330K .eu doms to be cancelled as UK pulls out of EU

[jmcc]

The European Commission has announced that UK residents will no longer be able to register .eu domain names or renew existing domain names after Brexit.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/publicati...nited-kingdom-and-eu-rules-eu-domain-names_en

Approximately 320K domain names will be cancelled. This is not as bad as it sounds as most of the UK registrations are probably owned by non-EU warehousers using UK front companies rather than by UK residents. In any case, it is a loss of approximately 10% of .eu domain names for the ccTLD.

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

Euro idiocrats backtrack on plan to kill off Brits' 300,000 .eu domains
Instead of booting out Brexit Britain, domain-name registry will be opened to everyone

Some pro-Brexit/pro-EUnuch friendly comments there. Some more reasoned.

Regards...jmcc

 

[cooljub]

Euro idiocrats backtrack on plan to kill off Brits' 300,000 .eu domains
Instead of booting out Brexit Britain, domain-name registry will be opened to everyone

Corrected now Kate:
"Correction: An earlier version of this story concluded that people in the UK would, post-Brexit, be able to own .eu domains as registration would be opened up to anyone worldwide. This was incorrect. We're happy to clarify that, from next year, only EU citizens, regardless of where they live, will be able to own .eu domain names."

 

[jmcc]

Corrected now Kate:
"Correction: An earlier version of this story concluded that people in the UK would, post-Brexit, be able to own .eu domains as registration would be opened up to anyone worldwide. This was incorrect. We're happy to clarify that, from next year, only EU citizens, regardless of where they live, will be able to own .eu domain names."

Well they already tried that with the land rush.

Regards...jmcc

 

[vincenzo]

any update on this since 'the agreement' on 24th December?