Last November we told you about Marchex's decision to spin their massive domain portfolio off into a different company called Archeo. Marchex is a public company and the plan was for Archeo to go public on its own as well. On Thursday Marchex announced it has decided not to try taking Archeo public at this time after all. Instead Archeo will remain an independent division of Marchex. 

Marchex CEO and Chairman Russell Horowitz said, "Archeo has tremendous asset value and we will continue to consider various strategic options. In the meantime, this decision frees 

up valuable resources and allows us to direct Archeo's positive cash flow to both build Marchex's balance sheet and fund Archeo's growth initiatives."

As we told you earlier this month, Archeo recently launched the Archeo Domains Marketplace where businesses, brokers and individuals can make purchase offers on the more than 200,000 domains in the comany's vast portfolio (a collection built on Marchex's $164 million purchase of legendary investor Yun Ye's portfolio in 2005).

	Elsewhere, domain-name research and monitoring pioneer DomainTools announced the addition of two key members to their executive team Thursday. Bruce Roberts comes on board as Vice President of Technology and Jeff Day takes over as Vice President of Marketing and Product. The DomainTools announcement said, "Both Executives bring deep enterprise software experience in growth-company environments, and add critical leadership acumen as DomainTools invests heavily to meet increasing demand from clients in the Cyber Security and Brand Protection markets."
Roberts is a 20-year veteran in engineering and systems development, with a Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University. Before DomainTools, he was Chief Technology Officer at Rouxbe Global Food Group. Roberts has held lead architect and management roles at HP and Opsware and played a key role in developing the early sites for ESPN.com and NBA.com   Day was the founder and CEO for Enodo Software, a cloud-based big data analytics technology for Marketing Performance Management. Over the last 15 years he has lead marketing organizations and product management at companies such as Apptio, HP, PolyServe, Sun Microsystems and Intel. One other note today - one of the largest local domainer's groups in the U.S. - Southern California Domainers - has annonced their next meetup. The event will take place next Thursday evening, Sept. 26, 2013 at the Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana restaurant at 13455 Maxella Avenue in Marina Del Rey, California (the seaside city that is also home to ICANN). Organizer Jason Thompson said "We've had a number of formal gatherings in the past and it has been very educational. This time around I want to take the formal out of it and gather the group together to network among each other. Some of us are great networkers and some of us need a little help. September's meetup will be purely about sharing a few drinks, stories and really connecting with one another on a business and personal scale. We haven't had a meetup in a year, so this will be the perfect way for everyone to catch up."