7 ms·

> Is there any chance that the requirements for a TLD can change in the future and revoke my ability to own it? yes, see the EU commission forcing new rules on

• hbn 5y ago
  Seems like this is the only case of this happening. [1]Wikipedia: > British citizens had their .eu domains suspended on January 1, 2021 for three months and then deleted on March 1, 2021 after a grace period to allow EU/EEA citizens to update the registration information to show their non-UK address. This is the first case of its kind where an institution managing an internet Top-level domain has withdrawn domains en masse for an entire country. However, this seems like it wasn't actually a change in domain registration requirements. It was the fact that the peoples' citizenship status was changed. The original requirements[2] of .eu domains from launch was it was only for EU citizens, so it was really just keeping in line with its original requirements. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu [2] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_06_476 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_06_...
  • blibble 5y ago
    it's fair enough to prevent new registrations, or even renewals but they deleted domains people had legitimately purchased prior to usual expiry (in violation of existing contracts with the registrants) standard EU commission pettiness (meanwhile even the soviet union's .su is still usable)