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Domain records show Apple connection to iGuide.com unlikely.
If you’re one of the many Apple bloggers out there, your holiday season has been filled with speculation about Apple’s upcoming tablet. The consensus is that will be called iSlate, since Apple has acquired the iSlate.com domain name.
But another possibility is iGuide. MacRumors points to an Apple trademark application for iGuide. Robin Wauters over at TechCrunch did some investigating and comes to a similar conclusion as MacRumors — if anything, iGuide would likely be some sort of related service, not the name of the actual device.
When I saw the rumors about iGuide, I immediately recalled that the domain name iGuide.com had sold recently. Digging through the Domain Name Wire archives, I found this story about iGuide.com selling for $100,000. The whois record at the time showed Beverly Hills based Baroda Ventures LLC as the buyer. (It’s now protected by whois privacy.) I don’t see any connection to Apple, and the current use of the domain name leads me to believe there is none. It forwards to OVGuide.com, another domain owned by a Beverly Hills company at the same address as Baroda Ventures.
If Apple bought the domain name through a shell company, it certainly wouldn’t be forwarding it to an online video guide site.
It’s possible Apple has a product or service planned with the name iGuide, but it doesn’t own iGuide.com.
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Better late than never, Apple gets iPodNano.com domain name.
It took about four years, but Apple has finally gotten its hands on the iPodNano.com domain name.
Apple filed for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name. The owner of the domain name, Fusion Media Ltd., did not respond to the complaint and the arbitrator found in Apple’s favor.
Fusion Media registered the domain name in September 5, 2005, two days before Apple officially introduced the iPod Nano. Some product manager at Apple must have been asleep at the wheel. Apple famously paid through the nose to get the iPhone.com domain name, a name it could have secured prior to launch for much less.
iPodNano.com is the second domain name Apple has won through arbitration this month. Earlier this month it won the domain name iTunes.com.mx, a country code domain name for Mexico.
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Better late than never, Apple gets iPodNano.com domain name.
It took about four years, but Apple has finally gotten its hands on the iPodNano.com domain name.
Apple filed for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name. The owner of the domain name, Fusion Media Ltd., did not respond to the complaint and the arbitrator found in Apple’s favor.
Fusion Media registered the domain name in September 5, 2005, two days before Apple officially introduced the iPod Nano. Some product manager at Apple must have been asleep at the wheel. Apple famously paid through the nose to get the iPhone.com domain name, a name it could have secured prior to launch for much less.
iPodNano.com is the second domain name Apple has won through arbitration this month. Earlier this month it won the domain name iTunes.com.mx, a country code domain name for Mexico.
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- Apple needs to get its domain name strategy together
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iPod and iTunes maker fights for Mexican country code domain name.
Apple, Inc. has launched a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name iTunes.com.mx. .Mx is Mexico’s country code, and .com.mx is the standard second level domain used in the country (although Mexico is now opening up .mx at the first level). The arbitration panel should render a decision on whether Apple gets the domain name within a couple months.
This isn’t Apple’s first foray into arbitration for iTunes-related domain names. In 2008, the company won iTunesLatino.com and iTunesDownload.com through arbitration at National Arbitration Forum. iTunesLatino.com now forwards to a Spanish-language version of iTunes.com. The registrar that controlled iTunesDownload.com never transferred the domain to Apple. (That registrar, Lead Networks of India, is currently fighting with ICANN to keep its accreditation.)
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