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I never got why .museum was created, it's way too long and obscure to be effective for domain names. Even shortening it to .mus or something would be a big impr

by kylec 13y ago

I never got why .museum was created, it's way too long and obscure to be effective for domain names. Even shortening it to .mus or something would be a big improvement, but it seems like a lot of museums are using the more commonly known .org or .edu anyways.

hayksaakian 13y ago
More semantic domain names. Chicago.museum
duskwuff 13y ago
It was proposed in the Yahoo! Directory era - that is, during a period of time in which it made sense to try to build a hierarchical index of the Internet. By the time .museum was actually approved and implemented, though, crawler-based indexes were already rising to dominance, so the TLD basically missed its chance at relevance.
rogerhoward 13y ago
As others pointed out, this was a different era - more the Yahoo era than Google's, when organizing the Web still seemed (to some) an attainable goal. I worked for the guy behind this at the time, though not on this project, and it seemed very odd to me even then... this is not only a product of its time, but very much a product of the unique and quirky museum technology culture. Shorter names weren't seen as necessarily good - at least within some of the conversations around this TLD's inception there was some scorn for the overly techie, terse TLDs and domain names.
- magic_haze 13y ago
  I wasn't aware the museum technology culture was even a thing. It definitely seems... quirky, though: just look at the list of domains for the JFK museum: thesixthfloor.jfk.museum dallas.jfk.museum dealey.plaza.museum dealeyplaza.kennedy.assassination.museum dealey.plaza.assassination.museum dealey.plaza.jfk.museum
  - im3w1l 13y ago
    Seems pretty similar to the usenet naming. http://usenetstats.com/top100reads.php http://usenetstats.com/top100reads.php (NSFW). Please also note the non-binary channels.

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I never got why .museum was created, it's way too long and obscure to be effective for domain names. Even shortening it to .mus or something would be a big impr

by kylec 13y ago

hayksaakian 13y ago
More semantic domain names. Chicago.museum
duskwuff 13y ago
It was proposed in the Yahoo! Directory era - that is, during a period of time in which it made sense to try to build a hierarchical index of the Internet. By the time .museum was actually approved and implemented, though, crawler-based indexes were already rising to dominance, so the TLD basically missed its chance at relevance.
rogerhoward 13y ago
As others pointed out, this was a different era - more the Yahoo era than Google's, when organizing the Web still seemed (to some) an attainable goal. I worked for the guy behind this at the time, though not on this project, and it seemed very odd to me even then... this is not only a product of its time, but very much a product of the unique and quirky museum technology culture. Shorter names weren't seen as necessarily good - at least within some of the conversations around this TLD's inception there was some scorn for the overly techie, terse TLDs and domain names.
- magic_haze 13y ago
  I wasn't aware the museum technology culture was even a thing. It definitely seems... quirky, though: just look at the list of domains for the JFK museum: thesixthfloor.jfk.museum dallas.jfk.museum dealey.plaza.museum dealeyplaza.kennedy.assassination.museum dealey.plaza.assassination.museum dealey.plaza.jfk.museum
  - im3w1l 13y ago
    Seems pretty similar to the usenet naming. http://usenetstats.com/top100reads.php http://usenetstats.com/top100reads.php (NSFW). Please also note the non-binary channels.