The .art domain will launch its sunrise phase in early December. Their sunrise period will run from December 7 2016 through to February 7 2017. According to their site the domain will enter general availability in May 2017.
While details on pricing and other aspects of the registry’s launch plans haven’t been announced yet, the registry has announced their “early adopters” or “pioneers”.
According to a list on their site as well as coverage in the media the early adopters include the following organisations and people:
MUSEUMS
The Art Institute of Chicago
Centre Pompidou
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
M+ Museum
MALBA: Museo de Arte
Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
MAXXI: Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Multimedia Art Museum
Museo Tamayo
Power Station of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Tate
Van Abbemuseum
Walker Art Center
WIELS Contemporary Art Center
ART FAIRS
BRAFA
EXPO CHICAGO
Syndicat National des Antiquaries
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Artists Space
Beirut Art Center
Creative Time
Delfina Foundation
Gasworks
Para Site
Portikus
RAW Material Company
BIENNIALS
Istanbul Biennial
GALLERIES & DEALERS
Canesso Gallery
David Levy & Associates
Didier Claes
Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art
Hauser & Wirth
Koopman Rare Art
Lawrie Shabibi
Stern Pissarro Gallery
Tomasso Brothers Fine Art
FOUNDATIONS
Fondation Cartier
Fondation Beyeler
The Mucha Foundation
Francis Bacon Estate
Red Pencil Foundation
René Magritte Foundation
SERVICE PROVIDERS
e-flux
exhibit-E
FITZ & CO
Kickstarter
Tsang Seymour
ARTISTS
AES+F
Shen Wei Arts
Steve Miller
COLLECTORS
Jim Hedges
INFLUENCER
Love Watts
MEDIA
Cahiers d’Art
ikonoTV
Whitewall
As you can see some of the domains are already active with several of the “pioneers” having switched over their sites entirely to using a dotart domain name. Others, as you’d expect, are using their new .art domain name as a pointer either to their existing site, or to a sub-section of it.
