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It's something I see a lot of. Only thing you have to worry about is annoying you're competitor to the point where they drive your adspend through the roof and try various ways to catch you're traffic too. We just had a competitor do something similar. Google wont mind much though

Lisa It is a personal decision.  There is no right or wrong answer. Big companies - sometimes buy them and do not use them in any shape nor form, but keep from competitors. Smaller companies usually don't as it is a costs issue. My experience is most competitors do not understand their own digital channel let alone, snapping up similar names of competitors...

Yesterday I discovered another 200 live domains, some which are a replica of the main site, most which redirect with a 301. Should I take most of the domains offline - Google will surely think we're guilty of scraping the main website and creating spammy links to it?