81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends

Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by cromka on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:36PM (#25649093)

> 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.

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by dustinmoris on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:52PM (#25649339)

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.

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by cromka on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:56PM (#25649387)

> 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.

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by cromka on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:39PM (#25652839)

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

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by tailspin2019 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:27PM (#25653713)

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

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by dustinmoris on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:53PM (#25653484)

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.

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Re:81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends by M2Ys4U on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:34PM (#25652165)

>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.

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