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It is pretty common that "weird" tlds get blocked more or less whole sale in places you might not expect.

The reason is spam. Before these can get wide spread "normal" adoption they can be heavily used by spammers. Its hard to say if that is because they have desirable look-a-likes available, or if its because the first year is offered at a deep discount. So, systems will get flooded, and on inspection they will see that they don't have any legit traffic from those tlds and will whole sale block them.

.xyz is kind of infamous for being in this situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

I have no idea if that applies to .coop though.



.xyz is open registration and is known to be a spam/abuse source. .coop is restricted to legally-formed cooperatives. Apples and oranges.


I wonder if you can count on some crappy enterprise firewall to make that distinction.


Pretty sure it is because they are cheep for the first year. And the blocks are often for domains younger than one year, instead of whole tld.


How does `.coop` get used for spam when you need to prove you’re an actual cooperative to get one?


coop has around 12 years of age on xyz at least.




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