Your domain has a 20+ year ownership history. Are you the first owner? The suggestion that you switch to .com could be a subtle way to tell you that your domain has a bad reputation that cannot be fixed. Once Google thinks a domain is bad, it’s hard to change their mind. If you’re not the first owner, you don’t know what the previous owners did using the domain.
Good shout, I never even considered this. Now that you mention it, I did buy the domain from a seller back in 2020, so yes perhaps this has something to do with it.
I'm checking web.archive.org and it all looks pretty innocent so far apart from the domain for sale pages that started around 2011
Yeah, in that case, they're simultaneously hinting that you've been caught in an ML capture net, yet provide you with a means to bypass it, negating the automated mechanism they used to prevent bad behaviour in the first place.
