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A comment on Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me? by TheGeminon on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:50AM (#42812985)
Maybe they’ll try to build up traffic to your site from those domains and then push to sell them to you/extort by removing the redirects?
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Re:Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me? by HughParry on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:57AM (#42813055)
Just feels like such an odd play lol. If they could organically generate leads/traffic that I'd be willing to get extorted over, then surely they would also have the means to start a marketing agency that I'd be willing to pay far more for?
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