.museum is a sponsored top-level domain (TLD) used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The idea behind this domain is that it will be beneficial for Internet users to have a segment of the TLD namespace reserved for the use of museums; a namespace whose conventions are defined by the museum community. In addition to the eligibility requirements specified in the .museum charter, a number of naming conventions apply to the labeling of subdomains. Registration are processed via accredited registrars..

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.museum Domain Prices

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Period Registration Renewal
.museum
1 year$352.00kr1710€230.00£201.00$399.20kr2485$216.50R4046.00 $465.80kr2263€304.30£266.00$528.20kr3288$286.50R5354.00  

.museum Domain Notes

Note: The registry may classify some domain names as premium domain names if so classfied they will command a higher price.

museum domains include 3rd party fees and maintenance & during the registration period. If you wish to transfer your museum domain away during your registration period you are free do do so without charge. We do not charge an administration fee.

.museum Details

Registry: The registry is Museum Domain Management Association

Purpose: Museums

Whois Information: for .museum

Once your .museum domain is registered

Once registered the .museum domain is placed on our international server, provinding an under-construction page for your .museum domain, for as long as required. (This enables a browser of your museum domain to readily identify that it is registered).

We can also supply free of charge.

E-mail redirection.

Web redirection.

Whois Privacy.

and more....

Free transfer away if required. We do not and will not charge release / transfer or administration fees for transferring domains to a different museum domain name registrars. The domain name is yours and not ours, unlike many other companies, "We recognise that fact!"

.museum Registration

.museum domain registration

Prices from as little as: $352.00kr1710€230.00£201.00$399.20kr2485$216.50R4046.00 for 1 year.

.museum Data Sheet (Domains 101)

Type : .museum
Country : Reserved for museums
Terms & Conditions : http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/museum/
IDN Enableda : No
Delete Protectionb : No
Super Lockc : No
Domain Recoveryd : No
Minimum Renew : - year(s)
Maximum Renew : - year(s)
Default Registration Period : 1 year(s)
Maxium Registration Period : 1 year(s)
Must be Positively Renewed : No
Grace Periode : - day(s)
Autorenew Grace Periodf : 16 day(s)
Domain Must be Renewed Before Expiry : No
Transfers are Prohibited forg : - day(s)
Redemption Periodh : days
Fee for Recovery From Redemptioni : $
Usage : Museums
Actual Usage : Museums (though few use it as their primary advertised address)

Notes

a. IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) domains are domains containing non ASCII characters. These are used in languages such as Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, French and German.

b. Delete Protection, an extra service provided by us. Once enabled the domain name will only be deleted once it has passed expiry by 1 year - without being renewed - it will then be deleted.

c. Super Lock, Once selected an additional level of security to inter-registrar transfers is enabled; telephone calls and other physical proof of identification will be required to verify the transfer.

d. Our DomainRecovery service can be used if your domain name is accidentally deleted or cancelled by your existing registrar. We can automatically attempt to re-register it. See Domain Recover

e. Grace Period is the number of days following the registration of a domain when the operation may be reversed.

f. Autorenew Grace Period is the number of days following the automatic renewal of a domain when the operation may be reversed. When this number is negative the domain name must be renewed before expiry.

g. During the Transfer Prohibit Period, this is x days after either the initial registration or a transfer to us, domain transfers away from us will not be allowed.

h. Redemption period. Once a domain is deleted at the registry it can remain recoverable for a limited time before it is deleted. This is the redemption period.

i. Redemption Fee. If we are asked to remove a domain from its redemption period, see above. This is the fee we will charge.

Registry Details

.museum is a sponsored top-level domain (TLD) used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In joint action with the J. aul Getty Trust, ICOM established the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma), headed by Cary Karp, for the purpose of submitting an application to ICANN for the creation of the new gTLD, and to operate it if the application was approved. The .museum domain was entered into the root of Domain Name System on 20 October 2001, and was the first sponsored top-level domain to be instituted through ICANN's action.

The idea behind this domain is that it will be beneficial for Internet users to have a segment of the TLD namespace reserved for the use of museums; a namespace whose conventions are defined by the museum community. The .museum TLD will grant users a quick and intuitive way to verify the authenticity of a museum site. Conversely, since it is a type of formal third-party certification, museums using this namespace obtain a way to assure visitors of the site's validity.

In addition to the eligibility requirements specified in the .museum charter, a number of naming conventions apply to the labeling of subdomains. Extensive support is also being introduced for internationalized domain names, as described at about.museum.

Registration are processed via accredited registrars.

.museum Assignment

How Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assign the .museum domain. IANA is a department of ICANN, a non-profit private American corporation, they oversees IP address allocation, root zone management in the Do main Name System (DNS), and other Internet related symbols and numbers.

.museum Assignment

.museum Information

General information on .museum, the country it represents and its uses.

.museum Information

.museum Renewals

You may renew your .museum domain without logging into your control panel by using our quick and painfree renewal service, or even transfer it into nominate to be renewed if necessary.

.museum Renewals

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Important:

Premium Domain Names

The registry may list some names as a premium domain name, if so this domain will be charged at a higher price than the one listed. We will contact you before completing your order if you order one of these names.

Reserved Names

The registry reserves some names for its own use, and may not mark them as registered. We may only discover this at the time of attempted registration.