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		TheGeminon on Jan 24, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to m... 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?

HughParry on Jan 24, 2025 [–]

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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