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Cool bug. Google did not like me setting up a chess.com subdomain, and a couple of weeks later, my domain got flagged for "phishing." - I had to contact them
by mmsc 3y ago
Cool bug.
Google did not like me setting up a chess.com subdomain, and a couple of weeks later, my domain got flagged for "phishing." - I had to contact them to explain and manually remove it as it affected my whole domain.
What? Google’s domain registrar will close your account if you have a subdomain which just happens to be named another website?
- JakeSkii 3y agoOP - I'm honestly not sure what happened, it could be just based on the naming or something else to do with it. Either way, when I visited it, Googles Safe Browsing alert popped up with "Deceptive site ahead - recentley detected phishing".
- lobsterthief 3y agoThis is a newish _Chrome_ feature (within the past 2 years) that Google rolled out. Any subdomain that looks like a domain (especially ending in a common TLD) will trigger that warning. I learned that because, at work, I architected a system for serving certain assets for customer sites at a subdomain off a shared root domain, keyed by their full domain (like example.com.example.org—where example.com is the customer’s site domain). We ended up changing to example-com.example.org which is far better anyways since this feature started breaking stuff once it rolled out. But this is a Chrome feature and should not affect your rankings themselves. But couldn’t hurt to take it down just in case.
- JakeSkii 3y agoInteresting, thanks for the insight!