domain name for european parliament

>	I would like some advice on the most appropriate
>	top level domain.
>	I see 3 alternatives:
>	1. Creation of a new top level domain. They already proposed
>		eur
>	   Considering the status of the European Community, such a
>	   request looks reasonable to me.
>Yet another non-standard (non-ISO3166) top level domain?
>Yech! Who is going to register it? Who is going to manage
>it? Who can register it? It's opening a can of worms...

If you think thats funny then check this one out:

whois -h nic.ddn.mil "ec.org"
Commission of the European Communities (EC1-DOM)
   Directorate-general Telecommunications, Information
         Industry and Innovation.  Rue de la loi, 200
         B-1049 Brussel, Belgium

   Domain Name: EC.ORG

   Administrative Contact:
      Mullender, Sape  (SM3383)  Mullender at cs.utwente.nl
      +31 53 89 3709
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Vogels, Werner  (WV33)  werner at inesc.pt
      +351 1 3100316

   Record last updated on 20-Feb-92.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   FREYA.INESC.PT               146.193.4.36
   HELIOS.CS.UTWENTE.NL         130.89.15.6


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Yes - we told them it might not be a good idea in the long term but
what can you do....
Dave