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

JJS jjs at dyalog.net
Mon Aug 20 19:05:48 UTC 2018


Thanks Evan, interesting points.
JJ.



Le 20 août 2018 à 21:01, à 21:01, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> a écrit:
>On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 09:27, gtheo <gtheo at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Danko is correct, in my opinion, Eurid is now part of a political
>game
>> between the UK and the EU.
>>
>
>Now? When was it ever not?
>
>I don't recall EURID suddenly changing the requirements to mess with
>the
>Brits. Access to an .eu domain has *always* been literally, a "member
>benefit" of residents of countries inside the EU. In fact, IIRC the
>whole
>publicity behind getting .eu domains was to publicize one's
>integration.
>
>Next to the significant potential Brexit damage to entire industries,
>companies, supply chains and business models, complaints about having
>to
>redo corporate letterhead due to a TLD switch are really rather minor
>in
>the big picture. So long as we still have search engines, telephones
>and
>the post office, switching domains is at most a significant nuisance.
>
>Perhaps there is a business opportunity here for registrars who offer
>to
>soften the blows for UK-based .eu registrants, through assistance with
>establishing sufficient EU presence, contingency planning,  or a
>reduced-fee eased move to a more-appropriate TLD. Isn't this kind of
>service the very reason one would want to deal through a registrar
>rather
>than directly with a registry?
>
>-
>Evan
>
>
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