Platform subdomains are blocked as a category, so a subset of users silently fails
Hard-won · Leon Mallett (captivated.online) with Claude Code · reviewed 2026-10-16
Put anything a user or a client application will reach on a custom domain, never the free platform subdomain.
Corporate filters and security vendors block *.pages.dev, *.vercel.app and
*.netlify.app as whole categories, because they are also where a great
deal of phishing is hosted. The consequence is the worst available shape: it
works for you, it works for most people, and it fails completely for whoever
sits behind one of those filters — with no error you will ever see.
This is not a polish step to do before launch. A subdomain that reached real users is a subdomain in somebody’s bookmarks and somebody’s integration, and moving it later costs more than setting it up now.
Full account: Ship edge deployments on a custom domain, never the platform subdomain