> 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

> 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