The TLD owner in this case was Radix, which also owns
.store .online .tech .site .fun .pw .host .press .space .uno .website
Never buy a .online domain
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Re: Never buy a .online domain
#12Hot Take: the proactive action of the registrar here is probably more beneficial than the number of false positives captured. If the registrar is aware that Google is hot on blocking potentially harmful sites, it's right that they take action expeditiously.
The bigger problem is the unbanning - for which there should be a better system, probably that should take the form of the registrar having a short grace period to aid in the Google stuff (DNS verification etc.) with additional checks by the registrar to make sure it's not being used for spam/malicious content.
The other point being why was Google banning you so quickly? This is the opaque part. Was the site reported? Was there some URL hijinks? That's the thing you'll probably never find out.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#13The .com purist advice is sound but you're not getting four-letter domain names that way, and in some ccTLD zones you can still. I was price-gouged out of owning a single, rare .icu domain when renewal fee for it went from 20 usd to 220 usd overnight, just for this one domain... I'm pretty sure it's not Gandi, but the TLD opetator, because other .icu domains I've had were fine. I decided to eventually abandon them al…
Yeah, what the heck happened to Gandi? It used to be my go-to, but nowadays... yikes!
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#14Are there any other TLDs that are of this ilk or are we saying nothing but .com will ever do? Or .org, perhaps?
I would love a list of Radix TLDs or registrars who do this Safe Browsing ban with no appeal.
Also, go figure Namecheap works with these morons.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#15I blame both the registry and Google.
If you were a lawyer, you could have fun with this.
Btw, perhaps unrelatedly, we had a domain marked as unsafe by Google as well for no particular reason.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#16Last year, my registrar wanted €64,99 to extend an online domain which I had created for fun.
No thanks.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#17I still remember how Google banned my entire account without providing a reason for a small Android app (more than 12 years ago). To this day I have no idea why, it was absolutely green-area fit tracker or something. There was absolutely no way to know the reason or unblock my account. Turned me away from Android development forever.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#18> The domain ... has been suspended due to its blacklisting on Google Safe Browsing
Et voilà ... ! this is precisely the slippery slope I warned about a decade ago. The indirect censorship becomes direct censorship, defeating all the arguments about the morality of such a list. And:
> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any content on the domain, so I thought, why bother? Big, big mistake.
Yet more monopolistic power to Google.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#19So, how is this not libel by Google? The claim was that you were running an "unsafe site". Its their job to prove that, and not just "black box says so". And you have system and reputational damages. Go for small claims suit, $5000. It'll cost more than that for their attorney to go to your jurisdiction.
This is libel, indeed.
Re: Never buy a .online domain
#20The registrar relying on Google Safe Browsing as a “trigger” for suspension is the most horrifying thing I’ve seen in a while. This basically makes the entire TLD unviable for serious use.