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One conclusion is: > Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't understand. What is Google Search Console, and should I add all my domains there right now?
https://search.google.com/search-console And yes, you probably should, if only to pre-register your ownership thereof if google ever decides to nuke you from orbit
> The domain ... has been suspended due to its blacklisting on Google Safe Browsing Et voilà ... ! this is precisely the slippery slope I warned about a decade ago. The indirect censorship becomes direct censorship, defeating all the arguments about the morality of such a list. And: > Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any cont…
Are there any other TLDs that are of this ilk or are we saying nothing but .com will ever do? Or .org, perhaps?
Some of these TLD also get thrown under weird arbitrary blacklists by security vendors. Sorry, can’t buy a frame.work laptop because that’s a “Malicious TLD”, according to the folks at ZScaler.
Why was the domain blacklisted though? What can we do to prevent blacklisting in the first place?
From false alarm to something previous owner did. Remember domain is recycled.
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?
The problem is the vanity domain registrar Radix using that as a reason to _put the whole domain on hold, including all subdomains, email entries etc._
This means:
- no way to fix accidental wrong "safe search" blacklisting
- if it was your main domain no mails with all the things it entails
- no way to redirect API servers, apps etc. to a different domain. In general it's not just the website which it's down it's all app, APIs, or anything you had on that domain
Google Safe search is meant to help keep chrome users safe from phishing etc. it is fundamentally not designed to be a Authority Institute which can unilaterally dictate which domains are no longer usable at all.
Like basically what Radix did was a full domain take down of the kind you normally need a judge order for... cause by a safe browsing helper service misfiring. That is is RALLY bad, and they refuse to fix their mistake, too.
You normally don't have _that_ level of fundamentally broken internal processes absurdity with the more reputable TLD operators (which doesn't mean you don't have that in edge cases, but this isn't an edge case this is there standard policy).
The TLD owner in this case was Radix, which also owns .store .online .tech .site .fun .pw .host .press .space .uno .website https://radix.website/
They seem to be almost always associated with scam sites. So, might as well to block entire TLDs and never buy a domain under those TLDs
Are there any other TLDs that are of this ilk or are we saying nothing but .com will ever do? Or .org, perhaps?
The ones used by freenom were particularly abused: https://prezkennedy.com/2026/01/15/the-free-domain-trap-the-... > Freenom’s terms of service allowed them to “cancel” a free domain at any time without warning. Users reported for years that as soon as their free site started getting significant traffic (and becoming valuable), Freenom would reclaim the domain and fill it with ads, effectively hijacking the user’s ha…
Why was the domain blacklisted though? What can we do to prevent blacklisting in the first place?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://search.google.com/search-console And yes, you probably should, if only to pre-register your ownership thereof if google ever decides to nuke you from orbit
But if Google decides to nuke me from orbit, and my domain is registered there, the nuke can cross between my domain and my Google account.