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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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  1. kain preacher

    Let me guess Eurid said you do that and we will sue.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Or a Pole or an Irishman in the UK, with an EU domain sues them for screwing their business.

      1. Phil O'Sophical Silver badge

        Or it dawned on on the Eurocrats that one approach would cost them money, and the other could make them more money...

        1. AMBxx Silver badge

          Or they realised that very few of them are actually being used rather than just being registered to stop squatters.

          Even EU fanbois at the BBC have a redirect to co.uk.

          1. randomdomainer

            There are more .EU domain names that redirect than there are active .EU websites. It really isn't a first choice TLD for people registering their domain names. If anything, it has become a brand protection TLD.

  2. Frank Zuiderduin

    Occam's

    Two different groups reaching different conclusions is far more likely than anything else. I mean, who ever heard of the EC backtracking on a crazy decision?

    1. Nick Kew
  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    So it's not adi.eu but thank.eu then.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      I see what eu did there.

      1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
        Happy

        OK, OK. Don't ram it home.

  4. LeeH

    In Next Month's News

    Idiocrats tell the UK that Brexit must have consequences and, as such, .eu registrations remain closed to UK nationals for 10 years post Brexit despite now being open to everyone else. "There. That'll teach 'em!" an idiocrat was overheard saying.

    1. LeeH

      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!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: In Next Month's News

        have another downvote then....

        1. LeeH

          Re: In Next Month's News

          @AC Beautiful! Thank you!

          P.S I like to leave them confused over whether to downvote or upvote, or not. What a dilema!

          1. Jamie Jones Silver badge

            Re: In Next Month's News

            "P.S I like to leave them confused over whether to downvote or upvote, or not. What a dilema!"

            An overinflated view of your own importance and relevence to the rest of the world... Just like the view you and your cronies have about jolly old england!

          2. Teiwaz

            Re: In Next Month's News

            I like to leave them confused over whether to downvote or upvote, or not. What a dilema!

            No confusion, repetitive use of tired old phrases like remoaner (or any trite distortion of names of former politicians) automatically get a downvote.

      2. Lars Silver badge
        Happy

        Re: In Next Month's News

        "I love upsetting remoaners.".

        With what?

        1. LeeH

          Re: In Next Month's News

          @Lars: Decisions. They are not very good at them.

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: In Next Month's News

            Wull which member of three cabinet are then? And of that subset who might possibly do so, which of them might actually put a coherent argument for the decision (or against)? Precious few methinks.

      3. Roland6 Silver badge

        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... :)

        1. Dodgy Geezer Silver badge

          Re: In Next Month's News

          Well, it is on record as saying that we must be punished.....

          1. YetAnotherLocksmith Silver badge

            Re: In Next Month's News

            If we don't punish stupidity though, where will that leave evolution?

            1. Tom 38

              Re: In Next Month's News

              Don't feed it or it will keep coming back.

      4. Hollerithevo

        Re: In Next Month's News

        @LeeH, I am a Remainer who doesn't moan, I just await the verdict of history. Let's check in and compare notes to see how the UK is doing by, oh, 2030.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: In Next Month's News

          @Hollerithevo; "I just await the verdict of history."

          I'd be happier to do that if I wasn't going to be caught up in the consequences as well.

      5. Anonymous Coward
        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...

  5. Lars Silver badge
    Happy

    "what on earth is going on within the European Commission when it can emit two directly contradictory statements within a month of each other.".

    Influenced by Davis perhaps.

    1. TRT Silver badge

      Rudd... er... less.

      1. david bates

        Unlikely.

        Knowledge of domains, URLs and an inkling of how the internet works suggests this way, way above Ambers paygrade.

        1. TRT Silver badge

          Knowledge of domains...

          True, but she's a master of self-contradiction and U-turning - those are transferrable skills.

          1. TRT Silver badge

            Re: Knowledge of domains...

            And now she's gone.

  6. Blockchain commentard

    Or someone pointed out .eu was for Europe not the EU?

    1. Roml0k

      > Or someone pointed out .eu was for Europe not the EU?

      Judging by this latest proposal, it seems more like .eu is for Eurovision.

    2. randomdomainer

      .eu was for the European Union rather than Europe.

      1. Roland6 Silver badge

        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...

      2. Daniel von Asmuth

        .EU ! 4 U

        This will affect only a few British citizens and companies. A far greater effect will be when the former indenpendent nations of .IT, .FR, .DE, .BE, .PL, .AT, etc. become subdomains of .EU.

  7. 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.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      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)

      1. FrogsAndChips Silver badge

        Re: What's the difference?

        Sacrebl.eu immediately came to mind, but it seems to have been taken by a comedy club in Brick Lane. Palsambl.eu appears free.

        Ohmondi.eu (OMG) is also unavailable.

        1. Pen-y-gors

          Re: What's the difference?

          But

          mylordmontagueofbeauli.eu

          is available - not sure what to use it for theu.

        2. handleoclast

          Re: What's the difference?

          mountaindi.eu

          1. doublelayer Silver badge

            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!

          2. herman

            Re: What's the difference?

            "mountaindi.eu" Mon di.eu or sacre bl.eu would be more apt.

            1. handleoclast

              Re: What's the difference?

              "mountaindi.eu" Mon di.eu or sacre bl.eu would be more apt.

              This is the El Reg comments section. We don't let apt get in the way of terrible puns.

    2. 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.

    3. Dodgy Geezer Silver badge

      Re: What's the difference?

      Exactly. Mr Mcarthy's argument is non-existent. He says that there is no point in having geographical llimits on domain names, except for some names where there is a point....

      Thisis the sort of logic we have come to expect from politicians. But not from El Reg....

  8. Voland's right hand Silver badge

    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.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Idiocrats"

    Why not. We can all join in with the brexit hate-fest.

    Pick your side then demonise and hate the other.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      "Idiocrats", "Brexit backtrack", "idiotic decision"...?

      Have to agree. I know The Register prides itself on its "tabloidiness", but this was verging into Daily Mail levels of overt partisanship that even Andrew Orlowski's obvious dislike of Google et al doesn't normally reach.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    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.

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