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EURid Updates Post-Brexit

January 24, 2019 by Michele Neylon 1 Comment

European Union Map with UK removed by pencil eraser, concept of Brexit as Britain vote to leave

Brexit will impact many things. One that has not been getting much attention however is domain names and more specifically .eu domains. Under the current regulations you need to be a resident of the European Union to register a .eu domain name. As I covered in a blog post last year there is the potential for hundreds of thousand of .eu domain names being pulled … [Read more...] about EURid Updates Post-Brexit

Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow

April 3, 2018 by Michele Neylon

Nominet logo (2015)

Nominet, the registry for .uk, is conducting a consultation on how it will handle whois data once GDPR comes into force. It's worth noted that the consultation is only related to the *.uk namespace and is not about any of the gTLD registries on the Nominet platform. While that is the main focus of the current consultation they're also using it as an opportunity to make a few … [Read more...] about Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow

European Commission Wants to Kill Off Thousands of EU Domains due to Brexit

March 29, 2018 by Michele Neylon

chess game Great Britain and the European Union, Brexit British and European confrontation

After the Brexit vote I posited that there could be an impact on EU registrants based in the UK. Over the past year the UK government has been engaged in negotiations with the EU to navigate the application of Article 50 and the UK's exit from the European Union. While there has been a lot of focus on issues like the customs union and the border between Ireland and Northern … [Read more...] about European Commission Wants to Kill Off Thousands of EU Domains due to Brexit

EU Commission Opens Public Consultation on EU Domain

May 15, 2017 by Michele Neylon

The .eu ccTLD is quite different in that it is run by the European Commission. The Commission contracts EURid to run the registry on their behalf. As the entire thing is setup and managed by the European Union institutions the ccTLD's policies are based on European treaties and laws. Complicated? Yes, but it's still fully functional and one of the larger ccTLDs. Last Friday … [Read more...] about EU Commission Opens Public Consultation on EU Domain

DNS Belgium Moves Backend to the Cloud

February 10, 2017 by Michele Neylon

DNS Belgium logo

DNS Belgium, who run the .be ccTLD domain registry, as well as .brussels and .vlaanderen, is moving its backend to the cloud. The domain registry announced last year that they would be migrating their backend to the cloud. Why? So they can focus on the software and services and not have to concern themselves with the hardware and colocation aspect of running clusters … [Read more...] about DNS Belgium Moves Backend to the Cloud

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