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This is unbelievably petty and spiteful. The least they could do is grandfather in existing registrants and only enforce these requirements on transfer. I don'
by hanoz 6y ago
This is unbelievably petty and spiteful. The least they could do is grandfather in existing registrants and only enforce these requirements on transfer.
I don't suppose many of their EU registrants realise they'd have to forfeit their domains if they ever decided to emigrate.
- cure 6y ago> I don't suppose many of their EU registrants realise they'd have to forfeit their domains if they ever decided to emigrate. That's false. EU citizens can own .eu domain names, regardless of where they live.
- hanoz 6y agoNot everyone resident in the EU is an EU citizen, and not every other country allows dual citizenship.
- berdario 6y agoIt's false, but there's confusion around it because the rules actually changed in October 2019 https://eurid.eu/en/news/new-eligibility-criteria/ https://eurid.eu/en/news/new-eligibility-criteria/ before, it was actually true
- MichaelZuo 6y agoIs there a database of EU regulations that is version controlled? i.e. so that one can know what all the rules were at a given point in time?
- DrJaws 6y agoyou won't forfeit the domain if you are a EU citizen no matter where you emigrate. The domains are for residents on the EU or EU citizens. That were the rules when people registered them. As UK left the block and are not EU citizens, it's not spiteful nor petty, just the rules they accepted when they decided to register the domains
- hanoz 6y agoYou will if you take up citizenship in a country which doesn't allow dual nationality, or, more commonly, you will if you're an EU resident who doesn't have EU citizenship. It's a bad enough rule to apply to individuals, but to apply it on mass to people, probably most of whom didn't actually want to leave, of course is petty and spiteful. You can be on either side of the Brexit debate and see that. Where's the good will?
- ouid 6y agoI imagine it is a question of applicable law. If the EU is not in a position to regulate the people in charge of those domains, I can understand why they would not want to give the impression that they are "EU" domains.
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 6y agoWouldn't be much point in having the top domain if it has zero relation to EU?
- sime2009 6y agoThe Brexit vote was over 4 years ago. There was even a 1 year extension to the withdrawal period bringing the deadline up to end 2020. How much more warning and time did people need? They've literally had 4 and half years of warning already.