Kanoodle announced today that they have purchased the registrar and traffic aggregator Moniker.com and are now operating their three business units under the new Seevast brand. Pulse 360, a new brand, is going to be offering a contextual advertising system.

From the press release:

[...] Kanoodle today announced that Seevast will be a parent company overseeing three distinct operating companies [...].

The company is also announcing the acquisition of Moniker.com, the industry leader in domain sales and asset management, which includes domain name registration and management, live domain auctions, escrow, appraisals and domain traffic monetization services.

The Kanoodle content-targeted sponsored links business will become a
self- standing operating company, to be branded Pulse 360. [...]

Moniker.com will continue to operate as an independent business unit and Monte Cahn, CEO and Eric Harrington, President, the company’s founders, will remain with the company in their current roles to drive future value and growth. Seevast will provide additional resources to further accelerate Moniker’s impressive growth while taking advantage of obvious synergies with other Seevast units. With more than 1.5 million domain names under management, Moniker’s clients include the NHL, Major League Baseball, Lionsgate Films, Marchex, Jupiter Media and Yahoo!. [...]

[Press Release]