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There are multiple Groupon "clones" on the ground in Australia, a few doing some fairly big numbers. Groupon have acquired one of the biggest (if my sources are correct) in JumpOnIt.com.au.

Scoopons behaviour is pretty low IMHO. Registering not only the domain name groupon.com.au but also the company name and the trademark?

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No. It was LivingSocial who invested $5 million on JumpOnIt, which is one of the larger group buy site. LivingSocial themselves took funding from Amazon.

Scoopon (and the guys behind Scoopon and CatchOfTheDays.com.au) also registered other domain names such as Woot.com.au and DealExtreme.com.au. So I think it's a pretty trivial squatting case.

Yeah there has been a few of these types of sites popping up on TV ads. Was wondering where one of them, cudo got the massive funding they must need to be pushing all these TV ads and promotions on thing like the cricket, turns out it's a Microsoft/PBL company. That's going to be some fairly steep competition for groupon in Australia.

http://thenextweb.com/au/2010/09/10/microsoft-launches-group...