Also, go figure Namecheap works with these morons.

Sorry, can’t buy a frame.work laptop because that’s a “Malicious TLD”, according to the folks at ZScaler.

Also, some TLDs directly speculate on having very low prices for the first year or two, then 10x it on year 2 or 3.

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 hard work.

You can also request Google to index your site on GSC as well.

You should probably add your websites to GSC.

Was called webmastertools before.

But if you do - you would get some notifications from Google about that website/domain.

I've only ever seen emails of the "There's an increase in 4xx/5xx errors on site/page(s)"

Google's way of tying real identifies of people to domains, without making it explicit.

Basically, your domain will be weirdly treated by a bunch of entities, none the less Google themselves, if you don't add your domain there (or some other Google property).

Especially with less common TLDs, like .online, they really want to be able to tie it to some identity, so unless you add it there, eventually your domain ends up on some sort of blacklist, in the case of the author it seems they used the "Google Safe Browsing" blacklist to get the author to involve Google somehow.

And yes, you probably should, if only to pre-register your ownership thereof if google ever decides to nuke you from orbit

it's not meant to have any other consequences

so basically what happens is that because of hearsay of google thinking you site is not bad Radix does what normally should involve a judge order (taking down the whole domain)

(1): Yes that still would cause damages on any site with customers, but like way less and way more fixable then what happened here.

(IAAL, but this is not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney for legal advice.)

So, might as well to block entire TLDs and never buy a domain under those TLDs

If the registrar tracks this information, a possibly helpful course of action would be to notify or warn the domain owner that they are on the list.

In the modern adversarial web, I do not want a registrar that proactively disables my domain because of some third party report.

The was my first thought as well. Yes, using the Safe Browsing list feels wrong, but I don't know enough to speak definitively in that regards. However wouldn't a relatively simple solution be that if a registrar is choosing to use some third party's list of banned DNS entries that the registrar then also implement sufficient unblocked components that will allow people to be unbanned from that third party?

> Add a DNS TXT or a CNAME record.

I haven't had a use-case for a TXT record come up yet, but isn't it low risk enough to allow domain owners to continue to configure TXT records even if the registrar wants to ban configuring other record types? Then the person in the article could prove ownership and could then get off of the third party ban list that the registrar was utilizing.

Even google safe search isn't blocking you site per-se, it just adds a very annoying "this site is not safe" dialog you can "somehow" bypass (but most people wont and don't know how).

Like if this where the main site of a company (which it very much could be) this would also have taken down mail, all APIs, all Apps relying on such APIs.

so no this is absurdly unreasonable actions

that they seem to neither know nor care that this makes it impossible to "fix" false positives with google isn't helpful put this in the area of high levels of negligence which can get you into a lot of trouble in the EU

On the flip side of the coin I cannot get a site removed that is a blatant rip off of one of our websites being actively used for invoice redirection fraud.

The external people treating these lists as absolute truths and automatically taking domains down are the ones at fault here. Google didn't grab power, Radix gave it to them without asking.

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).

I wonder if finding people responsible and spamming then with their own service emails would make the team care enough to fix this. But of course that's mostly dubious, probably illegal, and shouldn't be a responsibility of some vigilante hacker

I constantly remove it whenever Gmail sends me the notification.

I can't help but think there is some method for the other person to steal my Gmail account if I never remove my email as their backup.

I do wish there was a requirement for some sort of "no" button that would stop sending sign up requests entirely.

It is critical in the sense that if you want to appeal the decision in a case like this, it will go much better if you pre-verified that you own the domain.

(I don't think it has much effect on google search placement at all)

I suspect there is something the author is not telling us.

OP says:

> no gore or violence or anything of that sort

That’s not even the right criteria. OP is confused about Google Safe Browsing vs Safe Search.