I see a domain name as property. Am I allowed to buy a house close to the border? Yes. If they change the law, I don't think it's fair to take the house away from me.
From the other side, why should the EU allow someone outside the EU to hold onto a domain that a person within the EU might want or benefit from?
They should let people keep it because it was bought under the correct circumstances and it's very disruptive to rip away a domain name while harmless to let a very tiny fraction escape that way.
> it's very disruptive
Britain leaving the EU was very disruptive. I don’t see why the EU should alter their rules to accommodate British citizens. It doesn’t seem like responsibility of easing the disruption should fall at all to the EU when Britain created the disruption.
If the intent is specifically to have a TLD for citizens and entities within the government’s scope, why should anyone outside that scope get to keep a domain? That is directly contradictory to the intent.
Governmental TLD’s are not supposed to be vanity domains that anyone can grab. That’s not the point.
And having one person be in the right location is hardly a strong binding to anything. It's a basic generic TLD. It's okay if 0.1% 'leak'.
> having one person be in the right location
This is a strawman. I bet thousands at minimum of EU domains were registered in the UK.
I don’t know what the EU officially requires.