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With the declaration of withdrawal from the EU by a referendum in 2016, the UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, and was separated from the scope of EU law from December 31, 2020. Due to this effect, UK registrants cannot use .eu domains that require users to have a residence or citizenship in an EU member state or that a legal entity exists in an EU member state, and that up to 81,000 domains are frozen do.
According to EURid, the European Internet Domain Registrar, which manages ,eu, all registrations and domain registrants of .eu domains in the UK have been notified by email that the domain has been frozen from January 1, 2021. Support for websites and emails through domains that are frozen has been discontinued, but updating domain registrant information could potentially restore them.
Of course, this fact was not announced suddenly in 2021, but was notified in advance in 2020. To get out of the frozen state, one of three conditions must be met. One is the EU27, so legally established in 27 EU member states or in one of the EEA member states. Another is to reside in the EU 27 or one of the EEA member states. The last is to obtain citizenship in one of the 27 EUs.
The freeze period is until March 31, 2021, and if there is no action during this period, it will be converted to cancellation from April 1, 2021, and on January 1, 2022, all canceled domains will be officially expunged and general registration is possible. It becomes.
According to reports, most owners of .eu domains in the UK appear to have decided to switch to other domains, and between 2018 and 2019, the number of sites using .eu domains in the UK declined by 46.7%. Related information can be found here .
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