On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Uwe Strauch wrote:

> Dear list-members,
>
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> we would like to invite all museums worldwide to participate at the global museum project
> www.museum.com , located in Duesseldorf /Germany.

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Uwe:

Is this a commercial "for profit" venture?

If not, why is it registered in the commercial ".com" top level domain,
rather than the non-profit ".org" domain?  (www.museum.org doesn't seem to
be in use.)

Early on (6 or 7 years ago) when it was difficult to register web sites it
was perhaps excusible to register public and non-profit organisation's
web sites in .com or its non-USA equivalents.  E.g. despite protests, the
UK's BBC - a public authority - registered incorrectly as www.bbc.co.uk,
but that was six years ago, but surely the meanings and purpose of the
established top level domains must be widely known by now?


Patrick Boylan

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