"they should enforce their rules" is a pretty pointless statement in a discussion of whether the rules make sense.
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.
I disagree that the rules don’t make sense. The fact that the rules are inconvenient for a small set of individuals who registered a EU domain and live in a country that decided to leave the EU does not mean the EU rules are wrong.
> 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.
Why should it apply to anyone that leaves? You haven’t justified that assertion.
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.
You got that line backwards. I'm saying that a group/company that wants an EU domain only needs one person in the EU. The standards are very low, not something that gains a benefit from strict enforcement.
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.