I'm still salty about the .eu thing. I was an EU citizen for 42 years of my life and I used a .eu domain as my primary email address for many years. Not only did the EU decide I could not longer have it, they've made it available for anyone to register.
Hundreds of my website registrations were tied to that email address. Thankfully I had sufficient advance notice to tediously re-register the majority of sites to a non-.eu domain email. But there are still a few I didn't catch.
Thanks for that, EU. (Edit: thanks also to the Brexit voters, yes .... but I still contend that the EU could have made an accomodation for existing registrants to hold onto their domains, instead of take them away and re-list them for anyone to get.
Edit 2: Of course, any Brit well-resourced enough to set up some kind of shell company in EU to hold on to their domain will have been able to keep it. So the claim that "UK people should not be able to own .eu domain. It's confusing and misleading" does not hold water ... it's perfectly possible to do so even today by various trickery. So this decision only affects regular people. Not big business or the very wealthy.)
Hundreds of my website registrations were tied to that email address. Thankfully I had sufficient advance notice to tediously re-register the majority of sites to a non-.eu domain email. But there are still a few I didn't catch.
Thanks for that, EU. (Edit: thanks also to the Brexit voters, yes .... but I still contend that the EU could have made an accomodation for existing registrants to hold onto their domains, instead of take them away and re-list them for anyone to get.
Edit 2: Of course, any Brit well-resourced enough to set up some kind of shell company in EU to hold on to their domain will have been able to keep it. So the claim that "UK people should not be able to own .eu domain. It's confusing and misleading" does not hold water ... it's perfectly possible to do so even today by various trickery. So this decision only affects regular people. Not big business or the very wealthy.)