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@cs.utwente.nl +31 53 89 3709 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Vogels, Werner (WV33) werner@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