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by shittyadmin 2766 days ago
> I've generally read on Hacker News that having EU users is sufficient to put you within the GDPR's reach, and that for a web service there's therefore nothing that will protect you besides IP-blocking Europe.

This is fairly ridiculous, if you're have no European presence, you're free to ignore the GDPR. The EU has no legal jurisdiction over you, the only recourse would be for the EU to block your site and that's just not going to happen - no one wants to see a Great Firewall of the EU, can you imagine the backlash?
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Scoundreller 2766 days ago
If you have EU TLDs, maybe you could lose those domains?

Or your trademarks become unenforceable in EU?

Imagine the mess if I start usatoday.eu, but « focussed only on the EU market ».

Since .com doesn’t operate in the EU market because of GDPR, am I really infringing in their mark?

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r3bl 2766 days ago
A prerequisite for "purchasing" (renting) a .eu TLD is that you're a European Union citizen. Technically, it's against the ToS to rent one to anyone else. If they're not aiming for the market, I think they also can't get .eu domain.

That being said, it sure will be fun when all the British people/corporations won't be able to renew their .eu domains no more!

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robin_reala 2766 days ago
Unfortunately that’s the truth: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/notice_to_stakeho...
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Scoundreller 2765 days ago
Maybe for .eu, but I don’t believe that’s true for all other EU TLDs (e.g. .co.uk (for another few months anyway...))
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