Document Archives

The following material documents activity prior to the 17 October 2001 signing of the .museum TLD Sponsorship Agreement between ICANN and MuseDoma. Recent events are documented at http://about.museum/events and recent press releases are presented on the same site together with other material about the action or event that they describe.

TLD Application Procedure

Executive Summary of the application submitted to ICANN
Complete Application for .museum
Letter from ICOM to its members and affiliates

Press releases

3 October 2000 ICOM seeks new Internet domain for museums
20 November 2000 Dot-museum (.museum) named as one of seven winners in expansion of Internet domain names
28 June 2001 Dot-museum domain will begin accepting requests June 30
18 October 2001 Dot-museum: ICANN's first sponsored TLD agreement

Conference Presentations

A talk given by Cary Karp at the New Top Level Domains - Public Hearings on 11 Jan 2001 arranged by EC-POP in Brussels. See also presentation on CORE prescreening model by Werner Staub, CORE, at the same hearing.
A talk given by Ken Hamma at the CIMI Institute Forum on 25 Jan 2001 at The Getty Center in Los Angeles.
An audio recording (MP3) of a webcast discussion following the preceding presentation, including Cary Karp via a video link and the open participation of the Internet user community - stream or download
Audio recordings (MP3) of the presentations made at the public inauguration of .museum in Barcelona on 4 July 2001 during the ICOM Triennial Conference.
An audio recording (MP3) of a workshop held by Cary Karp at the WIPO Second International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property in Geneva, 19-21 September 2001 - stream or download

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