I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found that it had been reported to xyz as abuse, and they must have done zero investigation whatsoever before serverholding my domain. I thought about opening a ticket with xyz to get my domain back, but realized that I no longer wish to buy from some shitty company that will take down any site without warning. Bought a .com domain since they are somewhat reputable, and I would advise everyone here to never buy a .xyz domain. Angry rant over.
Also, don‘t use it for any mail servers. Spam Assassin gives a negative score by default on *.xyz domains. Stupid as shit, but I had to learn the hard way.
Shit. I have my peraonal domain hosted on .xyz for email. Guess time to migrate. Any TLD suggestions?
Most email providers will automatically put emails coming from .xyz to spam. I’d advise against using any “new TLDs”, if you can. But if you must, avoid those that are frequently used for spamming. A lot of spam detectors will already score your emails as suspicious just for the TLD.
See for example, https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/pds/20_ntld.cf
Most of the entire internet cannot run without Cloudflare for a reason. Just buy directly from the source.
@HumanPerson @selfhosted Thanks for the heads up, several times I was this close to buy one. Glad I didn’t.
I received so much spam and abuse of my network from .xyz domains that they are fully blocked in every conceivable way from being accessed or accessing my network.
Eh while it sucks, registrars and web hosts get so many abuse reports that sometimes they just err on the side of caution and don’t investigate as thoroughly as you’d like.
Of course it also depends a lot on various things like what type of complaint, how much money you spend with them, account history, complaint source, etc.
They should be able to tell you what they had a problem with and give you a chance to fix it.