Ask HN: is my domain blocked

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someone recently tried to submit something from my domain to HN and it appears blank in the submission form: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1691132

Anyone have any idea what is going on?

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Yes, your domain is blacklisted. All stories with links to it will be [dead] on arrival.

do you know how to get un-blacklisted or what happened on my domain to mark it as such?

A moderator (PG and some YC alumni) probably saw this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010590 then deleted it and blacklisted your domain for blogspam.

Yikes. It definitely appears that way at first glance, but this is my own blog (I suffer from having a name domain vs. my own name) The issue is that this topic came up with a bunch of people who frequent hacker news and they told me it was a valid topic and encouraged me to write it up. It ended up generating good commentary both on my own site and on HN. Its a subjective call, and hopefully one that can be rectified once the situation is fully understood.

I emailed PG but have not yet heard back.

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