Why was the domain blacklisted though? What can we do to prevent blacklisting in the first place?

Most definitely nothing, as no sentient humans are probably involved in the process except possibly malicious people that report a site in bad faith.

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voidUpdate 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If the domain is being given away for free, it will be used a lot for scams etc, so a lot of systems will just start blocking it immediately. When I got my first domain, I used one of the free TLDs and my university blocked it completely due to it being a scam. Not for any of the content on it, just the TLD being commonly used by scammers

	▲	zadikian 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably cause of things like "southwest.online"

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otterley 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s my question. I’ve launched many fresh websites that have not been marked as unsafe by Google. If they were habitually doing this, there would be far more reports of it.

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

	▲	bilkow 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even if the false-positive rate is very small (e.g. 0.01%), you probably won't be affected, but more than a hundred thousand of websites would be and that would still be an issue. I have no idea how big is the false-positive rate. There are many of reports of the same happening to other sites, some of the top ones (you can find many more by searching HN for "google safe browsing"): - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33526893 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675015

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nguyenkien 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From false alarm to something previous owner did. Remember domain is recycled.

	▲	ssiddharth 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The domain has no history as far as I could search and the site was up for almost 6 weeks with no issues before it was nuked. I used it with Apple's review process!

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kccqzy 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The big scary red warning page should at least tell you it’s phishing or malware or something else. OP didn’t have a screenshot of that. You can easily go to a safe browsing test site yourself at testsafebrowsing.appspot.com and find that Google does divulge the category of the blacklisting.

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.

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ssiddharth 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I just wanted to cover all the bases. The site has one outgoing link to the App Store and 3 screenshots.

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kccqzy 8 hours ago | parent [-]

That sounds like a competitor of yours manually submitting your site to Google for “impersonating” them or something. Anyone can submit URLs to Google to suggest it be blocked: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ Perhaps some overworked underpaid analyst had a lapse of judgement. I’m sorry that this happens to you.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		wait, this actually makes things sound even worse because anyone who might not like your product can add it to google and google can sometimes be none the wiser and then add it to phishing link which could then lead to their domains (ie. any TLD's hosted by radix.website) being lost in void essentially unless you have verified the domain in google analytics and even then I would consider this whole situation to be so messy. At this point, NEVER buy any radix.website TLD domains. I am seeing pinggy had the same issue with their .online domain and this actually definitely caused hurt to their business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195410 (I saw this post from their comment in here referencing it)