The site is already back online after the post. You can check yourself. If I really did have malicious content on the site, this post would have had zero effect on the result.

How did you get it back online?

Oh wow, I didn’t even think of this use case. Could I please get in touch for a bit more info?

Ha, thank you. I spent more time than I'm willing to admit to come up with it.

I use my older, much longer domain for email and identity (it used to be #3 on SERP for "Sid"). This one is just for giggles so I can blog in peace without affecting the main one.

I can't be 100% sure but googling showed nothing. My site was up for almost 6 weeks with no issues. I used the domain for Apple's review process too. No issues at all.

I just wanted to cover all the bases. The site has one outgoing link to the App Store and 3 screenshots.

That sounds like a competitor of yours manually submitting your site to Google for “impersonating” them or something. Anyone can submit URLs to Google to suggest it be blocked: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ Perhaps some overworked underpaid analyst had a lapse of judgement. I’m sorry that this happens to you.

wait, this actually makes things sound even worse because anyone who might not like your product can add it to google and google can sometimes be none the wiser and then add it to phishing link which could then lead to their domains (ie. any TLD's hosted by radix.website) being lost in void essentially unless you have verified the domain in google analytics and even then I would consider this whole situation to be so messy.

At this point, NEVER buy any radix.website TLD domains.

I am seeing pinggy had the same issue with their .online domain and this actually definitely caused hurt to their business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195410 (I saw this post from their comment in here referencing it)

The domain has no history as far as I could search and the site was up for almost 6 weeks with no issues before it was nuked. I used it with Apple's review process!

To request a formal review, you must be a verified owner in Search Console.

I'm shocked there was no notification, or alert, of any kind. One moment you're there, the next, you're gone and no one will talk to you. Insanity.

The eternal tech outage aphorism: It's always DNS, except for when it's BGP.

You could argue BGP is like DNS for IPs :)

The author is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest online brokerage. Not that it matters, just an observation.

I thought they also OSSed a pretty solid https://github.com/frappe/helpdesk helpdesk but that was from Frappe, not Zerodha.

A CTO that codes? Interesting indeed.

That's pretty common in small companies. It's less common in large companies but can happen - you may use the "CTO" title for the founding engineer who still leads code and architecture, then hire someone under a different title (frequently "VP of Engineering") to handle the management / team growing side of the role.

That sounds like a reasonable split to me, so much so I’m not sure I’d understand why you’d want the same person handling both code/architecture and management.

CTO in my company* remains SME on a several components, commits to several production repositories (and expects the most stringent PR checks), and maintains couple of small tool used by us and the customers.

Its not that rare I think.

*small fintech with couple of billions in the accounts, not a startup, not a Fortune 500 company