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Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:06 AM UTC

C1sc0cat wrote: post #32

Not sure I have ever seen a company use a .eu domain - which I suspect was set up as a vanity project by the eu.

Probably for the same reason I don't use the .uk aliases I own.

They confuse people, .com, people can deal with, .co.uk people can deal with, but older and non-technical people can struggle with what is out of the norm (although not new).

These people, unlike us techies aren't visiting .io domains or .xyx domains.

When I've tried to use .uk sufficient people have understood it to mean .co.uk that is was a problem.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by SeaSeaRider » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:09 AM UTC

scaryclam wrote: post #25

matthewmacleod wrote: post #10

Honestly my bigger concern is what AWS is going to call eu-west-2 now… It should generally have been expected that this would happen in line with the rules. Bit silly, but there we go. Proxy registrants are available.

The eu part of the aws naming means Europe, not the European union.

Amazing how many people don’t understand the difference!

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by afandian » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:10 AM UTC

anfilt wrote: post #12

Pretty petty if you ask me. ICANN generally lets things be grandfathered in. However, it is a country code domain so they can administer it how they want.

The UK's conduct has been appalling. I am deeply ashamed about how my government has conducted itself, and represented the people of the UK. I think the EU's response has been restrained if anything.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by growlist » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #45

stunt wrote: post #36

This 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 ta…

I wonder whether any other trading union in the world would act in such a tyrannical way should one of its members decide it's had enough. Hell hath no fury like the EU spurned. Reminds me of the Soviet union: 'our socialist utopia is so fantastic that we have to shoot anyone that tries to leave'.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by benj111 » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #45

stunt wrote: post #36

This 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 ta…

Britain is leaving, The EU is now acting in its best interests.

I'm not sure you can read any more into it than that. Yes this does seem unreasonable, I can't think of any other examples where they're being unreasonable though?

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by tebs1200 » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:12 AM UTC

duiker101 wrote: post #23

tehlike wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I mean, looking at the state of things I'd say it's more likely the US will be annexed by Russia before the EU goes away.

Oh - I thought that had already happened.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by SeaSeaRider » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:12 AM UTC

This would be an unhinged move; essentially deleting domains for political reasons. Any business doing due-diligence would be forced to move from their .eu domain.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by erinnh » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #45

stunt wrote: post #36

This 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 ta…

I see it more as "UK is leaving the EU, so they're losing all their benefits, unless specifically negotiated for".

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by SeaSeaRider » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

afandian wrote: post #53

anfilt wrote: post #12

Pretty petty if you ask me. ICANN generally lets things be grandfathered in. However, it is a country code domain so they can administer it how they want.

The UK's conduct has been appalling. I am deeply ashamed about how my government has conducted itself, and represented the people of the UK. I think the EU's response has been restrained if anything.

Threatening to delete domains for political reasons is “restrained”? I hate brexit probably as much as everyone here, but the institution of the EU has not come out of this any better than the Tory government.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by SeaSeaRider » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 10:18 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #45

stunt wrote: post #36

This 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 ta…

The EU acting in a beligerent way is an admittance of weakness. If they were powerful then they we would let the UK leave with no problems.