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If google servers decided tomorrow to shut down your domain, because the anti-fraud algorithm decided that the use of the domain has patterns which it decided is indicative of fraud, what would you do? All there is a computer saying that it de-registered the domain name and all the support options becomes a circle of the computer saying that it de-registered the domain name.

To me that is a risk. Through I have no evidence for this, I think that the false positives of those algorithms are higher than the risk of a hacker managing to social engineer a high end registrar. The reason I think so is that there is very little incentive for google to eliminate false positives but a huge one for eliminating false negatives.




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