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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

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Post by zaarn »

ahje wrote: post #28

Anyone 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 that with brexit, since UK is no longer part of the EU, the EU trademark isn't revoked but seizes to be valid.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by pgc »

smcl wrote: post #27
pgc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what Europe would look like without the EU. I'd say in the coming years the stability of it will be tested thoroughly. The countries that are calling the shots (namely France and Germany and their lapdogs) will be tested, too.

OK I'll bite - who are their "lapdogs"

Countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria...

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by stunt »

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!

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by philfrasty »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #6

It will be painful for some but let's be honest, who here has seen many high profile .EU domains floating around?

Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by cabalamat »

cm2187 wrote: post #29
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.

Don’t know why you are getting downvoted, eu-hostile populist parties are on the rise everywhere in Europe. If your business depends critically on a domain, I think not relying on a .eu domain is a common sense precaution to take. And it doesn’t matter what the next election polls are. You are still going to depend on your domain in 10 or 15 years.

> eu-hostile populist parties are on the rise everywhere in Europe

Populist parties are on the rise, and many of them have made anti-EU noises in the past. However, with Brexit, they've got very quiet about leaving the EU.

If Brexit does go ahead, I expect it will be sufficiently unpleasant that no-one else will want to leave.

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by jarfil »

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.

I think it's mostly being used by European institutions, but there are notable exceptions like http://leave.eu a pro-Brexit campaign which would lose its domain (the irony).

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

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Post by Piskvorrr »

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.

I see a fair number of them - mostly by mid-sized European manufacturing companies. The rationale seems to be "Where's sprockets.at? Who knows? (Austria btw) sprockets.eu? Probably in the EU." Usually there's a local country domain as well, with one of them being canonical.
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