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I struggle to think of any business or important organisation that relies on .EU for its identity and operations - the only ones I've seen use it are political campaigns.

Presumably the answer is to just use a proxy register based in the EU, if this even becomes an issue?

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How about the European Union, at europa.eu?

My employer's database has a few hundred email addresses ending .eu. The vast majority are scientific institutions, local government, or EU institutions.

Well, the EU aren't leaving the EU, are they? So far as I'm aware, no local government in the UK uses .EU as they're on the .GOV.UK SLD.

I have the bad luck of setting a company up in Ireland and thinking I might relocate it to the UK at some point, so I set it up with a .eu domain. It was also easier to get a .eu domain since a .ie requires more paperwork to prove you are actually in Ireland. We did relocate the company to the UK, but now the UK is relocating itself out of .eu so now we have to change the business e-mail addresses.

As far as EU is concerned, you voted Leave and you deserve much worse than changing your email addresses.

Approx 74% of the British population didn't vote to leave, probably including the poster above. Also at the time of the vote the majority of eligible voters probably didn't want to leave as the non voters polled about 60-40 remain. Still our government seem to think "the will of the people" must be rammed through even if it's not what most of the actual people wanted or now want and will cost goodness knows how many billions.

The democratic answer is that

1) Non voters chose to go fuck themselves, please avoid counting them in formally correct but delusional statistics.

2) If you really cared about the issue you should have done your best to convince someone to vote Remain.

Of course I feel sorry, and I agree that a better government could or should try to reverse Brexit (for example, with a new referendum or with Scotland-related excuses), but you also voted the Conservative party (and worse) for parliament; see 1 and 2 above.

Some people seem to be missing the context of my point, so I'll re-state that I'm struggling to think of any UK-based business or important organisation that relies on .EU. Non-UK users of .EU aren't germane to the issue here. Even pointing out examples of users isn't really relevant: I don't claim that there are no users - just that I struggle to think of any [UK-based].

https://www.brisk2.eu/ or https://www.structuralbiology.eu/ are the kind of thing, but UK-based European Union science projects have much more to worry about from Brexit than their domain name.

I don't think there are many businesses that want to show they're European, which probably means they're fairly large, but don't also want local websites for each country they operate in.

There are a few British businesses like hauliers and removal companies using the domain, but none big enough to be called "important".

https://www.airnewzealand.eu/ is one example. https://www.flyturkmenistanairlines.eu/ too.

According to this, there are over 300,000 UK registrations of .EU domains: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/10-years-...

Here is a real business (albeit an Estonian one): https://www.leapin.eu/

But still not in the UK or affected by these changes.

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