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by waiseristy 1737 days ago
The XYZ TLD is a hotbed for spam due to it's very low fee's for purchase / renewal. The registrar was, at one point, selling massive blocks of xyz domains to foreign squatters and spam artists for quick cash. No wonder it's become blacklisted by email/cell providers.

Can anyone try `abc.xyz`? and see if that fails to send? It would be very typical for our corporate overlords to be omitted from our spam censorship filters.

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>The text including the .xyz link is notably absent. Until I realized what was happening, I would sometimes have some very strange text exchanges with people whenever I would mention my company or my email address. Once we switched to spotvirtual.com, this issue went away.

>Ironically, Google Voice also has the same behavior with abc.xyz.