A Career Built Inside the Domain Name Industry
Bill Hartzer is the founder of Hartzer Consulting and DNAccess, where he advises organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies on domain names, technical SEO, and internet infrastructure. Unlike consultants who specialize narrowly, his work spans the intersection of search engines, domain names, digital advertising, internet infrastructure, web analytics, and cybersecurity — a breadth that matters in litigation, where the facts of a domain dispute rarely stay inside one discipline.
He has conducted domain and TLD research since the 1990s, and in 2013 launched one of the first dedicated domain background-check services, Verified.Domains, work that evolved into the domain protection, recovery, and due-diligence services now offered through DNAccess.com. That background-check work required building repeatable methods for identifying domain and website owners and connected assets — the same methodology now applied to expert witness engagements.
From Consulting Work to Expert Testimony
Hartzer has been retained as an expert witness in numerous matters where domain names and websites were central to the dispute, preparing expert reports and rebuttals, and providing deposition and trial testimony. His engagements typically involve UDRP/URS proceedings, ACPA litigation, ownership and chain-of-custody disputes, and technical questions about DNS configuration, hosting, and website history.
For background on the role generally, see his primer on what a domain name expert witness does.
Hartzer Consulting & DNAccess
Alongside expert witness engagements, Hartzer continues active consulting work through Hartzer Consulting (technical SEO, website and domain migrations, and search engine marketing) and DNAccess.com (domain name protection, recovery, background checks, and consulting). That ongoing operational work — actually managing migrations, recovering stolen domains, and auditing DNS configurations for live clients — keeps the technical methodology used in expert reports current rather than academic.