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Namely, it seems impossible to archive users despite the fact that we have a business account and have already archived numerous former employees.
If 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.
Plus, any entity large enough probably has some kind of account manager or contact in Google that could hopefully escalate to the right person.
My business Workspace account got suspended recently, no reason given, can’t even login to contact support. I’m a solo user so I only had one admin account and that was the one locked out. There was just one text field to submit an appeal, so I did. I never got any email confirmation or tracking number for my appeal, it’s been a week now with no contact from Google. This happened about a week after they charged my cr…
A cheap 2.5Gb how from racknerd, $20-22/year, + domain.
It's been as smooth sailing as any other email provider.
Very satisfied.
Try it
I 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.
To their credit, my building society actually took it all on board and fixed their system within a few months. To my incredible surprise, so did a major insurer.
I 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.
As usual, this is more than just an honest mistake from Google. Not only is the given justification complete gibberish, it has AI written all over it. They have zero respect for users and it shows.
But then I saw the work around at it turned out it was just incompetence compounding.
I 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.
My friend has a short last name, and they still have many websites be like "must be longer then 3 letter"
The end is really hilarious. Google had a stupid frontend-only validation, it seems.
I was under the impression Google engineers went through a rigorous hiring process, yet this is the sort of thing you get from lowest bidder consultants who have inexperienced devs.
I 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.