Smells like „product engineering“. So a product or an engineering lead gets a task to reduce risks of specific abuse by preventing someone from sending email from yahoo or web.de clone. As a quick solution they add this filter without „overthinking“ it. The impact is low, a few customers in a million, so its stupidity gets unnoticed and, once first complaint reaches them, quietly deprioritized to death. Removing it is cheap: the justification for taking that work is likely the show stopper. Google is an old large corp that hires and fires at a scale. Owning removal of abuse filter to increase revenue by Planck-sized amount is an impossible thing.
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)
#12Just wait for someone at Google to read this post and then block the domain retrospectively.
And ban their entire Google account
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#13I 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.
fair enough. at least not primarily an email provider. so if they offer any email.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#14The end is really hilarious. Google had a stupid frontend-only validation, it seems.
Since Google themselves claim that's a security check, there's a bug bounty here.
The author of that article missed their chance making Google eat their words.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#15I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or starts with a number (obviously impossible).
And like the author, 90% of the time I can just disable their front-end validation and go on my merry way.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#16I use a .one for a project where it makes perfect sense. Brevo, who are a huge email delivery platform, told me they don't support signing up with a .one domain. Fortunately, after a couple of weeks going back-and-forth one of their developers eventually saw sense and fixed it.
Sadly, with Google, I don't think you'll ever get the issue that far up the chain.
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
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#18ooof that's bad, all levels of support missed the frontend validation and blamed you and an opaque non-existent process instead
Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
#19Since the author asked about Alice: it was an Internet provider in France in the early 2000's.
Some domains in that list are truly ancient. That was a trip down memory lane.