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EURid saw about 6,000 .eu domain names that formerly belonged to Brits re-registered in the first day after a mass delete at the start of the month. “Around 6000 Brexit-related domain names were re-registered during the first day, and around 6500 as of today,” a registry spokesperson said. EURid had released around 48,000 domains in […]
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January 21, 2022 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
EURid, the .EU Registry, is getting rid approximately 48,000 domains today, linked to British registrants that are no longer able to keep them due to Brexit. The domains were placed “on-hold” last July and today they will be revoked and rel...
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January 3, 2022 DomainGang
.eu, .eu domains, Brexit, Brexit domains, eurid
EURid’s long-serving CEO is leaving and the company has started looking for someone to fill the role. A spokesperson for the .eu registry told DI this morning that Marc Van Wesemael is planning to retire after his replacement is found, which should be a matter of months. Van Wesemael has been CEO (general manager) of […]
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December 9, 2021 Domain Incite
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
All the .eu domain names formerly belonging to Brits and UK residents will be released for registration on a first-come, first-served basis in one day, EURid announced today. There are about 48,000 of them, and they’ll be released in batches star...
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November 23, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
UK-registered .eu domains dropped by about 43,000 in the third quarter, as the full impact of Brexit kicked in. There were 3,714 domains registered from the UK at the end of the third quarter, according to EURid’s latest statistics. This compares...
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November 3, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
.eu registry EURid said today that it’s broadening the eligibility criteria for registrants to ex-pats from three countries. The rule change means that if you’re a citizen of Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein but do not live in those countri...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Domain Registries, eurid
UK registrants of .eu domains have just two weeks left to bring their registrations into compliance or face losing their names forever. EURid today sent out its final warning to its UK customers — update your records or have your domains placed i...
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June 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
EURid, the .eu registry, says the Cyrillic version of its TLD has amassed just 1,369 domain registrations in its first five years of operations. The internationalized domain name .ею is predominantly used in Bulgaria, the only EU nation where Cyrillic ...
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June 1, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, .ею, Domain Registries, eurid
The .eu ccTLD shrank a bit in the first quarter as a result of Brexit finally kicking in fully. Registry EURid reported that there were 3,681,337 registered .eu, .ею and .ευ domains at the end of March, down from 3,684,984 at the end of 2020, a dip of ...
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May 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
The European Union TLD, dot .EU, turned 15 years old today. In the one and a half decades since, the domain registrations of .EU domains have reached more than 3.68 million. EURid, the dot .EU Registry, celebrates the TLD’s 15th anniversary and h...
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April 7, 2021 DomainGang
.eu, .eu domains, dot .eu, eurid, European domains