A European 'TLD' forum might be useful, and the first move should be to collect how TLD management is done over Europe. Different countries have different policies, etc. There's no need to collect such information: see below. Some multinational company which wants to create a bunch of domains in different countries needs more information on how this can be done and who should be contacted. In that case they simply ask the contact person for the top level domain(s) involved and they'll get the document with the conditions. But they should count on the document being available *only* in the national language, with no authoritative translation being or ever being made available in any other language. This will be the case in particular in those countries where e.g. a prerequisite is that a domain requestor be registered with some official body like a Chamber of Commerce in the country. Political questions like how the conditions are or have been established are irrelevant for companies, providers, or anyone else requesting a domain registration. To put it another way: such questions won't be answered. -hostmaster