Article 4KNJZ Leave.EU may keep name after no-deal Brexit if ownership handed to EU citizen

Leave.EU may keep name after no-deal Brexit if ownership handed to EU citizen

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Alex Hern
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UK-based owners of .eu domains could use transfer loophole to keep name

Leave.EU will be allowed to keep its name after a no-deal Brexit, the European commission has announced - but only if it transfers ownership of the domain name to an EU citizen.

The ruling is a backtrack from a previous decision in March this year, which said that, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, all UK-based owners of .eu domains would have to either physically move to the EU, or lose their website address permanently.

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