ICloud mail blocking emails containing certain URLs

I've discovered that iCloud email is blocking both incoming and outgoing emails containing certain URLs in the body of the email.
There is no indication to the sender that the email has been blocked.
In my case, I was organising an evening out at a pub in West London called The Oak.
The pub website is www.theoakw12.com and I put this in the body of the email, but nobody received the email.
If I remove the "." so it is no longer a full URL, the email is received.
It looks like Apple's email filtering is over-zealous... but I've been going round and round Apple's support pages but can't find anywhere to report this sort of issue except for these forums.

Just to add further info: I check the Cloud Mail from a PC at work.

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