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Medium.com sites everywhere with different domains?

2 points by APCarr ↗ HN
Question - why does there seem to be so many different websites, which all seem to be part of medium.com?

Time after time I'll click a link to some article, realize I'm on Medium... but it's a different domain? Yet it looks exactly the same, and I'm already logged in?

Is is some kind of spam marketing, or a look-alike platform, or...?

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vfc1
This is part of the medium business model, if you pay a monthly fee, you can run medium in your own subdomain, as a blogging hosting platform.

This way your readers won't get the whole content blocked with a message and asking for a $5 usd a month subscription.

The content is now getting blocked via a popup not only by following links via the medium newsletter, this is happening in organic search results from google directly.

[dead] Mr_Miner
I think this strategy of medium is not good for the people who are communicating via medium and for those who do not want to spend money for an article.Moreover the medium claims that the subscription fee is given as royalty to the original authors of the articles.Why don't they make it free to all?