Perhaps this is also due to lack of publicity that this TLD (Top Level
Domain) exists?
There's good info at the official .museum website: http://about.museum/
But a goodly number of museums register under a second-level domain, such as
http://yourmuseumname.history.museum/
One such example is http://elmbridge.history.museum/ which redirects you to
another URI.
And it's more expensive...
So if you count the virtual domains, there are quite a few more than 9. But
I would have thought that there would have been more uptake. It may well be
longer to type, but it's certainly memorable. To have the URI
http://salisbury.museum/ for Salibsury Museum, for example (they don't have
it) is surely a good thing. But it looks... wrong. People are used to 3 or 2
letter TLDs.
Cheers,
Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Bruce Royan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 17 March 2004 12:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Internet Hosts
>
>
> In January 2004, there were 233,101,481 internet hosts (IP
> addresses which
> have been assigned a name) worldwide.
>
> Of these, there were just 9 hosts allocated within the top
> level domain name
> ".museum"
>
> Source: Network Wizards
> http://www.nw.com/
> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/ds/
>
> Any thoughts as to why this should be?
>
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