Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

#1

Post by vinnyglennon » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 10:25 PM UTC

Re: Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

#2

Post by yani » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 6:44 AM UTC

This opens the path for a proxy that will register the domains for such companies and indivisuals. Oh wait such proxy companies already exist.

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Post by t0astbread » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 6:50 AM UTC

So this effectively means don't register a .eu domain if there's any discussion in your country about an *EXIT?

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Post by writepub » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

There are many many proxy registration methods that allow one to buy a domain in any country, regardless of residency.

For instance, the .it domain is intended for Italian residents, but play.it , a CBS owned radio company operates with full complaince.

This is not a loss for Brits, but a breach of trust by the .eu registrar.

Lesson learnt: never register with .eu domain, for their non-business friendly heavy handedness

#5

Post by tehlike » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

t0astbread wrote: post #3

So 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.

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Post by mothsonasloth » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 8:14 AM UTC

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 8:18 AM UTC

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?

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Post by DomreiRoam » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 8:18 AM UTC

Brexit notice from EURid the domain name registry that operates the .eu top-level domain:

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Post by londons_explore » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

Are they just angling for everyone with a British postal addrrss to Pay a transfer fee?

#10

Post by matthewmacleod » Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 8:25 AM UTC

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.