With the severe downturn in the general economy this might not seem like the best time to open a new business but that hasn't stopped a trio of veteran domainers we know from starting up three new companies this month. Founder/CEO David Harry of Australia's Xtra Parking 

Pty Ltd. has just opened the doors at KeyRPM.com, a service that is partnering with parking companies to provide a seamless keyword optimization platform that KeyRPM says can boost revenue from your current parked domains.  No name server changes are required ad you can choose which domains you want them to optimize. The company ran an invitation only beta test for several months and is now open to the public.

Scott Alliy at Allied Internet Solutions (parent company of eComInvestments and DomainsAvailableNow.com) has started a website announcement and promotion service that Alliy said is "designed to help newly developed sites get valuable exposure, links necessary to increase traffic and awareness of their web business." The unique element of the program is that it doubles as an affiliate program (for those who wish to use that feature) with an instant 40% payout with each completed transaction.

Even though the final shape of ICANN's controversial plan to roll out an unlimited number of new gTLDs is still very much up in the air, a number of companies are making plans to pursue specific extensions. The latest is San Francisco's BRS Media who announced today that they intend to go after a new .radio extension. BRS has a lot of experience in this category having launched the  repurposed .FM and .AM ccTLDs as multimedia platforms in 1998. For the .radio initiative, the company will be working with Minds + Machines as their consulting and registry back end provider.