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"Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin"
Not only a comment on the stupidity of Brexit, but why we also should not be building our decentralized systems upon the quicksand-foundation of DNS https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/eu_dumps_300000_ukowned_domains_into_brexit_bin/
@cwebber If they want to break computer stuff even more they should undo the aligned DST switching between BST and CEST/the other EU timezones (which is only the case since 1995)
@elomatreb @cwebber what worries me is I can *easily* see London threatening or even doing just that as retaliation (whilst still keeping BST).
This also means I may now have to change a whole load of my email addresses for UPS alarms etc which currently use an .eu domain, as well as the one I use to sign into Mastodon..
@elomatreb @cwebber I remember reading about this when I first registered mine, it wasn't expected the UK would leave the EU then!
Hopefully an agreement is reached in the transition talks rather than cause major disruption, or possibly the hosting companies offer to manage them on behalf of UK customers if thats allowed, but that is also an opportunity for lockin and extracting extra fees (and yet you can still register a Soviet domain!)
@elomatreb
@vfrmedia Arrangements like that are common for TLDs with strict residency requirements, but they usually require notarial services which gets really pricey (and one of the selling points of .eu was its low price compared to most other EU-ccTLDs other than .de)
