domain name for european parliament

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

Not much. It's a bit surprising though that the NIC did
accept this registration from people outside DG. And as
far as the nameservers are concerned:

   ----146.193.4.36 PING Statistics----
   13 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 7% packet loss
   round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 1222/1690/3053

   ----130.89.15.6 PING Statistics----
   82 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

   ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @146.193.4.36 ec.org. soa
   ;; res_send to server 146.193.4.36: Connection timed out

So not to be taken serious.


	Piet