Is it "cheating" to whitelist a domain for a phishing simulation?

Basically, i'm using gophish to run a phishing simulation at work.
I spent 10$ on a domain that's identical to ours except that it uses .net instead of .org. (i used amazon Route 53 and ses)

the problem I'm running into is that my about half of the emails from my new domain are being flagged by google's servers as spam, and i can't think of anyway around this other than to whitelist it from the admin console. And i …

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