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They do? I didn't know that.

I only know them from their Dutch branch Thuisbezorgd, which seems fairly decent, and has contracts with connected restaurants. Quite recently they've been under attack for abusing their near-monopoly (they do have Deliveroo and Uber Eats as competitors, as well many independent restaurants; many connected restaurants also have their own site) by raising their margins, putting pressure on restaurants.

GrubHub sounds like the worst of the worst, so I was quite surprised to learn they were bought by Thuisbezorgd's parent.




I think this is an example: https://www.afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken-rotterdam.nl/

Its a place that's on thuisbezorgd but has no own website. Just this shady ridiculously long URL that is an exact copy of the thuisbezorgd page, with a thuisbezorgd banner on it.

If we do a whois on the URL, the registrar is TAKEAWAY.COM (so thuisbezorgd) who happens to have 90,237 more domains: https://whois.domaintools.com/afhaalrestaurantpikantochicken....


I only got anecdotal evidence. Sometimes i just google the name of a restaurant i want to order.

Most of the times the results are:

- ad: order X on thuisbezorgd

- google widget about X

- 1) squated domain with thuisbezorgd order page for X

- 2) real domain of restaurant X




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