Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: .EU

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Vittorio,
the problem is that if ".eu" is an acceptable abbreviation to "europ:" as you
mention it, or to "euro" as ISO had foreseen, it is in no way an acceptable
abbreviation to "eec" or "european uniion" for the majority of european 
countries
not belonging to the EEC from Island to Russia.
Jefsey



At 13:22 01/10/00, you wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:26:25 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
>
> >Anyway, there was some kind of discussion on how to name a European
> >Union-TLD. EUR was also discussed but dismissed because the EU 
> bureaucracy wants
> >to establish .eu under ccTLD-regime and that, by tradition, requires
> >two-letter codes (guess why they want to have a ccTLD - just have a look 
> at GAC's
> >statement with regard to the final authority over ccTLDs). .ue was also
> >proposed (Union d'Europe/Unione Europea, if I recall it right). The
> >representatives of "roman" (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) 
> countries claimed to
> >have more native speakers on their side who say "UE" than the English/German
> >part has for "EU"... Germans would have been best off anyway because we may
> >say "Europäische Union" as well as "Union von Europa" (just in case it would
> >have happened ;-)
>
>Anyway, "Europa" or "Europe" is the name of the continent in all
>countries, including "roman" ones, so .eu seems natural to everyone,
>while .ue does not. (But it is true that "UE" is the name of the union
>in "roman" countries).
>
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