As is so often the case, being inside the ICANN bubble it's easy to lose track of how insignificant domains increasingly are in big picture.

Should a hard Brexit be reality, the loss of .eu domains will be barely a blip on anyone's radar next to the disruptions to healthcare, agriculture, air travel and the financial sector. UK-based companies using a ,eu domain, by definition, depend on European identification; a no-deal crash-out in Mark would lead to the disruption of far worse than Internet domains. One's web presence can be recovered through search engines and social media, and the situation will be understood and forgiven by consumers. OTOH, actually being able to trade with Europeans once they find you again would likely be far more difficult.

In any case, for UK companies doing serious trade with the EU there will no doubt be workarounds. For most it will be worthwhile to maintain some kind of business presence on the Continent as the cost of doing business post-Brexit; workarounds are even being proposed for people.

Should a deal be struck or Brexit reversed -- both possible but far from assured -- it will be for far loftier reasons than to protect British .eu registrants.

Cheers,

- Evan

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 21:54, Vanda Scartezini <vanda@scartezini.org> wrote:

Thanks for your thoughts Christopher I do believe the final cost of Brexit will make UK to postpone the decision forever ... Kisses

Vanda Scartezini
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On Aug 15, 2018, at 11:38 AM, mail@christopherwilkinson.eu CW <mail@christopherwilkinson.eu> wrote:

Good afternoon:

Naturally, I am following this question closely.

At present, the Brexit debate is so finely balanced that it is difficult to foresee the outcome.

It is still quite possible that either the outcome will be sufficiently close to the EEA precedent that UK .eu registrants will be protected, or that the growing realisation of the economic costs of Brexit will lead to no Brexit at all.

Should the worst befall, the loss of 300k. registrations would be a modest part of the overall costs to the British public and economy.

Meanwhile EURid and the EU Commission will need to address some very difficult issues, particularly for those UK registrants who have developed a significant business on the basis of their .eu domain. Not least the protection of their intellectual property and good will.

Regards

CW

El 15 de agosto de 2018 a las 11:24 Javier Rua <javrua@gmail.com> escribió:

Thx!

Javier Rúa-Jovet

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On Aug 15, 2018, at 4:58 AM, gtheo <gtheo@xs4all.nl> wrote:

The alternatives are very limited as privacy or proxy registrations are a violation of the registry agreement if I am correct.

The latest news and info can be located here; https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
We are talking around 300k .EU registrations for possible deletion.

Best,

Theo Geurts

sivasubramanian muthusamy schreef op 2018-08-15 02:31 AM:

Hello,

Someone who is a UK citizen some years ago registered a .EU internet

domain name. This happens to be linked to a legacy Google account

which his family uses. The domain Registry has now advised that it

will be terminating .EU domains for UK individuals and organisations

as early as next year. The legacy Google account will not permit him

to change the domain name, and doing so would create a whole range of

complications in any case.

One solution is to maintain business or residential presence in EU in

some manner ifor the sake of the domain. Is there lany alternative

solutions please?

Sivasubramanian M

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