Long time DomainSponsor account manager moves to Domain Holdings.

A well known face (and mustache) in the domain industry is changing jobs.

Jim Grace has left Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, after over seven years. He will be joining Domain Holdings as Director of Monetization.

Grace will be responsible for growing the company’s Domain Power monetization platform.

Domain Holdings was founded by long time domainer Chad Folkening as well as John Ferber, co-founder of Advertising.com. A number of domain industry employees have landed in its stables over the past year.

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Marchex to no longer park domains for customers.

Marchex is officially shutting down its domain parking program for clients.

Wait. What’s that, you say? They have a parking platform?

Yes, but they’ve been in the process of scaling it back since at least 2008. In the first half of 2008 it grossed $5 million in revenues from its parking platform called SiteBox. It anticipated revenues of only $500,000 for the fourth quarter of 2008. I’m not aware of anyone who currently uses them.

The company sent a notice to clients today informing them that the domain parking program will shut down on May 1.

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Domain parking company resolves stats issues.

Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages.

Today the company announced that it has fully resolved the problems and compensated publishers. Customer parking daily statistics from for March 9th-19th have been updated. Customers have also been compensated for the three hours of downtime during the DDOS attack.

I’ve heard of parking companies being hit with DDOS attacks, but this one appears to have caused collateral damage with Sedo’s system. It’s good to hear everything is fixed and customers have been compensated.

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