Dear Mr. Boylan,
the project www.museum.com is commercial. There was no furtherance from
the public authorities, so we were forced to start the project that
alternative way.
In the future we have to finance the project by additional offers, for
example a
supplyer directory, which will be online in some weeks. The complete
receipts will
be invested in further developement of museum.com.
The main question is not the name or URL of a web-project today and in
general.
The question is, how can museums and the visitors benefit from the offer
at www.museum.com , to be an interesting offer for museums and visitors and
how to get them together. Since two years online, the basic tasks of the
project is the content.
In your country for example, you find the Museum of british road transport
at http://www.museum.com/jb/museum?id=19420
This is one of 2627 museums in the United Kingdom, listed at museum.com.
with friendly regards
Uwe Strauch
http://www.museum.com
MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD
museum.com GmbH
Koenigsallee 106
40215 Duesseldorf
Germany
----- Original Message -----
From: P Boylan <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: WHY A "DOT COM" ADDRESS?
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Uwe Strauch wrote:
>
> > Dear list-members,
> >
> >
> > 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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