Recruiterflow has two features that restrict candidates or contacts from specific companies, and they solve different problems. Using the wrong one for your situation can leave a gap, so it's worth knowing which does what.
Domain Blocklist
Keeps any email on a blocked domain off a candidate or contact profile. If someone adds a new record with a blocked-domain email, the profile is still created, but the email is stripped from it. If someone tries to add a blocked-domain email to an existing profile, the edit is rejected with an error. Either way, nobody on your team ends up with a saved email on that domain. See What Is the Domain Blocklist?
Off Limits
Lets a candidate or contact already exist in Recruiterflow, email and all, but restricts outreach to them, sending emails, adding to sequences, and similar communication. Off Limits also supports cool-off periods, so the restriction can expire automatically, and multiple named reasons like non-compete or strategic partnership.
Which one should you use?
Use Domain Blocklist when you don't want anyone's email from a domain saved to a record at all, for example a strict non-compete or a company you should have zero contact-detail visibility into.
Use Off Limits when candidates from a company are fine to have fully in your database, email included, for tracking or historical purposes, but your team shouldn't reach out to them, and especially when you need a cool-off period that lifts the restriction automatically.
Things to know
The two features are independent. Adding a domain to one doesn't automatically add it to the other.
A company can be under an Off Limits restriction and not on the Domain Blocklist, and vice versa, depending on which behavior you need.