A pro-Brexit lobby group has moved its registered office for its website to Waterford to retain its EU web address.
Leave.EU which was set up by Brexiteer Aaron Wright and fronted by Nigel Farage, would have lost its domain if it kept its original address in Bristol.
The unusual move was initially reported by Euractiv as over 80,000 .eu domain suffixes belonging to British users were suspended following Brexit.
Fine Gael’s spokesperson for European Affairs says the group wants to retain the "dot EU" status to stay at the top of search engine results and for social media branding.
Neale Richmond says the organisation is undermining the rules:
"It's clearly a change of address, [but] their office is still in operation in Bristol.
"We can't have a situation where a company is simply brass-plating an office in Ireland to use the dot .eu or indeed the .ie domain name."
