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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by dingaling on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:26PM (#25648940)
Or you could say that the act of tying eligibility for registering a domain to citizenship was the problem.

Isn't the Internet meant to be supernational? Do bits have to stop for visa checks at borders?

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by cromka on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:45PM (#25649214)
The ccTLDs are maintained by the respective entities that own them. This has nothing to do with Internet being supranational, the DNS simply does not reflect that. In fact, it had been controlled via ICANN by the US for the longest time: https://newrepublic.com/article/117037/us-gives-iana-and-dns...
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