On 29 Apr 2018, at 17:47, Gordon Lennox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My attention was drawn to this new policy from Brussels:
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/eu_dumps_300000_ukowned_domains_into_brexit_bin/
>
> Of interest to people involved with domain names, people who have names
> registered under EU or who are still thinking about it and who are resident
> in the UK or thinking about moving there? Nationality does not count:
> residence does.
First off Gordon, it’s The Register - not exactly a reliable source of
information.
Second, there’s a more recent article on the same site saying what was proposed
in the above article has been withdrawn:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/27/dot_eu_domains_brexit_uk/
That later article is headlined: "Euro idiocrats backtrack on plan to kill off
Brits' 300,000 .eu domains”
In short, nothing to see here - move along.
Now there might be a higher-level issue about eligibility criteria for .eu
domain names and oversight of the .eu registry’s policy-making. Which might not
matter to people living on a big island in the North Sea because it’ll be
outside the EU in a year or so. Allegedly.
