Well, here I sit, a casualty of Brexit.
Squibb is an unusual surname, but there are a couple of big players. There is a big demolition contractor, with plant and equipment just down by the QE2 bridge, and of course Bristol-Myers-Squibb, a major international pharmaceutical company. When my husband and I decided to set up a family-based website, back in the mists of time, we found that all the obvious domain names for Squibb had been taken. No .com, .co.uk, .org and such available. So being happy internationalists, we took the domain squibb.eu. We set up email addresses for family and work, and started with a family website, but after a long period of inactivity on the site, I pinched it to use for my training and Excel solutions work.
Fast forward to BREXIT. It seems that, once the UK is no longer part of the EU, we cannot use the .eu top-level domain any more and it will be withdrawn soon after we leave. Time for a major rethink. For a while, I considered re-registering the domain in the name of a friend or family member with an EU address. I have various friends who live abroad, but they are mostly elderly, technophobic, or only live in the EU for part of the year, so after giving it brief thought, I felt this would be an unwanted burden for anybody who might agree to take it on. And actually it makes sense to bite the bullet and reorganise everything at one time.
So in the near future, there will be a shiny new website, focussed much more on my client base: www.excelstuff.co.uk. I’m not making this link live, as I have not started working on the site yet. I have a couple of months’ grace and would like to launch it in a fit state. The family side of things will be back in its own domain and may even sprout its own website again one day.
