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People from the UK that had an .eu domain were unable to renew it after brexit.

Roark66 4y ago
Is this really a thing? I had a .eu domain for years. I only let it go this year(it was on annual renewal) . My registered address was and is still in UK and I never had any trouble from my registrar(eurodns) about the EU domain. Or do they do it based on the payment method? (I might have used an EU cc to renew)?
- cranekam 4y ago
  Apparently it is true: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-domain-names-in-the-uk https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma... It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold EU/EEA citizenship or businesses that conduct business in the region.
  - denton-scratch 4y ago
    And that was always so; it's not "more-or-less", you've never been able to have a .eu domain unless you "belong to" the EU, for various values of "belong to". Always read the T&C.
drooopy 4y ago
The difference here is that people from the UK voted for losing the right to renew their .eu domains.
- feanaro 4y ago
  Not all of them did. Domains shouldn't be related to citizenship anyway.
  - hypertele-Xii 4y ago
    How exactly can you have an infrastructural domain decoupled from the nation providing the infrastructure?
  - zaik 4y ago
    Then you probably should not buy an .eu domain. The registry states very clearly that .eu is in fact tied to your citizenship.
    - immibis 4y ago
      All domains come with various catches.
- readsadhours 4y ago
  This is irrelevant. Any country in the EU might do the same. I would hate to lose my domain because of this.
  - drooopy 4y ago
    Again, not the same thing. British people didn't lose it. Nobody took it away against the public's will. They voted in favour of getting rid of it.
    - readsadhours 4y ago
      As I said before, it does not matter. Before someone had an email address and now they don't, and it could happen to anyone with an .eu domain. This is what matters. It is an unreliable TLD for email addresses that you want to last.
      - denton-scratch 4y ago
        That's what I figured, which is why I never had a .eu domain.
    - thfuran 4y ago
      When was the last time a national vote was unanimous?
    - corobo 4y ago
      I specifically remember voting against brexit. Guess I ticked the wrong box.
kdtsh 4y ago
This is a good reason to stick to .com and .net
- thiht 4y ago
  You're being downvoted but this is actually good advice. As someone who worked in domain names for 5 years, I often suggest to either use one of the historical gTLDs (com, net, info, org) or the ccTLD of your country if it's popular enough (.fr for France, .uk/.co.uk for United Kingdom, etc.) Never use the ccTLD of a different country than yours, eligibility rules can change with very short notice. For .eu the notice was long enough but nothing guarantees it to be the case. Some trendy ccTLDs also have crappy infrastructure (.so of Somalia for example has provoked at least one outage for Notion.so). Be very careful with newGTLDs, some of these are outright scam. There are some reliable newGTLDS (.app/.dev from Google for example, yeah, even though it's Google they have to play by ICANN's rules) but if you don't know how to determine the reliability of a newGTLD, just stick with .com/.net.

Is this really a thing? I had a .eu domain for years. I only let it go this year(it was on annual renewal) . My registered address was and is still in UK and I never had any trouble from my registrar(eurodns) about the EU domain. Or do they do it based on the payment method? (I might have used an EU cc to renew)?

cranekam 4y ago
Apparently it is true: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-domain-names-in-the-uk https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma... It seems .eu domains are more or less only available to people who live in the EU/EEA, hold EU/EEA citizenship or businesses that conduct business in the region.
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  And that was always so; it's not "more-or-less", you've never been able to have a .eu domain unless you "belong to" the EU, for various values of "belong to". Always read the T&C.

drooopy 4y ago

The difference here is that people from the UK voted for losing the right to renew their .eu domains.

feanaro 4y ago
Not all of them did. Domains shouldn't be related to citizenship anyway.
- hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  How exactly can you have an infrastructural domain decoupled from the nation providing the infrastructure?
- zaik 4y ago
  Then you probably should not buy an .eu domain. The registry states very clearly that .eu is in fact tied to your citizenship.
  - immibis 4y ago
    All domains come with various catches.
readsadhours 4y ago
This is irrelevant. Any country in the EU might do the same. I would hate to lose my domain because of this.
- drooopy 4y ago
  Again, not the same thing. British people didn't lose it. Nobody took it away against the public's will. They voted in favour of getting rid of it.
  - readsadhours 4y ago
    As I said before, it does not matter. Before someone had an email address and now they don't, and it could happen to anyone with an .eu domain. This is what matters. It is an unreliable TLD for email addresses that you want to last.
    - denton-scratch 4y ago
      That's what I figured, which is why I never had a .eu domain.
  - thfuran 4y ago
    When was the last time a national vote was unanimous?
  - corobo 4y ago
    I specifically remember voting against brexit. Guess I ticked the wrong box.

kdtsh 4y ago

This is a good reason to stick to .com and .net

thiht 4y ago
You're being downvoted but this is actually good advice. As someone who worked in domain names for 5 years, I often suggest to either use one of the historical gTLDs (com, net, info, org) or the ccTLD of your country if it's popular enough (.fr for France, .uk/.co.uk for United Kingdom, etc.) Never use the ccTLD of a different country than yours, eligibility rules can change with very short notice. For .eu the notice was long enough but nothing guarantees it to be the case. Some trendy ccTLDs also have crappy infrastructure (.so of Somalia for example has provoked at least one outage for Notion.so). Be very careful with newGTLDs, some of these are outright scam. There are some reliable newGTLDS (.app/.dev from Google for example, yeah, even though it's Google they have to play by ICANN's rules) but if you don't know how to determine the reliability of a newGTLD, just stick with .com/.net.