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NEVER BUY A .ONLINE DOMAIN

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This dev's `.online` domain for a simple app project was unexpectedly blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing and placed on `serverHold` by the Radix registry, despite the site containing only benign information. It became completely inaccessible without any prior notification to the dev. They then encountered a Catch-22: the registry demanded Google's delisting, but Google's verification process required an active, resolving domain, which the `serverHold` prevented.