Amazon acquires meeting-productivity startup Do to expand Chime (opens in new tab)

(techcrunch.com)

55 pointsttam9y ago16 comments

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skolos9y ago· 4 in thread

I'm curious how much of this startup value is just in domain name.

yojo9y ago

They might not own it...

Salesforce had the domain in 2013, and was an investor in Do.com. The domain may have been on loan/lease.

I previously worked at a startup that was using a domain on a "rent to own" basis. I suspect something similar here.

simplehuman9y ago

Interesting! Do you have any info how terms of these leases look like?

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chinathrow9y ago

Well technically, we all rent the domains from our registrars.

I avoid however, to rent from a 3rd party who is the domain owner within the registry.

pacaro9y ago

As with all things, it depends on what someone is prepared to pay.

It seems unlikely that Amazon is overly concerned about the domain name

(Disclosure: I work at Amazon on the totally unrelated product "Go")

taco_emoji9y ago· 3 in thread

That headline is incredibly hard to parse.

ganfortran9y ago

Well the founders are kinda of stupid to choose 'Do' as their company name, showing zero awareness of SEO. Maybe it is not far in the future, until The startup emerges...!

nerdponx9y ago

There's something to be said for the dot-com-era fad of actually having "dot com" in your company name.

jawilson29y ago

Yeah, let me go Google "Do"...

benedictlewis9y ago

From their shutdown blog post [0], it looks like they gave users just 9 days warning before they deleted all user data. Also, the login link (still present in the header) takes you to a page they seem to have forgotten to add content to [1].

[0] http://blog.do.com/post/157299307009/announcing-our-next-cha...

[1] https://www.do.com/login

brilliantcode9y ago

I wonder how much they got acquired for. It seems to have been in an early stage? 2-10 employees from the screenshot in the article.

cammio9y ago

google g suite competition? next add file collaboration or buy dropbox. mailbox chat ...

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