-->Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider<br>Published Oct 7, 2025 | Updated Aug 23, 2026

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Update:<br>As of August 2026, this issue is still present.

I was creating a Google Workspace account for my company, as everyone knows, it’s a pretty straightforward sign-up process, until I’m hit with a weird, confusing error when I type my domain name:

“Enter a valid domain name instead of an email provider”

Huh? An email provider? What does this mean?

I thought maybe my domain was previously used as an email provider, so I look up the history of the domain, but nope, that’s not it.

I look up the error and find no official documentation by Google. However, I see that I’m not the only one to have come across it,<br>there are a few community threads posted by people asking for help.

Believe it or not, one of those threads was by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy; they were getting the same error for their domain. And of course, the so-called “experts” of the community provide the most useless response as always:

Left with no solution, I had to contact Google Workspace support. After being asked by multiple agents “Have you tried to create this to another browser?”, when I had already explained to them that I did, they transferred me to their high-level support specialist, Karen, who again asked me to try to sign up using another device, and I told her, again, that I have tried.

Then she asked me to record a video and wait for their product engineers to review it, and I did, and a few hours later I get an email:

Ok, I give it a try, and nope, the issue still persists.

One week later, I receive another email:

So let me get this right: they are suggesting that I use another domain for my company because their system WRONGLY flagged my legitimate domain, and they don’t even know exactly why.

Just for context, this is a premium domain with a very high premium renewal fee, no history of abuse obviously. And the .one TLD is a legit TLD used by legit businesses.

It seems like even their product engineers gave up and went ahead and gave a lazy response.

After replying with an angry response, left with no solution, I was about to ditch Google completely and head over to Microsoft, but I thought I would give it one last try and take the matter into my own hands.

I debug the source code of their sign-up page, and I find that the error is triggered by a local input validation function. They are checking the domain against a regex list of what seems to be email providers, though looking closely, there are a lot of weird entries on the list, one of which is web\\..*, the culprit preventing me from signing up my domain.

So apparently, engineers at Google decided that all web.[tld] domains are email providers…

And the entry me\\..* prevents the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy’s domain, me.gov.ua, from being accepted. Just because its subdomain is me.

One other entry is alice\\..*-not sure what’s up with that.

Here’s the full code snippet from the Google Workspace sign-up page for those interested:

var DHa, EHa;<br>DHa = "gmail\\..* hotmail\\..* yahoo\\..* myyahoo\\.com outlook\\..* aol\\..* inbox\\..* fastmail\\..* mail\\..{1,3}(\\..{2})?$ rediffmail\\..* lycos\\..* att\\..* comcast\\.net verizon\\..* talktalk\\..* laposte\\..* gmx\\..* web\\..* bk\\..* yandex\\..* rambler\\..* pochta\\..* live\\..* cox\\..* bellsouth\\..* me\\..* earthlink\\..* sbcglobal\\..* qq\\..* ceznam\\..* 163\\..* 126\\..* free\\..* sfr\\..* wanadoo\\..* aruba\\..* terra\\..* btinternet\\..* alice\\..* libero\\..* telenet\\..* corp\\.terra\\.com\\.co mac\\.com webstarts\\.com googlemail\\.com msn\\.com teleworm\\.com isbn10\\.net isbn13\\.net ymail\\.com mailinator\\.com pookmail\\.com trashymail\\.com dodgit\\.com spambob\\.com dotarai\\.co\\.th appspeople\\.dk indiamart\\.com pkt\\.pl naver\\.com seznam\\.cz hemsida24\\.se shaw\\.ca ncs\\.com\\.sg rogers\\.com rocketmail\\.com ukr\\.net charter\\.net uol\\.com\\.br ya\\.ru bigpond\\.com idwebhost\\.com vkios\\.com registar\\.com cpasitesolutions\\.com optonline\\.net iridiuminteractive\\.com data-typing-earns\\.info smartpillars\\.com nate\\.com list\\.ru o2\\.pl riaenjolie\\.com ii-ii-ii-ii\\.com wp\\.pl therapysites\\.com mef\\.gob\\.pe theiconweb\\.com hanmail\\.net nordicweb\\.com havealook\\.com ig\\.com\\.br skepy\\.com nameisp\\.com optusnet\\.com\\.au creativemotiondesign nifty\\.com ntlworld\\.com petamatic\\.com telus\\.net msa\\.hinet\\.net sympatico\\.ca bojanowski\\.pl bing\\.com zlatestranky\\.cz xtra\\.co\\.nz sina\\.com bluewin\\.ch bol\\.com\\.br centrum\\.cz mindspring\\.com juno\\.com yourha\\.com photobiz\\.com aim\\.com videotron\\.ca blueyonder\\.co\\.uk email\\.cz tiscali\\.it tiscali\\.co\\.uk hosting\\.com\\.pe in\\.com teamunify\\.com sky\\.com idium\\.no family-address\\.ru pelsoftlabs\\.in pobox\\.com sakaryarehberim\\.com email\\.com iinet\\.net\\.au websites\\.ca globo\\.com code49\\.net...