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I understand not letting people in the UK register new .eu domain names. But by making it impossible (or just hard, more likely) to renew domain names imho they are needlessy hurting people and businesses who had bet on the EU.

[…] they are needlessy hurting people and businesses who had bet on the EU.

They, in this case, being the British government performing the Brexit, not the EU enforcing the agreed-upon rules. The Brexit has consequences, be they negative or positive, that are real and can have a lot of impact on the lives of both British and EU citizens. The British government has accepted these as representatives of their voters.

If they "bet" on the EU, why don't they have any established entity in it? Doesn't seem like betting much to me.

Because they have had established entities in it and will continue to do so until March 2019?

After all, establishing an entity in the United Kingdom has, until now, been an equal level of 'betting' as establishing an entity anywhere else in the EU.

And if you bet on the top 500 companies in the stock market, and one drops below the 500th place, nobody will redesign the S&P to fit your portfolio either. You have to rebalance your bet.

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