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Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
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Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#42So this effectively means don't register a .eu domain if there's any discussion in your country about an *EXIT?
don't register an eu domain at all - who knows if eu will exist in near future? edit: eu was founded in 1993. it's just around 26 years old, but already has a lot of problems.
If you're a startup, this is bikeshedding on par with worrying about the heat death of the Universe.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#43Anyone know if British trademarks will be valid in the EU post-Brexit? If not, this will open up quite a big risk for domain hijackings.
An EU trademark would not be valid in the UK and companies would have to apply separately for an UK trademark. The way it works usually (IIRC) is that while the EU trademark is valid in the entire EU, it isn't an actual trademark in each country and in case the EU trademark is invalidated you have to apply for a trademark in each country and each country can challenge your trademark by their laws. I would then assume…
In other words, easy pickings for anyone who wants to get hold of email domains with good domain rep in order to use them for spamming.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#44Brexit notice from EURid the domain name registry that operates the .eu top-level domain: https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit- notice/
There's a stray space in your link.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#45This news is written in a really weird way, and I can't believe that it is not intentional. Of course, if the commission is going to do it, it will explain why it is required, what it is going to happen, and how is it going to happen and they will make sure nobody is harmed because of this transition. Don't be naive!
You may be right, but, the more Brexit news I hear, and the more I read, the more I get the feeling that parts of Europe and the EC are making efforts to make an example of Britain.
It may be that the news is following a certain rhetoric, but, it seems clear that the likes of Merkel intend to do this, she's all but said as much.
My point here is that when one person is telling you they want to do harm, people will take to believing it when it's presented elsewhere.
My problem with news like this, is that I see people interpreting it as "look, EC is evil and trying to screw us, we really should leave". Really, I think we should see it as, "we're leaving the EU, they're afraid others will do the same and want to use us as a deterrent".
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The CBS is not European. In fact if you visit http://play.it from Europe, you're in for a surprise.
> The CBS is not European. In fact if you visit http://play.it from Europe, you're in for a surprise. Registrant Organization: MarkMonitor International Limited Address: The Johnson Building 77 Hatton Garden London EC1N 8JS GB Created: 2012-10-24 21:48:52 Last Update: 2016-08-25 19:46:3
London? That won't be Europe after Brexit. Seems to me like a lot of people will be in for a surprise.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#47It will be painful for some but let's be honest, who here has seen many high profile .EU domains floating around?
For what it's worth, here are the unique .eu domains linked to on HN during the last two weeks, along with an example HN page:
europa.eu (the most often posted .eu domain) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979027 . This is the "Official website of the European Union"
sifted.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958342 . This is "The new media platform backed by the Financial Times".
juliareda.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943510 . This is the site of a Member of the European Parliament from Germany, who is also a member of the Pirate Party Germany.
jsconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912059 . "JSConf EU is the labour-of-love conference for the JavaScript community in Europe"
elixirconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865236 . "ElixirConf EU is the premiere Elixir conference in Europe"
5gobservatory.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980769 . This is an organization directed by the European Commission.
This was all done manually. Someone else might automate the task.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The CBS is not European. In fact if you visit http://play.it from Europe, you're in for a surprise.
> The CBS is not European. In fact if you visit http://play.it from Europe, you're in for a surprise. Registrant Organization: MarkMonitor International Limited Address: The Johnson Building 77 Hatton Garden London EC1N 8JS GB Created: 2012-10-24 21:48:52 Last Update: 2016-08-25 19:46:3
The "surprise" in this case is play.it forwards you to radio.com which displays "This site isn't currently available in the EU"
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
An EU trademark would not be valid in the UK and companies would have to apply separately for an UK trademark. The way it works usually (IIRC) is that while the EU trademark is valid in the entire EU, it isn't an actual trademark in each country and in case the EU trademark is invalidated you have to apply for a trademark in each country and each country can challenge your trademark by their laws. I would then assume…
In other words, easy pickings for anyone who wants to get hold of email domains with good domain rep in order to use them for spamming.
It's quite worrying for security; imagine if some API used by some slightly older code uses an .eu, now someone can go but that domain, issue a trusted certificate and hijack the system using it.
Of course the risk is no greater than usual but the same could apply for fraudulent sites popping up.
Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
#50Brexit notice from EURid the domain name registry that operates the .eu top-level domain: https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit- notice/
> https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit- notice/
Try https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
to avoid a 404