Ya, but renaming their service was likely why it cost them $4.5 million. I mean imagine how much of a hit it would be to have to rename your business.
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Ya, but renaming their service was likely why it cost them $4.5 million. I mean imagine how much of a hit it would be to have to rename your business.
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Just the domain (unless I'm missing something).
On a side note, I decided to go to icloud.com... finally found a way to get documents onto iWork for iPad for free and sync them with other devices! (Dropdav did this as well, but it's no longer free)
It's the Network Solutions Call Center. I used to work there when it opened. Back when it was owned by VeriSign and we weren't forced to sell you 8 things before you got off a call.
Apple should of bought cloudme.com too.
I hate the name but its a bit like iCloud + MobileMe= CloudMe.
I hate the name but its a bit like iCloud + MobileMe= CloudMe.
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I think $4.5 million is equivalent to a rounding error - in it's bank account.
I think $4.5 million is equivalent to a rounding error - in it's bank account.
HOLY ****!! i need to start registering domain names with "i"s in front of them guessing future apple products
iTrackyou.com would be a good place to start.
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Ditto - something has to be up...
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Ditto - something has to be up...
No, he sold the company. The highest selling "domain only" is currently sex.com at 13 million, which the article states.
Since this "iCloud" is rumored to allow users to store their music in the cloud and give access to your songs using your mobile device's internet connection, can we expect a web based iTunes? I can see this being extremely useful to listen to music on my work computer where I do not store my music on.
As a longtime Mobile Me user (I've been using the service since the free "iTools" days), I'm a bit concerned that this new iCloud service will have features (the music locker, for instance) that are only available to residents of the United States. I hope that's not the case, but the way the music and motion picture industries work, it wouldn't surprise me.
Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple has lined up worldwide rights.
Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple has lined up worldwide rights.
Changing the DNS (which they haven't done yet) can take days to propagate. It's not like you can do it at the last second and expect people to be able to hit the site.
And they can't change the DNS without having ownership of the domain (which they do now).
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I would pay $99 a year to have cloud backups and streaming movies, music and documents. Here's hoping I'm right.
(free would be better but that would quickly devalue box.com and all the others like box.)
I would pay $99 a year to have cloud backups and streaming movies, music and documents. Here's hoping I'm right.
(free would be better but that would quickly devalue box.com and all the others like box.)
Don't you just love Bay Area real estate?
There was a wonderful ad in the Mercury News a few years ago.