Apple Files Request to Obtain iPad3.com Domain

[rearviewmirror]

Perhaps they don't consider the 3rd gen iPad that was released to be the iPad 3?

iPad 2S?

 

[inscrewtable]

I'd like to see Sir Paul, register the .apple TLD, that would be fun.

 

[ramuman]

The next iPad will be called the Newer iPad.

I'll wait for the newest iPad.

 

[gnasher729]

I'd like to see Sir Paul, register the .apple TLD, that would be fun.

Apple, Inc. (the computer company) has bought all the Apple related trademarks from Apple Corps (the record company). There are probably some other companies called "Apple" or with "Apple" in their name (I know of one), but Apple Corps could not register that TLD, and Paul McCartney as a private person couldn't either.

 

[Mac Kiwi]

Call it iPad 3S and watch the gnashing of teeth from the squatters.

 

[kiljoy616]

Question: Do you feel the same way about real estate investors and sales people?

Im sure most people here do, it is after all a fangirl site

 

[iDuel]

It's kinda surprising considering that they don't even have iPad.com. Then again, by looking up the WHOIS data, it looks like it was registered in 1997.

 

[josh0875]

"The New iPad" Really???

The next iPad will be called the Newer iPad.

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and then... Newest iPad.... Latest iPad.... Brand New iPad... NewGen iPad... Another iPad.... Yet Another iPad... Different iPad... Great iPad... Greater iPad... Greatest iPad...

After Steve Apple people have really lost their mind. God Bless Apple.

 

[SkyBell]

Perhaps they don't consider the 3rd gen iPad that was released to be the iPad 3?

This seems at least slightly plausible. Maybe the next gen. iPad will be the iPad 3.

 

[george-brooks]

"ipad2.com" redirects to macrumors

 

[OperaBuff]

This year it's the new iPad.
2013 - the new, new iPad
2014 - the really new iPad with free jumper cables
2015 - the super duper new, new, new iPad
2016 - the newest and bestest iPad ever (pink only)

 

[Vizin]

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[Bubba Satori]

Good for Apple.

Squatters and spammers are the bane of the Internet.

What's an iPad3?

 

[Vizin]

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[Bubba Satori]

Not sure if you're serious, but trademark law protects "confusingly similar" names. If I made a tablet and called it the "iPaad" I'd be infringing on Apple's trademark. "iPad 3" clearly infringes.

Domain name trademark disputes (for most TLDs, including .com) are settled via the UDRP, which allows domains to be transferred if they infringe on trademarks.

So would that include, for instance, http://ipad3newsblog.com/?

Should the Empire crush them, too?

 

[Vizin]

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