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Bare in mind that in order to regiser a .eu domain you must be an EU citizen, resident in the EU or your organisation must be established in the EU. (or the EEA - Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway)

And yes, they will take away domains if you don't continue to meet the requirements - it happened to me (thanks, Brexit).



I (in the UK) used to have a small local restaurant which had a .eu domain. When Brexit was happening, I mentioned this issue to them, and they explained the relevant individual was an EU citizen so they were OK in the short term but they were migrating anyway. (And I see they are now on a .co.uk domain.)


Thanks, it makes sense, but I somehow missed this requirement. Anyway, my company is registered in the EU.


You mean if you change address to outside EU, you can’t keep your eu domain?

They tend to be cheap.


Well if you're an EU/EEA citizen it doesn't matter where your address is, but if you're relying on the residency requirement as a non-EU/EEA citizen it might.




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