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Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by -Fu »

rationalist wrote: post #81
NikolaNovak wrote: post #22

Oh man. The infinite loops of impossible verification by large companies that should know better are massive pain peeve of mine. This goes right to the top for me, along the ubiquitous "please verify your account" emails with NO OPTION to click "that's NOT me, somebody misused my email". Either people who do this for a living have no clue how to do their job, or, depressingly more likely, their goals are just complet…

Someone constantly adds my Gmail address as their Gmail account's backup address. I constantly remove it whenever Gmail sends me the notification. I can't help but think there is some method for the other person to steal my Gmail account if I never remove my email as their backup.

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Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by ssiddharth »

MattSayar wrote: post #178

Took me a minute to realize Sid isn't associated with 0xide.computer. Clever domain name! Getting Google to index my personal site has been a pain. Every other search engine works fine, but ever since I switched the images on my site to .webp (a format created by Google!), my site's content just doesn't get indexed anymore. I've given up since web search traffic matters less and less these days with LLMs, and it only…

Ha, thank you. I spent more time than I'm willing to admit to come up with it.

I use my older, much longer domain for email and identity (it used to be #3 on SERP for "Sid"). This one is just for giggles so I can blog in peace without affecting the main one.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by kstrauser »

tracker1 wrote: post #300
krickelkrackel wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like leaving your bike in the street, with no lock. Still theft, but you'd be up for a part of the responsibility.

No, it's like giving someone a set of keys to your car, and they take it for a drive.

I think it’s more like you registered the car in their name. Now they’re allowed to use it, and also responsible for the thing which they didn’t want.

Consider that the “imposter” starts uploading child porn or something, and it’s on an account registered to your address. I think it’s perfectly A-OK to tell the service that it’s not me using the thing and I want them to close the account someone created in my name.

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by eappleby »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #31
eappleby wrote: post #21

Unfortunate story. It wasn't clear to me that the .online TLD led to Google blacklisting the site. Why did you think that was connected?

My understanding from the article is that because the registrar for this domain is using Google safe browsing for their domain suspension, something that a) shouldn't be the case and b) isn't the case for other, perhaps more mainstream TLDs

Right. Sounds more like a registrar problem than a TLD problem. They should change the article title to "Never buy a domain from Radix"

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by jarek83 »

So this happened only because google is so big, that it can point to any website and say that it's not safe. Even if owner of a site just don't want to be in their search engine in the first place.

How on earth we ended up with this company bother anyone including those that want their services? Imagine that you could get your driving license banned because you did not buy a toyota...

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by Arrowmaster »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #22

Oh man. The infinite loops of impossible verification by large companies that should know better are massive pain peeve of mine. This goes right to the top for me, along the ubiquitous "please verify your account" emails with NO OPTION to click "that's NOT me, somebody misused my email". Either people who do this for a living have no clue how to do their job, or, depressingly more likely, their goals are just complet…

I'm currently in the endless email loop because someone named Raymond used one of my Gmail names to register with State Farm. One of their agents even emails me directly when he gets really behind on his payments but won't do anything when I tell them it's the wrong email.

In the past when this happens I usually reset the password and change the email to some anon throwaway but I can't do that without Raymonds DOB (don't quote me on that, been a while since I tried).

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by NikolaNovak »

nativeit wrote: post #158
Romario77 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I logged in several times to other people's accounts and reset their passwords. But it's too tiring, people keep adding my email. I hope it's because I have small simple email and not because they want to steal it.

You’re confessing to several actual felonies here, may want to change strategies.

Right. Techies are always quick to suggest I do something naughty or funny with this "great power" I've unwittingly gained, but in reality it's just a liability. If I ignore it and they do something nasty and implicate me, it's a pain. If I touch it with a 10 ft pole, now I'm even more actively involved.

Just include "not me!" In the verification email, dam it

Re: Never buy a .online domain

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Post by rationalist »

tracker1 wrote: post #278
delecti wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried sending them emails asking/telling them to stop?

There are times where you just can't... someone uses my email address in person at tractor supply co. and I'm getting a ton of marketing email I can't usnsub to. I've had this happen several times... There's a lawyer I used for a dispute a few years ago, and they now have another "First Last" name that matches mine, and he keeps emailing me... my reply, "Wrong Michael, again..." It's kind of annoying all around... I…

Contact the Bar Association for that lawyer's state. He will definitely stop making that mistake then.
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