• It is the week of the ever growing Targeted TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas, so it appears that the industry is getting some of their news in a bundled fashion this week.
• LiveDoor, the company that had a lot of negative news due to possibly shade accounting practices issued an announcement from their Innovation Interactive subsidiary: They have release SiteParker, a domain parking system. It apparently is built based on the experience of serving advertising for their own 20,000 domains.
• Marchex purchased some assets of AreaConnect.com for $16 Million of cash and stock. While I am still not sure what exactly AreaConnect is (apparently it has 1 Million page views per month) it sounds to me like it would fit right into Marchex’ local strategy. The company also appears to have partner ships with yellow and white pages directories across the US and Canada, which could provide additional local content and targeted traffic for Marchex. (Press Release) While we are talking about Marchex, I should also mention that they did launch new page layouts recently (I like them) and actually announced them with a press release.
• WhyPark.com launched a new service that says that it’s not parking, but asks you to host your sites with them. You point your domain to their servers and set up the domains and corresponding keywords. A sample site is PCviruses.net. They charge almost $100 to get you going. I am not quite sure if this is a one-time fee, or an annual fee. Judging from the sample site the content originates from free article websites. Apparently they provide you with “hundreds” or “thousands” of pages of “fresh content“. There is a limit of 100 domains per account - they charge $99.95 in order for you to sign up for their service. You provide your own Adsense/YPN/AdBrite code. (Press Release)
• Bulkregister re-discovers their market niche and give it a name with this press release: Domainers. They have introduced “Magic Folders”, which allow you to sort your names in different folders and connect those folders with specific attributes, such as different nameservers, whois information or the like.
• Meanwhile Ben Edelman who told us how Spyware generates fake clicks shows us a possible use for his research in being the lawyer for a law suit against Yahoo!. (PDF of the suit)
• With all of these news we are all looking for a new forum to discuss all of this. And along comes DN Fish. Well, as long as it’s not DN Phishing, hehe. (By the way, dnphishing.com is still available.) Hardly any posts on there so far, though. (Press Release)
• Oh and yes, there are rumours about a cooperation between Yahoo! and MSN.

[via OnlineMediaDaily, ClickZ, SearchEngineWatch, Forbes, Peter Ejtel and others]