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Gmail Not Recognizing New gTLD Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

TLDs, Gmail turns them into clickable links in the email when it was received, whether the sender made the domain name a clickable link or not. Then, I opened it and Gmail automatically made those domains (well only certain ones) clickable links. Domain Names' With the.com,net,org,biz,info, and.tv

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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 Registers 682 More Nonsense Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

nonsense domain names. I’ve been following these nonsense domain name purchases since they started purchasing them a while back. Here are a few of the domains on the latest purchase: agruimjfsklcyp.com. They’re not all the same length, and I am not sure what exactly these domains mean.

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Facebook Picks Up Content Fellowship Domains

Bill Hartzer

In the past day or so, Facebook has registered “Content Fellowship” related domain names, possibly indicating that they have a plan to offer a content fellowship. There are several domain names that they’ve registered that seemingly would protect a new possible project that they’re working on.

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Moving Your.COM to a.BRAND Domain? Google Says…

Bill Hartzer

Brands that have purchased their own.BRAND TLD (Top Level Domain) shouldn’t worry about moving their websites. I recently asked Gary Illyes, the Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, about the effect on search when you move your website from a.COM domain name to a domain on your own.BRAND TLD.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Here’s a sample article directory that would fall into this category: [link]. But really, the question is this: how is a website supposed to contact the REAL site owner of this website, since it is sitting on a domain name that Google owns? That’s the article directory, with 71,900 pages indexed in Google.

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Google Web Designer For HTML5 Sites That Work On Any Device

Bill Hartzer

Really, only 2 minutes, to download and test out Google Web Designer on a recently-acquired domain name, Streaming Video , where I wanted to put up a real basic web page. – No templates, themes, or samples are included. I have my reservations, though, when it comes to it’s SEO-friendliness. I took 2 minutes.

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