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For the same reason not every US citizen is entitled to a .gov address?

• amadeuspagel 4y ago
  .gov is intended to signify offical US government websites. .eu domains can be registered by anyone.
  • arlort 4y ago
    .europa.eu is the closest equivalent to .gov It's the base url used by all EU institutions
    • capableweb 4y ago
      europa.eu is a domain, .eu is the TLD. There is no TLD equivalent of .gov for Europe. European agencies use bunch of different domains, not all of them are a subdomain under europa.eu, although many of them are under that one. You can see some examples of organizations/agencies that are not here: https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/institutions-and-bodies-profiles_en https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/ins...
      • arlort 4y ago
        > There is no TLD equivalent of .gov for Europe Which is why I said: > is the closest equivalent Also it's a distinction without a difference in the context of the discussion, a tld is just another kind of domain. In the same way .gov subdomains are reserved for US government and signify to the users that the content of the page has official value subdomains of .europa.eu are reserved for EU institutions and agencies The same way it'd not be smart for the US government to give out john.smith@gov email addresses it'd not be particularly clever for the EU to give out francois.martin@europa.eu And no, all official agencies and institutions use .europa.eu subdomains, the only exception in that page seem to be other bodies such as research groups which are not official branches of the EU
  • googlryas 4y ago
    Then make a citizen.eu site or something like that and hand out addresses!