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A domain name is intended to represent something. It shows up in identifiers and addresses such as the Uniform Resource Locator and email addresses. It's better

A domain name is intended to represent something. It shows up in identifiers and addresses such as the Uniform Resource Locator and email addresses. It's better for basically-everyone-in-the-world if that representation and those addresses have a measure of stability. If it's not actively "spiteful" to impair stability, when the only cost is an ever-so-modest impact to brand purity, then at the very least it's a short-sighted way to cause a deadweight economic loss to humanity. I guess that's just what rule-by-bureaucracy does, though, including EU bureaucracy: every day, they make decisions that affect people, always bringing the greatest possible reverence for the rules, and paying as little regard as possible to the price of the consequences of their decisions, which are fundamentally someone else's problem.

brnt 4y ago
You still don't get what Brexit exactly is, it looks like. It was a one sided drastic withdrawal from any and all EU institutions, and yes, that includes the TLD. Amazing how you would think that your particular field of work would be excepted.
- hunterb123 4y ago
  > it was a one sided drastic withdrawal a couple of opinionated words there that you didn't support. drastic for sure is false as it took quite awhile to go through, much longer than the merger in fact. For my opinionated sentence I will say... Britain is better off, the EU is an abomination.
  - d1sxeyes 4y ago
    I don't think there are any opinionated words there. The definition of 'drastic' does not necessarily mean quick (although it can). Definitions of drastic include (collected variously from Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries): 'having very noticeable effects', 'likely to have a strong or far-reaching effect', and 'extreme in effect [...]'. I think Brexit fits this definition. With regards to your opinionated sentence, you are entitled to your opinion that the EU is an 'abomination', although it is just an opinion without any support, and it's provably incorrect that Britain 'IS' better off (although an argument can be made that the potential long term benefits of Brexit may outweigh the current short term negative impact, it's far from being certain, and definitely should not be discussed in the present tense).
- necovek 4y ago
  What about a UK person who voted "no" to Brexit and who might have been a proud holder of their personal .eu domain for a dozen years? I guess the point is that one should only go with commercial domain names, and never with political ones (which all country code TLDs are by definition).
  - brnt 4y ago
    > What about a UK person who voted "no" The nature of democracy is that you don't always get your way. Barnier kept the door open for all kinds of intermediate levels of association, but the British delegation kept saying no and pushing for hard Brexit. Well, that's what they got.
Gordonjcp 4y ago
Think of it as like a visa. If your visa runs out, you no longer have the right to be in the country you're in, and you need to leave. You don't have to go home - you can go to another country with different requirements - but you can't stay. The UK government fucked everyone over with Brexit, largely because they didn't care to think about the consequences.
- fennecfoxen 4y ago
  > Think of it as like a visa. Yes! A visa! Thank you! The strident heart and soul of the inhuman, inhumane, soulless bureaucracy. It is exactly like that. This isn't exactly something to be lauded or celebrated! Have you ever dealt with having a visa? Have you ever been impacted by the uncertainty and confusion of the nation you are living in, changing its rules about your visa? Do you have any concept at all of the economic and the humanitarian impact of the bureaucracy's machinations around and involving visas? Even aside from the worst of that, have you ever abandoned a job and friends and the life you were trying to build somewhere, because someone changed the rules about visas? I liked that job, sir. Oh, let me tell you about visas! I will tell you about them all day long. But, ah — I think it was a more flattering to the decision-makers when we were just talking about the cost of broken URLs and email addresses.
  - Terretta 4y ago
    Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all? I’d argue visas have real value in helping to manage that problem, and are, therefore, neither inhuman nor inhumane. And then yes, like visa recognition agreements, if your country withdraws from a visa accord or economic region, the host country has no obligation to keep you credentialed, or domained. If unhappy about such thing, a more effective path is to activate compatriots against the withdrawal, rather than fuss at the host zone.
    - fennecfoxen 4y ago
      > Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all? My friend, if these systems were just about aligning the incentives for workers and benefits and taxes, and otherwise tried to be understanding about human foibles, then people wouldn't point to immigration systems around the world as a Kafkaesque nightmare. Just to pick an example — chosen for my familiarity, wholly outside of and unrelated to Brexit — the UK's Windrush scandal involved the bureaucracy actively destroying old records of immigration from British overseas possessions (particularly the Caribbean), then deciding years later to go after people who had been living in the country for decades — demanding they supply exhaustive documentation of their legal immigration, and their life and activities in the intervening time. Rest assured that this was a fully adversarial process! They did not offer to help anyone so affected gather these documents, or to make their case. And later, in another unrelated scandal, the Home Office decided to react to an English-examination cheating scandal by analyzing everyone's examination results with some opaque computerized process, using the results to declare something like 97% of them as invalid cheaters — and sending nastygrams to about 9,700 university students, calling them dirty cheaters and demanding they leave country. Many of them did, and they forcibly removed others. Notably, they did not ask for them to re-sit the exam. They did not care about the lives ruined. Of course the matter of the .eu domain is absolutely nothing compared to the daily nightmare that is "visas," but the same devotion to rules and insensitivity to the costs of policy runs through the matter. They could have grandfathered in existing domains, at least a little bit longer. I know that if I had a website and I had to move domains, I would want to run web and email forwarding for more than one year. If they wanted to be particular about just having the forwarding, they could have audited the sites to make sure that they were just redirects, and charged for the privilege. They didn't. There's no sane reason that couldn't happen except to preserve The Rules — but these rules simply are not a valuable end in and of themselves, despite the laud and honor they have received in this thread.
talideon 4y ago
No, you left the club. Once you leave the club, you're not entitled to the benefits. You're expecting the UK to be treated specially.

brnt 4y ago

You still don't get what Brexit exactly is, it looks like. It was a one sided drastic withdrawal from any and all EU institutions, and yes, that includes the TLD. Amazing how you would think that your particular field of work would be excepted.

hunterb123 4y ago
> it was a one sided drastic withdrawal a couple of opinionated words there that you didn't support. drastic for sure is false as it took quite awhile to go through, much longer than the merger in fact. For my opinionated sentence I will say... Britain is better off, the EU is an abomination.
- d1sxeyes 4y ago
  I don't think there are any opinionated words there. The definition of 'drastic' does not necessarily mean quick (although it can). Definitions of drastic include (collected variously from Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries): 'having very noticeable effects', 'likely to have a strong or far-reaching effect', and 'extreme in effect [...]'. I think Brexit fits this definition. With regards to your opinionated sentence, you are entitled to your opinion that the EU is an 'abomination', although it is just an opinion without any support, and it's provably incorrect that Britain 'IS' better off (although an argument can be made that the potential long term benefits of Brexit may outweigh the current short term negative impact, it's far from being certain, and definitely should not be discussed in the present tense).
necovek 4y ago
What about a UK person who voted "no" to Brexit and who might have been a proud holder of their personal .eu domain for a dozen years? I guess the point is that one should only go with commercial domain names, and never with political ones (which all country code TLDs are by definition).
- brnt 4y ago
  > What about a UK person who voted "no" The nature of democracy is that you don't always get your way. Barnier kept the door open for all kinds of intermediate levels of association, but the British delegation kept saying no and pushing for hard Brexit. Well, that's what they got.

Gordonjcp 4y ago

Think of it as like a visa. If your visa runs out, you no longer have the right to be in the country you're in, and you need to leave. You don't have to go home - you can go to another country with different requirements - but you can't stay. The UK government fucked everyone over with Brexit, largely because they didn't care to think about the consequences.

fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Think of it as like a visa. Yes! A visa! Thank you! The strident heart and soul of the inhuman, inhumane, soulless bureaucracy. It is exactly like that. This isn't exactly something to be lauded or celebrated! Have you ever dealt with having a visa? Have you ever been impacted by the uncertainty and confusion of the nation you are living in, changing its rules about your visa? Do you have any concept at all of the economic and the humanitarian impact of the bureaucracy's machinations around and involving visas? Even aside from the worst of that, have you ever abandoned a job and friends and the life you were trying to build somewhere, because someone changed the rules about visas? I liked that job, sir. Oh, let me tell you about visas! I will tell you about them all day long. But, ah — I think it was a more flattering to the decision-makers when we were just talking about the cost of broken URLs and email addresses.
- Terretta 4y ago
  Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all? I’d argue visas have real value in helping to manage that problem, and are, therefore, neither inhuman nor inhumane. And then yes, like visa recognition agreements, if your country withdraws from a visa accord or economic region, the host country has no obligation to keep you credentialed, or domained. If unhappy about such thing, a more effective path is to activate compatriots against the withdrawal, rather than fuss at the host zone.
  - fennecfoxen 4y ago
    > Should one live in a high tax high social safety net country while paying tax to a low tax low social safety net country or not paying tax at all? My friend, if these systems were just about aligning the incentives for workers and benefits and taxes, and otherwise tried to be understanding about human foibles, then people wouldn't point to immigration systems around the world as a Kafkaesque nightmare. Just to pick an example — chosen for my familiarity, wholly outside of and unrelated to Brexit — the UK's Windrush scandal involved the bureaucracy actively destroying old records of immigration from British overseas possessions (particularly the Caribbean), then deciding years later to go after people who had been living in the country for decades — demanding they supply exhaustive documentation of their legal immigration, and their life and activities in the intervening time. Rest assured that this was a fully adversarial process! They did not offer to help anyone so affected gather these documents, or to make their case. And later, in another unrelated scandal, the Home Office decided to react to an English-examination cheating scandal by analyzing everyone's examination results with some opaque computerized process, using the results to declare something like 97% of them as invalid cheaters — and sending nastygrams to about 9,700 university students, calling them dirty cheaters and demanding they leave country. Many of them did, and they forcibly removed others. Notably, they did not ask for them to re-sit the exam. They did not care about the lives ruined. Of course the matter of the .eu domain is absolutely nothing compared to the daily nightmare that is "visas," but the same devotion to rules and insensitivity to the costs of policy runs through the matter. They could have grandfathered in existing domains, at least a little bit longer. I know that if I had a website and I had to move domains, I would want to run web and email forwarding for more than one year. If they wanted to be particular about just having the forwarding, they could have audited the sites to make sure that they were just redirects, and charged for the privilege. They didn't. There's no sane reason that couldn't happen except to preserve The Rules — but these rules simply are not a valuable end in and of themselves, despite the laud and honor they have received in this thread.

talideon 4y ago

No, you left the club. Once you leave the club, you're not entitled to the benefits. You're expecting the UK to be treated specially.