Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups

By NICOLE WALLACE

Among the seven new top-level Internet domain names recommended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was dot-museum. (Top-level domain names are the last part of an Internet address, such as dot-com or dot-org, that indicate what type of organization runs the site.) The proposal for the new domain name was submitted by the Museum Domain Management Association, a group created by the International Council of