Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
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Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
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Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#3The end is really hilarious. Google had a stupid frontend-only validation, it seems.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#4alice.it is indeed an email provider's domain; based on the code snippet it seems like they are active in other countries.
alice.app however isn't registered anywhere.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#5I would hope that somewhere at Google there is a policy that says you can't do anti-fraud and security checks in frontend only...
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#6This was a fun read. Absolutely baffling behaviour from Google.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#7If you could just change your company's domain name that'd be swell!
Surprising Google is happy to lose a paying company over this.
Although the author is taking quite the risk bypassing Google's validation like that. Not sure I'd be risking my company's workspace to do it in case Google wakes up ban hammer happy one morning.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#8I wonder how this list ended up being created anyway. Was it a long standing issue, or just some ai slop? web.com, web.org, web.net don't look like an email provider.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#9Just wait for someone at Google to read this post and then block the domain retrospectively.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#10I wonder how this list ended up being created anyway. Was it a long standing issue, or just some ai slop? web.com, web.org, web.net don't look like an email provider.
web.net, at least, absolutely is an email provider.