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Apple Continues to Register Mystery Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

A few days ago, I uncovered the fact that Apple owns a bunch of mysterious domain names, most of which are resolving to a default Linux setup page on Amazon’s cloud. But today, after I reported that one of these mysterious domain names, trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz, was registered and then deleted, was just re-registered yesterday.

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Bill Hartzer Weekly Update: October 18, 2014

Bill Hartzer

There are plenty of sites now reporting that they are seeing increases in search engine rankings, some as high as 30 of 40 places from where their site was previously ranking. I also was shown an interesting price bug at GoDaddy, where they were offering a domain name for $5,000. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014. You could still.

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Bill Hartzer – Weekly Update for September 21, 2014

Bill Hartzer

Google Knowledge Graph and How to Get In–and a report on the results of my.Com vs. gTLD Domain Name tests. https://www.billhartzer.com/pages/google-showing-freebase-results-knowledge-graph-name/. And Finally, the Big Report is Out! https://www.billhartzer.com/pages/com-better-gtld-domain-name/.

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Bill Hartzer: Weekly Update for October 13, 2014

Bill Hartzer

I’d like to mention Jenny Halasz, who, at Pubcon, was very vocal about not being on “the list” https://www.billhartzer.com/pages/34-speakers-i-want-to-meet-at-pubcon-las-vegas-2014/. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014. In Case You Missed It: The Big Report is Out! SEO Fundamentals. You could still. personal blog'

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Facebook Acquired Messenger.com

Bill Hartzer

It appears that Facebook has recently acquired the Messenger.com domain name. Checking the name servers and the whois data for Messenger.com, there was a recent change to the name servers: from lovellsnames.org to facebook.com, and the registrant is now Facebook. Domain Names'

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ICANN Hacked

Bill Hartzer

ICANN , the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization that oversees internet domain names, has been hacked. In late November 2014 they were targeted with a spear phishing attack, and then this month they discovered that the compromised credentials were used to access other ICANN systems besides email.

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Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is Now Called Globe Life Park in Arlington

Bill Hartzer

Globe Life Stadium, GlobeLifeStadium.com, was registered on January 28, 2014, on Godaddy: Domain Name: GLOBELIFESTADIUM.COM. Registry Domain ID: 1844606830_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN. Update Date: 2014-01-28 17:58:59. Creation Date: 2014-01-28 17:32:26. Name Server: NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM. Name Server: NS77.DOMAINCONTROL.COM.