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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. 302·Found Location:·[link] Cache-Control:·private Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Type-Options:·nosniff Date:·Mon,·24·Nov·2014·19:16:13·GMT Server:·sffe Content-Length:·228 X-XSS-Protection:·1;·mode=block Alternate-Protocol:·80:quic,p=0.02

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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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Domain SEO Service Registration Corp. Domain Registration Scam

Bill Hartzer

Unfortunately, there are still people out there, like Domain SEO Service Registration Corp., 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. Domain SEO Service Registration Corp. 5379 Lyons Rd.

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Bill Hartzer Weekly Update – December 7, 2014

Bill Hartzer

Domain Name SEO Search Engine Registration scam, Google SERPs Instagram Date Mistake, 7Search Accused of Traffic Stealing. Domain SEO Service Registration Scam. Recently I’ve received a few notices from a Chinese company saying that my domain name won’t have as much visibility unless I pay them $64.

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Bill Hartzer Weekly Update: October 18, 2014

Bill Hartzer

I also was shown an interesting price bug at GoDaddy, where they were offering a domain name for $5,000. But, the SEO industry insiders are reporting that Google Penguin 3.0 There appears to be a bug in how GoDaddy is displaying the prices of some New gTLD domain names. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014.

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Bill Hartzer: Weekly Update for October 13, 2014

Bill Hartzer

TopSEOs, a website that “lists” the top SEOs in the industry, appears to have been banned in Google. 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.

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Merry Christmas! A Final 2014 Weekly Update from Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer

Google’s CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA won’t stop spam bots, Best Buy Oops, ICANN hacked, Freebase is shutting down, and Apple’s mysterious domain names. This will be my last weekly update in 2014, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And it’s not just one or two domain names, or a dozen of them.