Google Workspace blocks a legitimate domain because of a regex bug

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider

A developer trying to set up Google Workspace for his company hit a baffling error: "Enter a valid domain name instead of an email provider." After support failed to help, he debugged the sign-up page's JavaScript and found a local validation function that flags domains matching a regex list of email providers. The list includes overly broad patterns like `web\..*` and `me\..*`, which wrongly blocked his `web.` domain and the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy's `me.gov.ua`. Disabling the function in the browser allowed him to proceed, revealing it's only a frontend check.