Google thinks my Bitwarden domain is dangerous

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I followed the instructions on Bitwarden’s website and deployed Bitwarden in a docker container on a Linux host.
I set up an account on Duck DNS in order to have the domain point back to Bitwarden from outside.

At the very end of the process I got a message: “Bitwarden is up and running!” and I ran the command “sudo docker ps” and everything is showing as “healthy.”

Internally when I browse to my “vault” Google gives me a warning that I’m going to a dangerous site and if I “visit the unsafe site” it says “The site can’t be reached.”

If I try to browse to this outside my network it says “The site can’t be reached.” from the start.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

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Hey there, do you use the word Bitwarden in the top level domain? This often gets flagged by users who think it may be malicious.

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I’ve just now spooled Bitwarden up using the instructions at https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

When I try this step: “Congratulations! Bitwarden is now up and running at https://your.domain.com . Visit the web vault in your web browser to confirm that it’s working.” is where I get the malicious site warning.

I’m replacing the URL in the instructions with the URL for my vault.

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I think what dwbit was saying was that if any of the words in your vault URL https://your.domain.com contain the word “bitwarden”, then it is common for the domain to end up on a blacklist (because it makes it look like it could be a phishing site).

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