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Tiny URL false positives because of new vanity sTLDs (.coffee .fits etc)

Just putting this out there as I am sure other sellers have these issues, but think they are alone or they are being given incorrect info by first tier support.

 

ICANN is now creating dozens (hundreds) of new vanity TLD using common words like Audio, Be, Fit, Coffee, post, travel, etc. etc. etc. etc.

So ebay is banning listings where those words appear after a period, and that includes longer words like ". Fits" would be flagged as "."fit

 

Ebay knows this is a problem, but they have instructed their reps to sandbag sellers who try and open tickets.

They will transfer you around to 3-8 different reps, each of which will take 10-15 to blow smoke up your thermal exhaust post and then transfer you to another rep.

They will blame it on your browser, your PC, your phone, your integrator, your surge protector and your router.

Eventually as ICANN creates more and more of these sTLD periods "." in item descriptions will be banned, then commas, etc, eventually we will be required to create a new language (sarcasm)

Audio =Audeo

Fit = phit

Be = b

Coffee = coughee

Tea = Tee

post = phost

travel = traval

etc to be compliant

 

eBay needs to address this as trying to resolve this and find the "bad word" takes hours of trial and error that none of have for this nonsense.

I understand ebay does not want links in listings, but sellers should be allowed to start sentences with common words like Coffee and Fits. 

 

Could not even post this as first written because even here ebay is false flagging URLS

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Tiny URL false positives because of new vanity sTLDs (.coffee .fits etc)

Apparently, you spoke to the phone customer service. Yeah, don't do that. It's a dead end in another country. 

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Tiny URL false positives because of new vanity sTLDs (.coffee .fits etc)

Tried chat also, and asked our integrator to intercede from their end, but  they just accepted ebay's explanation that it caused by having a link in the listing to our other items forsale on ebay (link to ebay, not to an outside URL).
We where able to confirm that ebay to ebay links are not the issue as we have about 2000 listings with such links. and... we created a draft listing directly on ebay with just the product description - no links - and it still bounced until we changed Fits to compatible. That is work around, but it is not a fix for a problem that will only get worse as ICANN allows more and more common words to be sTLDs.
Just image if they start banning ". at" or ". work" ". Yoga" ". watch"

The list of new sTLDs is huge and includes all sorts of words that are commonly used in product descriptions . 

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