I received a request for a domain name from the European Parliament. They propose the name ep which is acceptable It may be acceptable now, but it may not be acceptable in the (near?) future. 2-letter domain names should always be discouraged as they may (now or later) coincide with top level domain names and when using them, abbreviated addressing (RFC822, 6.2.2), user@something.ep in this case, is forbidden. I'd suggest "epe" instead, doing right to the abbreviation of the name in both English and French order. 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... 2. Use an existing top level domain such as int (and join "nato" there). There are only 2 nameservers for .int and nato.int has suffered more than once from this. 3. Register ep under be (because the current connection is realized in Belgium). From a political point of view this is not a good solution. I would probably also imply that they will register also ep.fr ep.lu RARE has registered as rare.nl, so what the heck! Piet

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I received a request for a domain name from the European Parliament. They propose the name ep which is acceptable; 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. Is the also acceptable? Better names? 2. Use an existing top level domain such as int (and join "nato" there).

I think this is the most reasonable solution: the int domain was created having in mind this kind of issues.

3. Register ep under be (because the current connection is realized in Belgium). From a political point of view this is not a good solution. I would probably also imply that they will register also ep.fr ep.lu I suggest to discuss this in Praag. Regards, Pierre

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