> No you are not missing anything

A bold statement. And then you proceed to speculate with:

> "Luckily I never fancied a .eu domain, but if the EU would have prematurely revoked my domain then I'd be very unhappy."

So you don't know if they are missing anything or not. You didn't prove it, but you sure have an opinion about it and the EU, which doesn't add to discussion. Which is why you're being downvoted.

They cancelled .eu domains for all registrants who reside in the UK, irrespective of their citizenship. That is not a speculation. They ask for those people to prove their citizenship before the end of March. Why doesn't the EU first ask for the citizenship proof before harming its own citizen? It's kind of dumb to think that the EU happily harms its own citizen and don't even realise it because they think the only harm UK folks.

> Why doesn't the EU first ask for the citizenship proof before harming its own citizen?

Did you check that they didn't? Do you know that? Because they did ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648952

You drop accusations left and right despite being few clicks away from actually checking these notifications: https://eurid.eu/en/home/

From the first notice posted on Oct 1st 2020: https://eurid.eu/en/news/first-brexit-notice/

"Registration data may be updated by indicating a legally established entity in one of the eligible Union Member States, or by updating their residence to a Union Member State, or proving their citizenship of a Union Member State irrespective of their residence."

So, again, you just come off salty, ignorant and prejudiced towards EU without merit, and there isn't room on Hackernews for such attitude. So yeah, you do deserve to get downvoted into oblivion.

And, as expected, dustinmoris never bothered to apologize for outright lying. I swear people like him/her are making HN becoming another Reddit.

However right you may be on this, just a bit of feedback; accusing someone of being ignorant, prejudiced and lying could also come off as “salty”.

Misinformed maybe, but they admitted they were wrong.

Also:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes I went to the eurid website and they had a facility to declare citizenship beforehand so you’re right, I simply assumed massive EU incompetence based on precedence, but in this case it wasn’t their fault.

>They cancelled .eu domains for all registrants who reside in the UK, irrespective of their citizenship.

No, they didn't. Eurid have sent out several notifications telling registrants what to do if they are still eligible to have a .eu domain by virtue of the fact they are EU citizens.

Source: I have (well, had...) a .eu domain and read those emails.

The rules of .eu domain ownership were known in advance, and there was many years of advance notice and one year of transition rules. If domain owners didn't take action on that long transition period I'd say the incompetence lies with them.

As per the article:

> and owners now have three months to prove their right to run a .eu domain. This means updating contact data to transfer the .eu domain to an EU-subsidiary outside the UK; or declaring citizenship or residence of an EU member state.

So they still have a grace period in addition to the previous transition year, in addition to the time after triggering Art. 50

This is pure speculation. Let me counter with the equivivalent counter argument: More likely that domain holders were given time (about 12 months) to validate their eligibility.

I didn't downvote you, but if you want to avoid downvotes, you should probably substantiate your opinion.

> Great ideas, but terrible execution on literally every matter.

Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 things worked on by the EU that I think are well implemented:

- Erasmus programme

- Roaming regulations

- EU-China investment treaty

I also really like the GDPR, but I understand that its enforcement hasn't been though enough...

Why do you think that the EU's execution is terrible on literally everything?

Like GDPR? Try reading it.