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Who can register a .museum domain?

Registration starts at $43.70 and renewal at $43.70 a year.

Who may register

Restricted to museums and museum professionals.

What it costs

Registration$43.70 / year
Renewal$43.70 / year
Transfer$43.70
Smallest possible first bill$43.70

Standard price from Dynadot. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.

Source

Read from the registry's own policy page: https://about.museum/eligibility.html. Read on 2026-07-29.

Is a .museum name free?

Availability comes from the registry itself over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.

You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:

curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.museum

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