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Re: Never buy a .online domain

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They got sold to private equity, unfortunately. I switched to Bookmyname (by Scaleway) for some TLDs, and Infomaniak for others.

Can we trust Cloud registrars like Bookmyname/Scaleway, Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare more than Namecheap, Gandi and co?

I think that it's a good thing when domains aren't their main source of income. It gives them more incentive to provide good, stable experience and pricing.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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> The bigger problem is the unbanning The was my first thought as well. Yes, using the Safe Browsing list feels wrong, but I don't know enough to speak definitively in that regards. However wouldn't a relatively simple solution be that if a registrar is choosing to use some third party's list of banned DNS entries that the registrar then also implement sufficient unblocked components that will allow people to be unba…

There is _some amount_ of justification to ban TXT. There have been a few cases of C2 servers using DNS to send instructions to malware, so letting TXT slip through the cracks would still allow for that. Now whether this downside justifies the massive problem it causes on false positives...

yes, but in that cases we are on the "this (should) involve a criminal investigation" level not on a "Google Safe Search" doesn't trust you level

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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> 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 cont…

How was this Google’s fault? Seems clearly like Radix’s fault.

It's both's fault. Google for making false and clearly damaging statements (libel) and Radix for acting on them.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Why was the domain blacklisted though? What can we do to prevent blacklisting in the first place?

That’s my question. I’ve launched many fresh websites that have not been marked as unsafe by Google. If they were habitually doing this, there would be far more reports of it.

I suspect there is something the author is not telling us.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Google’s allowed to have an opinion. But that doesn’t mean that the registrar should be suspending the domain immediately in response. These two mechanisms should be decoupled.

Google should not be allowed to make libelous statements without consequences.

(IAAL but this is not legal advice.)

It’s not libel. Defamation requires a false statement of fact. Marking a website as “unsafe” is an opinion.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Why was the domain blacklisted though? What can we do to prevent blacklisting in the first place?

The big scary red warning page should at least tell you it’s phishing or malware or something else. OP didn’t have a screenshot of that. You can easily go to a safe browsing test site yourself at testsafebrowsing.appspot.com and find that Google does divulge the category of the blacklisting.

OP says:

> no gore or violence or anything of that sort

That’s not even the right criteria. OP is confused about Google Safe Browsing vs Safe Search.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

#100
post #83

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How was this Google’s fault? Seems clearly like Radix’s fault.

It's both's fault. Google for making false and clearly damaging statements (libel) and Radix for acting on them.

(IAAL but this is not legal advice.)

It’s not libel. Defamation requires a false statement of fact. Marking a website as “unsafe” is an opinion.

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