There are many spoken parallels between Real Estate and Domaining. Real Estate "Red Lining" and Domain "Traffic Redirects" is an unspoken parallel.
Domain traffic 'Geofencing', for example, can show or hide versions of the same page to various 'targets' in any global 'Geofenced' area.
To get an idea of how pervasive and pernicious illicit domain trafficking is consider the (documented) big picture.
Redirected domain traffic theft began with the first domain name traffic generators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
ISPs claimed they only redirect traffic when a non-existent URL is entered.
A few years ago the
U.S. FTC looked into how ISPs handle consumer traffic and concluded:
"The report identified several troubling data collection practices among several of the ISPs, including that they combine data across product lines; combine personal, app usage, and web browsing data to target ads; place consumers into sensitive categories such as by race and sexual orientation; and share real-time location data with third-parties.
At the same time, the report found the privacy protections many of the companies offer raised several concerns. Even though several of the ISPs promise not to sell consumers personal data, they allow it to be used, transferred, and monetized by others and hide disclosures about such practices in fine print of their privacy policies.
For example, several news outlets noted that subscribers’ real-time location data shared with third-party customers was being accessed by car salesmen, property managers, bail bondsmen, bounty hunters, and others without reasonable protections or consumers’ knowledge and consent, according to the report."
