top-level domain went into operation on November
1, 2001. .museum is managed by MuseDoma, a non profit organisation
founded by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and
the J.
Paul Getty Trust.
All information on . museum (including ".museum
naming conventions" and "applications forms" ) is available
(in english only) on the MuseuDoma web site at http://musedoma.museum.
ICOM provides hereby some basic information about .museum
and MuseDoma (some are translated in different languages).
