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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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Post by sebmellen »

TLDRisk wrote: post #25

> Just for context, this is a premium domain with a very high premium renewal fee, no history of abuse obviously. The registry premium domains on the new TLDs have several issues. The biggest IMO is a lack of price protection. Non-premium domains at least get the cohort based protection from section 2.10c of the registry agreement. So, in addition to being treated as a 2nd rate domain, there’s nothing stopping the re…

Do you have a list of TLDs that don’t charge for premium domains? E.g. I have never seen a Registry Premium .com domain.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by CGamesPlay »

> 3.) Fictitious Domain Considerations: As you may know, domains that has ".web" have faced issues related to fictitious domain name usage. While ".one" is not ".web" the combination of the subdomain and TLD triggers similar security protocols.

This is an LLM response. It's the classic pattern where the LLM says something completely unrelated to the topic at hand, realizes that it doesn't have a backspace key, and tries to hedge it in.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by dannyw »

TLDRisk wrote: post #25

> Just for context, this is a premium domain with a very high premium renewal fee, no history of abuse obviously. The registry premium domains on the new TLDs have several issues. The biggest IMO is a lack of price protection. Non-premium domains at least get the cohort based protection from section 2.10c of the registry agreement. So, in addition to being treated as a 2nd rate domain, there’s nothing stopping the re…

All more reason to stick with standard TLDs like .com, .org, .net, and your country’s TLD when you can.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by dannyw »

hkt wrote: post #54
qingcharles wrote: post #16

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.

I've got a .email domain which various UK based retailers insist isn't a real domain from which email can be sent. I've been trying to convince Argos that it is real for about seven years. 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.

It probably made its way onto a Jira backlog somewhere, and some engineer thankfully took it as a 1 story point task.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by anonzzzies »

an0malous wrote: post #35
an0malous wrote: post #31

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…

I’m also worried that this is just the future of SaaS where everything is a Kafkaesque nightmare of automated processes no one even understands anymore, and even these incidents are lost in so much complexity the businesses either don’t care or don’t even know it’s happening.

It already is, that’s why I prefer companies I can physically visit. My hosting, email, payments for my company are now places I can reach within hours and just have a chat. In person, people are a lot less nasty and they cannot yet (…) fob me off with an AI.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #62

> 3.) Fictitious Domain Considerations: As you may know, domains that has ".web" have faced issues related to fictitious domain name usage. While ".one" is not ".web" the combination of the subdomain and TLD triggers similar security protocols. This is an LLM response. It's the classic pattern where the LLM says something completely unrelated to the topic at hand, realizes that it doesn't have a backspace key, and tr…

There needs to be a Hanlon’s razor but for suspecting something is LLM generated. The typo and grammar mistakes in the response lead me to think it’s a human, but no way to really know.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by eco »

jofzar wrote: post #55
dmd wrote: post #15

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"

I was trying to activate Zelle with my bank and since Zelle is used for scams so often I had to do a bunch of identity verification steps while on the phone with my bank.

One of them was to submit a photo of my drivers license. After I did that it OCRed out some details and prepopulated a form with my information. Hitting submit gave me an error saying to use my full middle name, not an initial. My full middle name is a single letter though.

The person on the phone with my bank had no idea what to do and just kept asking me try again.

I busted out my elite hacker skills though and added a space to the end of the middle name field and was able to steal my own identity.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by davidd_1004 »

an0malous wrote: post #31

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…

I have the same issue but just for Google Cloud thankfully. Never got a response when I filled in the text field. When I contacted support they kept asking me do go to things in the Google Cloud dashboard (that I was banned from). Then eventually the person said they'd escalate and I'd get an email but I never got anything. Maybe I'll try calling a sales number.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by Matheus28 »

natpalmer1776 wrote: post #66
CGamesPlay wrote: post #62

> 3.) Fictitious Domain Considerations: As you may know, domains that has ".web" have faced issues related to fictitious domain name usage. While ".one" is not ".web" the combination of the subdomain and TLD triggers similar security protocols. This is an LLM response. It's the classic pattern where the LLM says something completely unrelated to the topic at hand, realizes that it doesn't have a backspace key, and tr…

There needs to be a Hanlon’s razor but for suspecting something is LLM generated. The typo and grammar mistakes in the response lead me to think it’s a human, but no way to really know.

I GUARANTEE that was written by AI. This type of slop is unmistakable

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by dabbz »

an0malous wrote: post #31

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…

Yea I really resonated with the messaging and mission of Migadu. Super reliable hosting. Have had it for nearly 5 years now. (of course now that I recommend it, I bet they're going to have an outage...)
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