Now that .museum has been launched it is surely more appropriate than either .com or .org
Outside the USA it can get evern more complicated, a not for profit organisation I am involved with has registered .com .org .org.uk and .co.uk (its not a museum so is not eligable for .museum) with .org as its main address and the others redirected.
Trevor Reynolds
Collections Registrar, English Heritage
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>>> George Garner <[log in to unmask]> 11/25 2:57 pm >>>
This may be more useful for a website developers forum, but since I don't
know any of those I'll start here.
I've been working with a group to start a webpage for a Museum organization.
Some members have promoted calling us www.xxx.com, while others (especially
myself) heavily favor www.xxx.org. The .com'ers believe that a number of
people do not differentiate between .org and .com and are more likely to
start with .com when blindly typing in a web address. I have yet to meet a
person who looks for a museum under .com and always use .org.
Is anyone aware of any studies or documentation about web users habits
regarding .com and .org? Are all of the .org Museum websites out there
losing visitors because they do not use or have not registered their name
with .com as well? Is their a "stigma" attached to museum's using .com
addresses, i.e. do they look more for-profit instead of non-profit?
I realize this may not be the best forum, but if anybody has any answers,
ideas, or suggestions I would be glad to hear them. Please feel free to
respond on and/or off list.
Thanks in advance,
George Garner
P.S. I'm hoping we can reserve both addresses to satisfy both "sides." The
problem is what to use for our generic email address - we would have to list
it as [log in to unmask] or .org.
National Speedskating Museum and Hall of Fame
George Garner, Director and Curator
P.O. Box 3120, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 587-2609
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