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Leave.eu, the pro-Brexit lobby group, has transferred its website registration address to the European Union in a bid to avoid losing its .eu level domain. The .eu suffix is reserved for EU citizens and entities, which now excludes 80,000 British websites.
A gesture of Churchillian solidarity with all they hold dear
Gareth Corfield Fri 8 Jan 2021 // 12:41 UTC Share
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Faced with a stark choice between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the evil technocracy of the EU s Brussels dictatorship, plucky little campaign group Leave.EU was only ever going to make one choice.
That s right. It domiciled itself in the European Union. Ireland (the Republic of), no less.
The Irish Timesspotted yesterday that Leave.EU, which brought such characters as Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore to the British political conversation, has registered its eponymous web domain in an EU state – seemingly to avoid losing its name altogether.
Pro-Brexit lobby group Leave.eu joins the EU
The .eu suffix is reserved for European Union citizens and entities, which now excludes 80,000 British websites. In a bid to avoid losing its domain, the group changed its address to Ireland.
Sites that use a .eu address need to be based in the European Union or run by an EU citizen
A pro-Brexit lobby group transferred its website registration address to the European Union to avoid losing its .eu top-level domain, Irish media reported on Thursday.
Leave.eu is a website funded by UKIP funder Arron Banks that campaigned for Brexit. It is not affiliated with the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign but was an influential lobby group in the lead up to the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations.