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What is happening with these domains?

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  1. boxfish United Kingdom

    boxfish Well-Known Member

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    Can anyone explain to me what is happening with these sites please?

    Recent sales on domainlore:

    cotswolds.org.uk
    rucksack.co.uk

    I understand that they are being redirected but for what purpose?

    No reason I want to know other that being nosey. The only time I have seen redirects like this is from super spammy sites.

    To buy a domain for £3.2k to do this seems a waste - is it profitable?

    Wouldn't it make sense to buy a domain like rclegends.co.uk for £60 (sold today) which has received 5000+ in traffic during it's time at auction to do this, rather than £3.2k for a domain that received a couple of hundred visits?
     
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    ChrisMM Active Member

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    Just a heads up - My Avast is freaking out when I try visit those 2 urls.
     
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    Both are Sedo landing pages.
     
  5. boxfish United Kingdom

    boxfish Well-Known Member

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    Really?

    For me it redirects through 7 or 8 sites landing on a different end page each time. Usually polls, quizzes or job sites/specific job listings
     
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    dee Well-Known Member Acorn Supporter

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    yep.... me too
     
  7. diablo

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    Same for me now, but earlier they both resolved to Sedo landing pages: rucksack.co.uk was listed at £20,000.

    Whois shows Sedo nameservers for both names.

    Not sure what's going on.
     
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    dee Well-Known Member Acorn Supporter

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    I'm probably hitting cached nameservers or something if they show as Sedo. I think i visited yesterday when first seeing this thread.
     
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    Hi all,

    I haven't checked them out myself but if they resolve to different sites, then I guess they might be placed in a url rotator which can redirect to different sites each time the page is refreshed. I saw this type of service a few years back.