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I have been exclusively using a .so domain for about 10 years and never experienced any of these issues. What specific network blocks it?
You can see a bunch of users reporting this issue in the link the user above posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d...
There isn't any indication the blocking is worse than most other TLDs.
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You wonder why there is any filtering on sms ...
Because spam really is that rampant. There aren't that many communication systems with a small search domain of user ids where anyone can send and receive messages from anyone by default.
The reality of Internet filtering and firewalls, and a rule generalisable to any attempt at control and autonomy, is that the effect-to-effort ratio matters. The principle of a small effort with a large result is behind the architecture of every switch, gate, door, valve, or dam. New generic TLDs have the disadvantage of being recently unleashed. There are no venerable sites on XYZ, or its siblings. Much of what's re…
> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers. This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or ph…
This is my new mini-favorite thing. It feels a bit like a redux of "Shirt without stripes" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925087)...
> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers. This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or ph…
(1st biggest spam channel being email, which surprise/surprise - Twilio also dominates via SendGrid)
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I have this same problem with "obscure" .net domains. My text messages are silently dropped. The only work around I found is to not include http:// , just use the bare domain. Personally, I find this behavior of my SMS provider reprehensible.
I ran into this recently even on Facebook Messenger. A friend of mine was hunting for a short domain name and I had a list of some three character .net and .org domains I recently had found that were available. Cut and pasted the list and the message wouldn't send. Narrowed it down to one. Typed just the bare domain. Wouldn't go through. (It was something incredibly benign like n17.org) Couldn't find a history on tha…
> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers. This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or ph…
Most of these new TLDs are just the .biz of the present moment. I went to email whitelist a decade ago and haven’t looked back.
That said, I've got a 'clever' .pictures I use to share images and a totally appropriate .fun that has no need to have positive domain associations.