"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 Throwing a middle finger up at 300,000 innocent domain owners is not going to do good things for trust in your TLD.

@varx @cwebber to be fair the 17 million folk in UK who put the middle finger (or perhaps more precisely the V-sign) at the other half of the voting population are just as much to blame.

It is made fairly clear in the .eu registration commisions any domain owner has to be based in the EU (other countries have even more restrictive rules about domain ownership or even getting VOIP phone numbers)

Leaving the EU has consequences, not all of which are positive..

@vfrmedia @cwebber There's precedent for not getting rid of domains that would no longer be registrable by their owners. I guess the Soviet Union example *is* a bit different, though, in that there's an extant registration authority who can make whatever policy decisions they want...

@varx @cwebber also the wider point about DNS is important too, especially with global trends towards nationalism/populism.

It unnerves me someitmes when I see young startup companies/indieweb sites with mildly edgy/controversial content pick "cool" domains which belong to countries which are moving to more conservative/nationalist politics, even if registrars currently say "business is business" and hold their noses, its not guaranteed that they will continually do so..

@vfrmedia @cwebber Tell me about it. I keep waiting for Libya to take over bit.ly or something.

I'm hosting a sandstorm instance at sandy.parsni.ps but I mean really who knows what Palestine may or may not decide to care about in N years.