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Regions Bank Fails to Renew Domain Name – Web Site Goes Down

Bill Hartzer

Regions Bank , an FDIC insured bank with 1,700 branches and 2,400 ATMs across a 16-state network in the South, Midwest, and Texas, failed to renew their domain name. As a result, their web site is down. One of your employees didn’t do their job–they didn’t renew the regions.com domain name.

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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 Activates Their First New gTLD Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Google has activated their first New gTLD domain name, which is nic.google. Well, after all, it could be a temporary redirect, with a plan on putting a live site on nic.google at some point? The post Google Activates Their First New gTLD Domain Name appeared first on Bill Hartzer. Domain Names'

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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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New gTLD Domain Name Forum Launched

Bill Hartzer

A New gTLD Domain Name forum has recently launched. The site, called gTLD.Link , is your everything link to the gTLDs. I’ve recently joined the forum, and so far have made several helpful connections through the site. But currently there is only one domain name forum dedicated to the new gTLDs, which is gTLD.Link.

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Insider’s Guide to Choosing the Best Domain Name for Your Site

Idaconcpts

Just go with “name of your business dot com” and you’re done. You’ve finished building the site and are ready to register the domain name, but there is already a website with that domain name. While you can update and redesign the site anytime you want, the domain name is often much more permanent.

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5 Great Tools For Finding A Domain Name

Jason Yormark

Of course it goes without saying that finding a good domain name is incredibly hard these days. Practically every.com you can think of is taken, but by using some incredibly useful tools and sites I’ve found over the years, with a little searching and patience, you’d be surprised at what you can find.