Postmortem: GitBook domains blocked by registrar (Google Domains)

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29 pointsWayToDoor4 comments

This makes me nervous as I have registered several of my personal domains with Google Domains. So far I have resisted having my main personal domain with Google.

Kind of scary that they would suspend your domain registration because they think it is being used for something wrong and notify you after the fact.

Though like the author, I have also been moving things to Cloudflare over time.

Kind of fascinating that a domain provider can suspend your entire large-scale domain if there is are malicious actors using the service.

Can the Dropbox domain be suspended the same way? Google Forms?

An even better question would be, why would a domain registrar block your domain at all, if it isn't for a court order ? Is it really their duty to police content of websites hosted under the domains they are selling ?

Look, I get it if the domain itself in its entirety is malicious. For example, someone mimicking a bank website or using it to distribute malware. This seems different.

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