Groupon Goods launch foreshadowed by domain registration.
In August I wrote about Groupon’s registration of GrouponGoods.com. At the time I asked if it was for a merchandise site or charity.
Today I got my first Groupon Goods email. According to the company:
Groupon Goods features really good deals on great products. To get airspace on Groupon Goods, a product has to be cool enough to share and innovative enough to inspire. It also must be made of reliably bonded molecules and stardust.
Honestly, if we think a product is remarkable and we can offer a good deal on it, we’ll do so.
Groupon Goods will compete with flash sale sites such as Woot and potentially Amazon’s MyHabit.
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Company acquires Listen.in domain name.
Google has made a curious domain acquisition — Listen.in.
Technically it’s an Indian country code domain name, so perhaps we should just ignore the obvious phrase “Listen In”.
But it’s more fun if you don’t ignore it.
What’s Google up to? The company does have a product called Google Listen that’s in Google Labs. Oh, and there were those apparent plans to “listen in” to your computing environment.
Of course there’s the new Google music service as well, and this would be a nifty name for it when it rolls out generally.
Still, I find it hard to believe the company would bank a new product on a local ccTLD like .in. The company hasn’t been big on buying generic or even “cute” domains like this in the past.
Listen.in used to be a social music service based in Canada.
What do you think?
[Update: see comments, Ross says the got this domain when they acquired PushLife. It was still in an individual's name until it just changed hands.]
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