[At-Large] A brexit problem that I heard about

sivasubramanian muthusamy 6.internet at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 12:37:55 UTC 2018


(typo) ... alternative to the domain RegistRANT ....

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 6:06 PM sivasubramanian muthusamy <
6.internet at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 5:27 PM Michele Neylon - Blacknight <
> michele at blacknight.com> wrote:
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>> Sorry, but what on earth do you mean?
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>> If I have all my headed paper, business cards etc etc using a .eu domain
>> name and I move to another domain extension I lose all that **if** the
>> .eu domain name is either deleted, suspended or simply registered to
>> someone else.
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>> It’s very different to a simple rebranding exercise where you retain
>> control of the original domain name and can setup pointers, redirects etc.,
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> True.  But in the event that control over the domain name goes away due to
> EXTERNAL factors beyond control, (as in this case the brexit related .EU
> directive coming into force), the alternative to the domain registering
> finding a c/o street address (which may be illegal) or actually maintaining
> a street presence (which may not be legally feasible or not affordable) the
> least harmful alternative (or relief) would be for the hosting environment
> to allow the registrant to migrate his account  and all his content to a
> new domain of his own choice.  At present (possibly due to some limitations
> or safeguards he is unable to use a new  non EU domain to preserve his
> email account linked to the .EU domain name.
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> Sivasubramanian M
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>> For example we used to use blacknight.ie for our website and email. We
>> don’t anymore, but you’d never notice as we still retain control of the
>> domain.
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>> Regards
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>> Michele
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>> --
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>> Mr Michele Neylon
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>> Blacknight Solutions
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>> *From: *At-Large <at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of
>> sivasubramanian muthusamy <6.internet at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Wednesday 15 August 2018 at 10:36
>> *To: *gtheo <gtheo at xs4all.nl>
>> *Cc: *At-Large Worldwide <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [At-Large] A brexit problem that I heard about
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>> Dear Theo Geurts,
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>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 2:28 PM gtheo <gtheo at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> The alternatives are very limited as privacy or proxy registrations are
>> a violation of the registry agreement if I am correct.
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>> One alternative solution that would mitigate the hardships for at least a
>> few of the 300k .EU (and the registrants other gTLD and ccTLD registries
>> that may in future decide for one compelling reason or another to drop some
>> domains) could arise from the Domain management services (which in this
>> case, in this or expanded technical capacity, is Google) who could make it
>> possible for these users to migrate to another domain name of their choice.
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>> Sivasubramanian M
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>> 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
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>> 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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