# Arts and culture sector to get their own .art domain name

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/05/30/arts-culture-sector-get-art-domain-name/
- Published: 2016-05-30T23:31:16+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The arts and culture sector will this year have its own distinctive top-level 
domain name, .art, to offer immediate identification with the arts.**

 

The domain name was the idea of UK Creative Ideas Limited which, following agreement
with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will act as
the exclusive operator of the domain. It will be available to arts organisations
from Autumn 2016.

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![.art domain name](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2016/05/dot-art.jpg)

 

 

 

John Matson, CEO of UKCI, said:

 

> “Our goals are to support existing museums, galleries, artists, auction houses
> and others in protecting and enhancing their brands, to inspire new organisations
> to build on .ART real estate, and to make domain names available to younger players
> to the art scene whose names are no longer available in other TLDs and want to
> immediately be identified with the art world.”

 

UKCI was founded by Russian venture capitalist Ulvi Kasimov, who serves on the Board
of Trustees at the Moscow Multi-Media Art Museum and has sponsored a number of exhibitions
and publications.

 

 

 

Organisations and individuals can request an .art domain from [dotart.domains](http://www.dotart.domains).

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