Over the weekend I have read many opinions about the Oversee.net purchase of Moniker.com from Seavast, the company that bought Moniker.com over a year ago, on some boards and forums.

Some have even used the “M” word to describe the aftermath, a Monopoly. People seem concerned that the combined company will ultimately be bad for domain holders and the industry although good for Oversee and Moniker.

We look at this deal as the continuation of the consolidation of the industry.

It certainly is not, by any stretch, a monopoly.

Domainsponsor.com is like all other parking companies, just a reseller of another company’s products.

All Parking companies use the basic feed of either Overture or Google. Some parking companies have a very small portion of their traffic going to Ask.com or some private advertisers they have build in their own network, but the vast amount of money being generated by all parking companies, including domainsponsor.com, comes from either Yahoo or Google.

Parking companies just aggregate the traffic so they can get a higher payout, use their own technology to optimize domains differently and their own software and design to change the look of the landing page. Therefore the combination of Moniker.com Traffic Club, with DomainSponsor.com cannot by its nature be a monopoly.

There are many other parking companies in the world. No need to list them all but there are at many major companies you can choice to park your domains with.

Except in rare circumstances, no one is subject to any contractual obligations to stay with any parking company. You are free to move your domains to whomever you want and move them back the next day.

People subject to monopolies do not have that luxury.

As far as the auction side of the business goes, the combination of snapnames.com and moniker’s auctions will simply give a live remote bidding component to the live auctions conducted by Moniker sometime this year.

Up to now, people have been unable to bid in real time at the live auctions conducted by Moniker unless attend the event. Although Moniker.com has allowed absentee phone and proxy bidding, it’s far from the same as live remote bidding.

Our prediction for the Moniker auctions is that with live remote bidding through snapnames, you will see higher prices for the domains you sell at these auctions. Instead of just 500 People bidding at the live TRAFFIC conference, for example, you will have at least 1,000 people watching and eligible to bid remotely on the auction.

As a seller you have many other choices of places to sell you names at auction.

Sedo.com through its greatdomains.com acquisition holds many high end, domain auctions, in addition to their regular daily auctions.

Afternic.com, which was acquired by Namemedia.com also hold’s daily domain auctions.

Domaintools.com is planning on holding at least 2 domain auctions in 2008.

Godaddy.com through TDNAM.com holds daily auctions.

On the registrar front, there are more than 500 accreted domain registrars. No Monopoly there.

With NameMedia.com already on the path to go public, further consolidation of domain portfolios, auction platforms, registrars and a parking platform will be more common.

This is what you need to have an all inclusive company that can go public.

Look like what oversee.net is heading towards.