news.ycombinator.com• Sep 12, 2024• 1 min read
Tell HN: If you operate a .box domain, Stripe may decide to close your accountFor the past three years, we've operated a Stripe account without issue. We run a marketplace where we need to payout to multiple users internationally, so we opted to use Stripe Connect.More recently, we decided to re-brand and re-focus our development efforts, so we decided on a new name, registered a .box domain, created a new company, and created a new Stripe account. The process was exactly the same as it was three years ago; we were approved and ready to start integrating Stripe.That is, until we received an email a few days later from Stripe that they could no longer support our business. The email declared that "we're currently in the early stages of offering support for NFT sales, and we're not in a position to support every business that signs up". The thing is, we aren't an NFT marketplace: we handle digital sales and physical merchandise for musicians using credit cards, so how did they determine that we were somehow associated with NFT sales?The .box TLD is operated by My.
