IOS blocking incoming SMS containing specific URL's

Does anyone know if a SMS can get blocked if it contains a specific URL? We sent a link to customers in an SMS so they can track an order. Now all iPhones have started to block these messages that contain our URL to track it. other devices receive the SMS with the URL OK, so it looks like Apple is blocking it.
They are only blocking our domain used for tracking, and not our other domains e.g company homepage.
Is there anywhere we can request it to be unblocked?
We tested on 6 different iPhones:
IOS 7.xx
IOS 8.02
IOS 8.13

Started carrer with afaria 7. I used to wonder as to why this feature not their in afaria while it works superb in case of Airwatch. You provided a workaround... Nice to see this.
Nice work Abdelaziz!!!
Hope this comes as a default feature of afaria

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