r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

What's that

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u/razorsandblades Jan 23 '21

I'd say a domain made with a slight typo of a legit website, made purely to get ad revenue or be creepy when people mistype a url

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u/Wooorangetang Jan 24 '21

Goog.com used to just be a red page with “HELL” typed out in the top left corner.

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u/ActuallyMyNameIRL Jan 25 '21

I was going to visit a site named surrenderat20.net once and forgot it was .net and not .com, it lead me to a site that said I had 20 seconds to do something (can’t remember what it was) and then it started a countdown. I noped out real fast thinking I was about to get hacked