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Apple Deletes Over 500 Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Apple has deleted over 500 domain names this week, and decided not to renew these domain names. Most of these domain names were registered by Apple exactly one year ago, and after coming up for renewal they have not renewed them. Name Server(s) NSERVER.APPLE.COM (has 2,449 domains).

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How to Host Your Domain Name with Bing.com For Free

Bill Hartzer

Tired of having to pay for web hosting and don’t want to park your domain name with a domain name parking company ? Well, you can (temporarily) host your domain name with Bing.com for free. How to host your domain with Bing. Edit your name servers and change them to ns1.msft.net

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Domain Name Scam Alert: ICANN Does NOT Provide Domain Name Appraisals

Bill Hartzer

There is a pretty nasty domain name appraisal scam going around that you need to be aware of if you own domain names. The scammer’s only intent is to make money from a domain name appraisal service, which is fake. This is a scam, and domain name owners should not fall for this online scheme.

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Google To Make Not Provided Keywords Exclusively Available to.Google Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Starting on April 1, 2014, at UTC +6 (10:00am Central Standard Time, 8:00am Pacific), Google is opening up.Google gTLD to general availability. Domain names will be available at many registrars, including GoDaddy, Enom.com, Name.com, and 101Domain.com. starting at 10:00am Central Standard Time on April 1, 2014.

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Disney Registers Star Wars Master the Force Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

registered a few new domain names. I normally monitor the domain names that are registered by major companies on a regular basis. Disney doesn’t register a whole lot of domain names. But, they currently own 15,000 domain names total. Host IP address = 68.71.220.107 • Finding TCP protocol.

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Apple and Afilias Special Projects Register 1800 Nonsense Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Ever since I originally noticed that Apple was registering nonsense domain names, I have been intrigued about why they would be registering and then not renewing nonsense domain names. And it’s not just one or two domain names, or a dozen of them. info domain names would be at least $15,000.

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Apple Owns Mystery Domains, Hosted on Amazon Cloud Server

Bill Hartzer

owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now.

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