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Brexit may have been pounding EURid’s domain base for the last few years, but .eu domains recovered a little in the first quarter due to promotional activity in Portugal. The UK left the European Union on January 31, and Brits will lose their rig...
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May 6, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
EURid’s policy to boot out Brits next week has been put on hold due to the current impasse in Brexit talks. UK citizens had been told they would lose their .eu domains November 1, the first day the country was scheduled to no longer be a member o...
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October 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
Residents of countries outside the European Union are now able to register .eu domain names. A new rule that kicked in at the weekend broadened eligibility from only residents of the EU and European Economic Area. Now, residency is irrelevant. The catc...
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October 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
ICANN has finally approved a version of .eu in Greek script, but it’s already been criticized as “useless”. Yesterday, ICANN’s board of directors rubber-stamped .ευ, the second internationalized domain name version of the Europe...
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September 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, .ευ, ccnso, Domain Policy, eurid, fast track, gac, idn cctld fast track, ssac
.eu saw its registrations sink substantially in 2018, largely due to Brexit, which affected its revenue and profit. Registry EURid said yesterday that it was managing 3,684,750 .eu domains at the end of the year, down by 130,305 over the year. It’...
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April 16, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid, financials
EURid’s .eu top-level domain has hit a six-year low in terms of total registrations, and Brexit is to blame. The registry has just announced that it had 3,684,750 domains under management at the end of 2018, down 63,129 domains compared to the 3,...
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February 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
European Union citizens living in the UK could find their .eu domain names shut off in the next few months, EURid has said. In a just-published update to its Brexit guidance, the registry has told Brits that they stand to lose their domains on May 30, ...
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January 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Policy, eurid
British .eu registrants have been urged to consider another top-level domain or seek legal advice due to the risk of losing their names if a no-deal Brexit happens. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport issued guidance shortly before Christmas, e...
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January 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Policy, eurid
In a few years, you’ll no longer than to live in the European Union in order to buy a .eu domain name. Residency requirements are to be dropped under new regulations approved by the European Parliament, Council and European Commission last week. ...
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December 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
Eurid has announced that Cyrillic domain names in .eu will be deleted a year from now. The registry said that it’s doing so to comply with the “no script mixing” recommendations for internationalized domain names, which are designed t...
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June 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, .ею, cyrillic, Domain Registries, eurid