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Chupa Chupa

macrumors G5
Jul 16, 2002
14,835
7,396
If it doesn't belong to Apple now their attys will be in touch with the owner shortly with a lovely letter "asking" if they may take over the domain at no extra charge.
 

iMattcotv

macrumors 6502
Jun 22, 2010
289
0
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

MacRumors to get big enhancements due to mysterious $30,000 donation?

www.iPad2.com most likely to stop redirecting hence forth.
 

kuebby

macrumors 68000
Jan 18, 2007
1,582
13
MD
Seems sketchy. Appears to be owned by some company in Panama. And it's strangely just a mirror of MacRumors, all the links take you ipad2.com as well.
 

gibbz

macrumors 68030
May 31, 2007
2,701
100
Norman, OK
Here is the source

Looks like a way to serve up MacRumors and collect their own ad money.

Code:
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>ipad2.com</TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <frameset rows="50%,85" border="0" framespacing="0">
      <frame name="destframe" src="https://www.macrumors.com/" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
      <frame name="bottom" src="http://fb.domainit.com/" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO" frameborder="0" noresize>
   </frameset>
   <noframes></noframes>
</HTML>
 

geneamdahl

macrumors newbie
Apr 21, 2011
4
0
ipad2.com and org

Was just curious who owned this domain....

Only one way to find out:
www.ipad2.com

ipad2.com was registered long time ago before any IPAD appeared on the market at all from Apple or thereof that name! I see no reason why a someone wants to steal a registered domain as such. If Apple is eager to get this name Jobs will for sure fork out some $'s? there is also ipad.com they could claim which existed as well long time ago!?
 

arn

macrumors god
Staff member
Apr 9, 2001
16,362
5,795
nope. whoever owns it is just forwarding it to us.

arn
 

geneamdahl

macrumors newbie
Apr 21, 2011
4
0
ipad2.com and org

Good for you guys though! Free publicity!

Listen folks - do not worry about this domain name at all. It was registered long time ago before APPLE announced its product. that means in 2009!!
We know the real owner of it and they are somewhere in Europe. So - APPLE nor macrumors has anything to do with it. ipad.com belongs or belonged to a cancer foundation as far as we know already in 2009 or even before.
 
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