For many domainers, the launch of ParkingPanel.com in the fall of ‘06 was a welcome addition to the PPC space. The Oklahoma-based company saw a quick growth spurt with some large domain portfolio owners switching over to their system. Then in February ‘08 the plug was pulled on the Google feed syndication through Ask.com. [...]

Ask.com has acquired several major reference websites including Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its purchase of the Lexico Publishing Group LLC. This news comes 10 months after Answers.com agreed to buy the same company for $100 million in a deal that fell through. The terms of the acquisition have yet to be disclosed. [via TheDomains.com] Share

After Skenzo first notified some of their customers earlier this week that they would be moving some of their domains to a second tier feed, Skenzo has now announced that they are switching to a Yahoo! feed. Read the full email after the break. Share

According to an article by DomainNameWire, Ask.com is to stop syndicating the google advertising feed to parking providers. Domain Name Wire has learned through multiple sources that Ask.com’s Google feed will no longer be syndicated to parking companies as of March 1. A number of parking companies use this feed to augment other search results. I [...]