If your country elects to leave the EU or possibly just gets into a spat with it, you will have to abandon your domain name and thus all accumulated pagerank, external links, email addresses on business cards etc. Although the EU could easily just block registration of new domains to non-EU homed businesses, they are choosing to go much further and take away existing domain names that are live.
This is entirely consistent with the EU's behaviour in other areas - use whatever bureaucratic mechanisms it has at its disposal to cause as much annoyance or chaos as possible to any country that decides to leave, in the hope of dissuading the others.
You HAVE to reside in the EU, to use the tld .eu. its that simple. Its not nefarious.
The law was created a long time ago (The UK had input) and was perfectly fine up till the part where the UK decided to leave the EU. The UK is allowed to leave (as much as people wish it didnt) but the UK is not allowed to get a free pass on law just because it cant be arsed dealing with legislation.
That very tld legislation requires people to be resident of the EU and is being enforced as per the original TLD agreement, and you think that the EU is causing "Chaos and confusion"?????? just by enforcing their law that the UK no longer wants to be part of?
Im sure no one wants to deal with the paperwork of 300K sites changing hands etc, but thats the law.
Its so arrogant to think that Britain is going to get the benefits of the EU while leaving the EU. I ask, on what planet would that happen?
I just wish whingers would stop blaming the EU, for the results and "chaos" of the UKs decisions that it took all by itself. Beyond lame.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 15.2 ms ] threadIf your country elects to leave the EU or possibly just gets into a spat with it, you will have to abandon your domain name and thus all accumulated pagerank, external links, email addresses on business cards etc. Although the EU could easily just block registration of new domains to non-EU homed businesses, they are choosing to go much further and take away existing domain names that are live.
This is entirely consistent with the EU's behaviour in other areas - use whatever bureaucratic mechanisms it has at its disposal to cause as much annoyance or chaos as possible to any country that decides to leave, in the hope of dissuading the others.
The law was created a long time ago (The UK had input) and was perfectly fine up till the part where the UK decided to leave the EU. The UK is allowed to leave (as much as people wish it didnt) but the UK is not allowed to get a free pass on law just because it cant be arsed dealing with legislation.
That very tld legislation requires people to be resident of the EU and is being enforced as per the original TLD agreement, and you think that the EU is causing "Chaos and confusion"?????? just by enforcing their law that the UK no longer wants to be part of?
Im sure no one wants to deal with the paperwork of 300K sites changing hands etc, but thats the law.
Its so arrogant to think that Britain is going to get the benefits of the EU while leaving the EU. I ask, on what planet would that happen?
I just wish whingers would stop blaming the EU, for the results and "chaos" of the UKs decisions that it took all by itself. Beyond lame.