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British firms will not be able to use .eu domains following the UK’s break from the European Union


UK firms face a loss of .eu domains after Brexit


More than 300,000 British firms and individuals could be kicked off their .eu websites after Brexit. According to recent figures,


about ten per cent of the .eu registered domains are based in the UK.


But the trading bloc has decreed


that UK-registered websites will no longer qualify for .eu web addresses post-Brexit. Apparently without consulting


EURID, the hosting company, it has ruled that only EU-based firms and individuals will be allowed to register or renew .eu websites after the final withdrawal date and that won't include post-Brexit Britain. Latest figures, according to The


Register - an online tech publication with more than nine million monthly unique browsers worldwide - suggest there could be


317,000 .eu websites registered from the UK, all of which will have to choose a different top level domain, such as .co.uk, .uk, .gov or .com, to continue their web presence after the UK's withdrawal from the EU. At the end of March, the


European Commission Directorate- General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, published a Notice to Stakeholders under the heading Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and .EU Domain Names. After outlining the origins of the


.eu domain and the bloc's ownership of it, it said: "Subject to


any transitional arrangement that may be contained in a possible withdrawal agreement, the EU regulatory framework for the .eu top level domain will no longer apply to the United Kingdom as from the withdrawal date. “As of the withdrawal date, undertakings and organisations that are established in the United Kingdom but not in the EU and natural persons who reside in the United Kingdom will no longer be eligible to register .eu domain names or, if they are .eu registrants, to renew .eu domain names registered before the withdrawal date.”


‘The threat is very clear; the EU intends to kick UK-based .eu domain users off their .eu websites as soon as possible after Brexit’


David Pearson (pictured),


Director of Partnerships and Membership Services at the Chamber, said: “The threat is very clear; the EU intends to kick UK- based .eu domain users off their .eu websites as soon as possible after Brexit. It is not yet clear whether the EU means to enact this cleansing immediately or whether it will be after any agreed transition period. “The Chamber's advice to any UK-


based organisation using a .eu domain, would be to change it as soon as possible to one of the more welcoming domain hosts such as .co.uk or .com if not already owned and to ensure all traffic through the .eu site is forwarded to the alternative address until either the EU shuts us out or you can easily walk away from the .eu address.”


Employment figures are ahead of the rest


The East Midlands continues to beat the national average when it comes to getting people into work, according to recently-released Office for National Statistics figures. Unemployment in the region for the period


December 2017 to February 2018 remained at 4.1%, marginally better than the national rate of 4.2%. Over the same period, 21,162 more people found


work in the region than in the three months to November 2017, giving a regional employment rate of 60.1%, slightly better than the 59.6% recorded for the previous quarter. Chris Hobson, Director of Policy at the Chamber,


said: “The ONS figures show that wage growth closed to within a few points of inflation over the period, which means less of a squeeze on household incomes.


“They also showed that more people became


economically active compared with the previous quarter, resulting in rising employment across our region and an unemployment rate that remains better than the national average. “Our own research, through our Quarterly Economic


Survey for the first three months of this year, showed us that employers are still willing to invest in the right workers for the jobs and to pay a little more to attract or retain the right people where necessary.” Other figures released by the ONS showed that the


number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire increased by 670 in March compared with February, with Derby and Derbyshire seeing the biggest rise and Leicestershire recording the lowest change.


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