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EURid, the .eu registry, has given UK-based registrants another three months to reclaim their suspended .eu domains. The transition period governing Brexit ended with 2020, and with it UK citizens’ right to own a .eu domain. The registry suspende...
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February 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
The .eu ccTLD grew by 108,682 domains in the fourth quarter of 2020, the last reporting period before the full impact of Brexit is felt. The registry said this week that it ended December with 3,684,984 names under management, a number which also inclu...
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February 3, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
EURid suspended about 80,00 domain names on Friday, as the UK’s 11 months of Brexit transition came to an end. All the names were registered to UK-based, non-EU citizens and organizations, which are no longer eligible under registry policy. ̶...
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January 4, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
The .eu registry has given UK-based registrants an extra window to keep hold of their domains, which will soon be deleted due to Brexit. Brits were originally set to lose their .eu names at the end of the year, due to the expiry of the year-long Brexit...
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November 30, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
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