Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge

Re:Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes wit... by qekbg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:16AM (#20644790)

If in 2019 you haven't bothered to buy the domain name for your restaurant you can't call this "cybersquatting", honestly.

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Re:Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes wit... by jmkni on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:23AM (#20644847)

They're setting up domain names similar to ones the restaurants already own (ie the restaurant owns .com, they buy .net and drive traffic to it)

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Re:Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes wit... by dpau on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:26AM (#20644881)

> Grubhub registered 23,000 internet domains, many of them resembling the names of restaurants

Emphasis added.

Further, in The New Food Economy article [1]:

> Grubhub purchased three different domains containing versions of Shivane’s restaurant’s name—in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

[1] https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousand...

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Re:Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes wit... by dagw on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:25AM (#20644868)

How many domains should I be expected to buy? Give me a restaurant and I could probably come up with 100 reasonable sounding domains the could potentially be that restaurant.

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Re:Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes wit... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:24AM (#20644862)

This is a bit victim blaming, no?

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