Bill Hartzer

MARCH 21, 2015

is suing Domain Name Proxy Service, Inc. The Domain Name Proxy Service, Inc. Well, if you are in this situation, and you need to protect your trademark(s), especially if a rogue website is using your trademark on their website, first I would go ahead and look up the whois data for the domain name.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 7, 2015

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Google announced that they are beginning to remove the domain name from the mobile search results. Rather than displaying a URL in the search results or a domain name, Google has begun to display a website name or a website name and a breadcrumb of the website’s page.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

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' Gandy Blvd.,

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 8, 2014

Did Microsoft just register a domain name that is a typo (a typo domain) of Verizon? I know this might be a stretch, but I am really curious about one of the domain names that was just registered, and was set up on Microsoft’s name servers: vericen.com. Registry Domain ID: 1853664725_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

It’s a shame that these scams exist after all these years, as they have morphed from a search engine submission to even a domain name registration scam. This important notification notifies you about the expiration notice of your domain registration for XXXXXXX.com search engine submission. Registrar URL:[link].

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 2, 2014

If you don’t, then you may want to read my post about a test that was done regarding domain names with hyphens. That certainly opened up my eyes, and now I prefer domains without hyphens in them. Just recently, Microsoft registered these two domain names. Registrar URL: [link]. Name Server: ns1.msft.net.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

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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