Most definitely nothing, as no sentient humans are probably involved in the process except possibly malicious people that report a site in bad faith.

If the domain is being given away for free, it will be used a lot for scams etc, so a lot of systems will just start blocking it immediately. When I got my first domain, I used one of the free TLDs and my university blocked it completely due to it being a scam. Not for any of the content on it, just the TLD being commonly used by scammers

That’s my question. I’ve launched many fresh websites that have not been marked as unsafe by Google. If they were habitually doing this, there would be far more reports of it.

I suspect there is something the author is not telling us.

From false alarm to something previous owner did. Remember domain is recycled.

The big scary red warning page should at least tell you it’s phishing or malware or something else. OP didn’t have a screenshot of that. You can easily go to a safe browsing test site yourself at testsafebrowsing.appspot.com and find that Google does divulge the category of the blacklisting.

OP says:

> no gore or violence or anything of that sort

That’s not even the right criteria. OP is confused about Google Safe Browsing vs Safe Search.