On launch day, my domain was suspended 🚀😭

Hey, y'all!

It took me more time to figure out what happened than to build my product. 😅

Well, let's start with the product: gpic was built in 12 hours. It's a free image optimizer and hosting service. Hosted on Vercel, I decided to buy the following domain: gpic.site.

On Tuesday, I launched on ProductHunt, posted on DEV, Reddit, etc. Every hour people were voting, uploading images, etc. Great! (We got 120 images on our first day!)🥳

In the middle of the day, I got this on ProductHunt:

What a feeling. I was renting a car at the time, I stopped somewhere, turned the hotspot on, and started the process to see what happened. 🧐

Nothing on Namecheap. Started a chat with their support, they said that was "Vercel's fault" since I had changed the nameservers.

Vercel's support said that the problem was with Namecheap, and asked to check again. (Luckily, they took just a couple of hours, and not days as they say on the website).

The solution: change all the references for my product to http://gpic.vercel.app/.

Total downtime: 30 min.

After almost 2 days, Namecheap displayed this on my dashboard:

It seems that by a "Proactive Analysis", my domain was categorized as "Malware/Phishing". 😱

I contacted them, and now I'm waiting to see what happens.

What a ride. I never had this problem.
Whid did I buy that domain? Because it was $2 dollars. 💵
Lesson learned: have an action plan if something like this happens again.