• Domaining Session at SEO Rountable [SEORoundtable]
• Marchex, Master of it’s domain [TheMotleyFool/MSNBC]
• Marchex quarterly filings for Q2/2006 [Marchex]
• Traffic Testing/Domain Kiting threat in the UK namespace [PCpro/Nominet]
• Great Ad-Tech Presentation: Domain Power – The Value, Tools and Trade of Domain Names [Dan Warner/Ari Lee Bayme]

According to this blog post on Bob Parsons’ blog, GoDaddy has decided not to go public at this point in time.

[via BizJournals.com]

Sedo is celebrating their 5 year anniversary by offering a $5 off promotion on their 5 core products for the next five weeks. Find out more. Sedo stands for “search engine for domain offers” and is offering domain brokerage, appraisals, escrow as well as parking services

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]

iREIT announces it has completed 34 portfolio acquisitions, accounting for more than $11.5 million in new domain acquisitions, including such premium domains as CreditReports.com, FarmLoans.com, EBuy.com, Tablets.com and CreditTips.com. These premium properties are among the more than 40,000 new domains purchased by iREIT over the past quarter.

Also DN Journal features a background article on IREIT today.

[Press Release]

Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP) announced that it has launched updated implementations of its more than 75,000 ZIP Code Web sites. Marchex also today announced that it has launched MyZIP.com (www.myzip.com) as a destination Web site that covers city and ZIP Code locations across the United States. MyZIP.com will also serve as the umbrella brand and gateway into Marchex’s ZIP Code Web sites and the associated city and local content.

The content that was integrated is from their OpenList platform, which they purchased earlier this year. Interesting also is that they are integrating Yahoo! Maps and weather information on the landers. Example site: www.98105.com

Marchex’s ZIP Code Web sites provide local search, locally targeted advertising inventory, and geographically relevant content covering 97% of all ZIP Code areas nationwide. Marchex owns .com and/or .net ZIP Codes in approximately 41,500 of the approximately 42,500 U.S. ZIP Codes (source: U.S. Postal Service). With the launch of MyZIP.com, Marchex is able to deliver local information related to all U.S. ZIP Codes and most U.S. cities.

[Press Release]

On top of their wellknown private auctions SnapNames is now also offering domains in public auctions starting at $9. You can see the domains being offered here or download the list here.

The operator for the .CM TLD (Cameron) has apparently activated WildCard DNS for all of their non-registered names and is displaying PPC advertising. What makes this different from
other ccTLDs that have done this in the past? Well, .CM is a typo of .COM.

[Update]: Judging from the IP address that the domains resolve to, it appears that this service is supplied by Hitfarm/NameView/GDEi.com.

[via ThreadWatch.org]

• HipMojo: Domain Parking: The Domain Name Ecosystem
• E-Commerce News: Developers Fret Over Domain Name Drought 
• CNN Money: A domain by any other name is not the same

Following the footsteps of Marchex (purchase of OpenList), Internet REIT (partnership with Associated Content) and Demand Media (purchase of eHow), NameMedia announced that they aquired Morefocus Group Inc. Morefocus operates “more than 350 vertically targeted sites“, owns proprietary content on “more than 5,000 topics” and has a “database of more than 10 million consumers” according to the press release.

“This acquisition gives NameMedia a rich repository of content that we can deploy across our network of highly targeted online properties,” said Kelly Conlin, CEO of NameMedia. “In addition, Morefocus has pioneered permission-based psychographic tracking and dynamic contextual promotion, forging a connection between high-value content and relevant marketing messages that will fit perfectly with our strategy of delivering highly-qualified leads to marketers.”

The terms of the deal were not disclosed and Morefocus will remain in its San Diego headquarters.

[Press Release]