Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups
November 30, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
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 Museums, or ICOM, in Paris, and the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Los Angeles.
- HandsNet is offering free subscriptions to its WebClipper service to social-services organizations with annual budgets of less than $200,000. The WebClipper service, which normally costs $99 per year, searches more than 500 Web sites that provide information for social-services groups and sends members a daily e-mail message with new information in their fields of interest. The scholarships are being paid for by the proceeds of the organization’s online auction of mousepads signed by celebrities. To get there: Go to http://www.handsnet.org.