Don't worry, it's only money
But more fundamentally, UK citizens represent a significant proportion of .eu domain holders – 273,000 domains making up 10 per cent of the registry – and that means that the EU will be actively undercutting its own revenues.
Since when has the EU given any thought to how much its bureaucracy costs the member states? (If they did, the farce of the monthly decamp from Brussels to Strasbourg would have been abolished decades ago.)
Barnier needs to be reminded that he is just a civil servant not a head of state nor working for one. His remit should be merely to minimise the impact on the EU not impose 'penalties' on the UK.
The UK government's decision to recommend dotcom domains ahead of its own .uk domains has also raised eyebrows. Almost as if civil servants don't understand anything about the internet.
To be fair, if you do significant business in the EU then a .com might be slightly more familiar to your customers than a .uk. Odds are that you either have the domain already or it's taken so a bit irrelevant either way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
