Bill Hartzer

Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

Sedo to Hold Around the World in Seven Days Online Domain Name Auction

      Sedo, a leading online domain name marketplace, is holding an Around the World in Seven Days online domain name auction, which features travel-related domain names. Some of the featured domains to be sold include Arabia.com, Breaks.com, Glasgow.com and Tourism.co.uk. The "Around the World in Seven Days" Sedo auction ...

Sedo Report on Growth of Secondary Internet Domain Name Market in 2007

According to SEDO, internet domain name sales in the secondary market totaled GBP37 Million. Sedo, the leading online market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has launched its annual report on the growth of the secondary Internet domain name market in 2007. The report, which has ...

Moniker Domain Name Auction to be Held at iDate 2008 in Miami

  Moniker will host a social networking and dating domain name auction at the iDate 2008 conference. iDate is the premiere gathering of executives from the online dating and social networking business. Both live and online auctions will be held at the iDate 2008 conference being held in Miami, Florida. ...

Network Solutions Registering Domains After Availability Lookup

A friend tipped me off to a Domain State thread that warns you not to look up a domain name at Network Solutions. If you go to the Networks Solutions site and look up a domain name to see if it's registered then Network Solutions, within seconds, will buy the ...

Study Takes Aim at Mistyped Domain Names and Typosquatters

A new study by a major internet security company is taking aim at typosquatting, the practice of buying a misspelled domain name in the hopes that someone will mistype the name and land on that site. If someone then clicks on an text ad on the site the domain owner ...

NameMedia Files for IPO

NameMedia, a company that acquires, develops, and trades digital real estate, has filed with regulators in the United States today to raise up to $172.5 million dollars in an IPO. One of the NameMedia web properties includes BuyDomains.com, a services that offers premium domain name sales, and exclusive offers for website ...

Dallas Cowboys Return Cowboys.com Domain Name

  Last week I spoke about SEO, Search, and Domain Names at the TRAFFIC domain name conference, held in Hollywood, Florida. The highlight of the conference was the live internet domain name auction on Friday, October 12th, at 2pm, hosted by Moniker. One of the domain names that was ...

Meet the Lawyers IP Discussion at the TRAFFIC Domain Conference 2007

Do domainers know where to draw the line? "There is no question that the TM laws and how they are applied online are NOT consistent with the decision making for offline enterprise. Someday there will be hundreds of reversals as domains taken wrongly from domainers that were not actually violating ...

Meeting of the Chiefs – Report from the TRAFFIC Domain Name Conference

CEOs and Presidents from the top companies in the domain and traffic space discuss the state of our industry. Also covered will be the future direction of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. shows, plus why the industry is increasingly important to Wall St. while getting the cold shoulder from Madison Ave, and how that ...

Bill Hartzer is the head search engine marketing, social media, and website marketing expert at Vizion Interactive, a Dallas marketing firm that offers search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, and other interactive marketing services. . Do you need online marketing services? Let's talk!
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Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...
May 2nd 2008
Tags: Search Engines 7 Comments

OBG Management and Convera Launch OBGfindit ObGyn Search Engine

OBG Management has teamed up with Convera(R) to create OBG FindIt, a vertical search engine for the ObGYN specialty. OBG Management is a leader in obstetrics and gynecological patient care and practice management communications. Convera Corporation is a leading provider of vertical search for trade publishers. OBG FindIt provides search results ...

Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center

Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search ...
April 15th 2008
Tags: Internet Usage 9 Comments

comScore Releases March 2008 United States Search Engine Rankings

As a follow-up to yesterday's comScore post, I thought I would update you on the United States' search engine rankings. comScore has released the search engine data for March 2008. This is part of their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search engine marketplace in the United States. During March 2008 ...
April 14th 2008
Tags: Internet Usage 4 Comments

ComScore Releases Web Rankings for March 2008, Yellow Book and MLB Top Gainers

comScore has released their monthly internet rankings for March 2008. Among the notable changes this past month is the increased traffic to the Yellow Book Network as well as more traffic to MLB.com. The typical NCAA "March Madness" drove a lot of traffic to online gambling sites. According to comScore, the ...

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