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Somebody has bought several domains like getexample.com, buyexample.io, joinexample.net, and is 301 redirecting them to example.com.
What's their play here? Is this setup for a phishing attack in the future? Are they just going to try and sell the domains to me in the future? Not encountered behaviour like this before (or at least, I don't know if this is the beginning phase of a common scam)
This is less true than it used to be, but people still do it.
People do this for SEO purposes. They think that this increases the amount of backlinks to their site, thus increasing their rank in Google and other search engines. This is less true than it used to be, but people still do it.
The fraudulent domains are only sending traffic to OP.
My guess is that they want to either phish visitors, or they want to ask OP for affiliate revenue, like a digital version of the guys who wash your windshield or your shoes without asking first, and then ask for money.
Or planning to threaten to divert organic traffic through the impersonation domains away from the canonical domain, if you don't pay them.
People do this for SEO purposes. They think that this increases the amount of backlinks to their site, thus increasing their rank in Google and other search engines. This is less true than it used to be, but people still do it.
And they're not obvious mouse slips like redirecting googl.com -> google.com - they're more of the form mydomain.com.
I was mostly interested in what the actual play from them here is tbh
Do you have an affiliate plan, or likely to have one? Maybe they plan to redirect with their affiliate ID at some point?
We're a small bot security/captcha company and pretty regularly get various attacks thrown at us - figuring out if somebody is up to something more along those lines was my main concern.