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Apple Buys iCloud.com Domain For $4.5 Million
An anonymous reader writes "A report on late Wednesday night relayed that Apple recently purchased the iCloud.com domain from Xcerion for a cool $4.5 million. Indeed, iCloud.com now re-directs to CloudMe.com. With such a hefty price tag, Apple clearly must have serious plans for the cloud in the pipeline..."
Prepare the lawsuits to demand the registration be handed over.
Did you read the full summary? Apple already bought the name, it's a bit late in the day to make that demand.
Trolling is a art,
I'd guess a web based version of iTunes, with full backup at a minimum.
Gigaom says "Apple May Have Snapped Up iCloud.com" because "My source [...] says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million. Xcerion hasn’t responded to my queries as yet. At the time of writing, the Whois database showed Xcerion as the owner of iCloud.".
EdibleApple says "Apple reportedly buys iCloud.com domain for $4.5 million" because "Gigaom is reporting that Apple recently purchased the iCloud.com domain from Xcerion for a cool $4.5 million.".
Which on Slashdot becomes "Apple Buys iCloud.com Domain For $4.5 Million" saying "A report on late Wednesday night relayed that Apple recently purchased the iCloud.com domain from Xcerion for a cool $4.5 million.".
When enough people speculate on the same thing, it apparently makes it undeniably so.
Now they have somewhere to upload all that iPhone tracking data.
Or maybe they're just idiots.
That's, "iDiots".
/. feels a bit like OS X Daily today.
I'm a big Apple fan and love almost all things Apple but speculative Apple stories like this are ridiculous for a "news" site. I know it's about "engaging the community" and ad impressions and all that but it seems better to just cover the news when it happens rather than the speculations before it happens. Then we end up with an intelligent conversation about what X means rather than wild conjectures about what the future might hold for our favorite/least favorite tech company. /end karma bleeding rant
If they bought this domain and did not use it in the hope that apple (or someone else) would want it and be willing to pay them for it. That is domain squatting. Domain squatting has nothing at all to do with trademark infringement.