Let me guess Eurid said you do that and we will sue.
Eurocrats double down on .eu Brexit boot-out
Eurocrats have reiterated that UK citizens will not be allowed to own .eu domain names following Brexit, releasing proposed new rules that open up the registry while at the same time clamping down on Brits. Last month, the European Commission unexpectedly announced that UK-based owners of .eu domains would not have their .eu …
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Saturday 28th April 2018 10:11 GMT Nick Kew
Re: Occam's
Occam can do better than that. Was it really so hard to foresee that particular restriction being lifted?
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Saturday 28th April 2018 19:13 GMT Roland6
Re: In Next Month's News
>I love upsetting remoaners. They give me so much joy, so much feedback..
If it wasn't for this comment, I could have thought you liked winding ardent Brexiteers up :)
My father-in law would have believed your comment and then gone on and on about the idiotic EU and how it has it in for the UK... :)
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Monday 30th April 2018 12:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: In Next Month's News
"I love upsetting remoaners. They give me so much joy, so much feedback.. every downvote is a thumbs-up!"
Ah, the old "by downvoting me I win" ploy. Truly, you *are* a genius that has outfoxed us "remoaners"!
"I like to leave them confused over whether to downvote or upvote, or not. What a dilema! [sic]"
Seriously, this comes across as something only a fourteen-year-old would-be troll with a sadly inflated sense of their own cleverness could convince themselves of.
The only credit I might have given for your adolescent ramblings would be if they were a ploy to make "Leave" voters look stupid, but even then I'd think you'd pushed it a bit too far for plausibility.
Then again...
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Saturday 28th April 2018 19:17 GMT Roland6
So perhaps some wise guy marketeer got to the EU and explained that to most people (outside of the EU) .eu = europe
So the EU could provide the first step to enlargement by allowing all EUropeans to use the .eu gTLD, only change the conditions of usage: domain owner agrees to be governed by EU laws on website content and all transactions passing through the website...
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Friday 27th April 2018 22:18 GMT The Nazz
What's the difference?
Personally, i don't see the differentiation between being eligible for a eu. or a nyc. and the condition that you must reside in the latter.
If people apply for a eu. domain because they wish to have a presence and do business there, surely the same argument applies equally to .nyc?
Quite why anyone should want a number of the expanded domain names remains to be seen but perhaps time, and money, will tell as to when the .nyc will be open to everyone.
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Friday 27th April 2018 22:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: What's the difference?
While you probably only want a .eu if you have or intend to have some sort of business connection with the eu, maybe you want it so you can register adi.eu or some other "clever" URL (though whois says it is taken, maybe there are some other French words that are available)
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Saturday 28th April 2018 22:36 GMT doublelayer
Re: What's the difference?
I just want pretty much all of those annoying new TLDs to go away. We need neither .accountant nor .accountants, and ICANN was clearly intending a truly massive joke when they put both of those up. Do they really expect that to end well? And what do they expect us to put in the TLD .airforce. I hate to break it to them, but none of us citizens own an airforce, even for those who have private jets and enjoy the humor. I'm going to state now that I will consider any website under .associates to be so dodgy as to be immediately blacklisted without a visit. .attorney is similarly weird, and of course there's also .law, .lawyer, and .legal. Thanks mates. Then they do the same singular-plural thing with .auto and .autos, when of course they have .car *and* .cars. And that's just the As. I haven't even checked out the rest of the alphabet for my own sanity. Kill them now!
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Saturday 28th April 2018 22:58 GMT randomdomainer
Re: What's the difference?
The .NYC gTLD is actually closer to being a real ccTLD than .EU. The reason is that it has a strong geographically defined market. New York also has a very strong brand and the people there have a strong sense of being New Yorkers. By comparison, the market for the .EU is really quite nebulous and, as has been seen, is vulnerable to having its policy decided by brainfart. The other unusual thing is that .EU is actually closer to being a generic gTLD because of the wide variation of languages and regions. Ask someone in the EU what nationality they are and they are unlikely to say that they are European.
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Saturday 28th April 2018 11:28 GMT Voland's right hand
Norms of the internet
Not only would killing off 300,000 domains (actually 318,482) go against the long-held norms of the internet,
Shall I provide with a reference about the mass domain murders after the dissolution of su and yu as well as the various mass domain graves dug by the registries succeeding countries? Or the various volte-face "we allow external"/"we do not allow external" which have at some time happened to half of the small registries around the Pacific like .cx?
There is a long history of similar incidents some of them even more idiotic than the .eu one.
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Saturday 28th April 2018 13:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
The article is at odds with the infographic
> On Friday, the same idiocrats found a way to backtrack while not losing face: by deciding to open up the .eu registry to anyone who wants a .eu domain, regardless of where they live.
Not 'anyone' according to the infographic but only those from the EU/EEA. The bit that has changed is that they can now reside/be based anywhere in the world.