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Apple Takes Control of iCloud.com

This is the reason that we have domain squatters. People who buy up domains for cheap and have no use for them. Then when you go to register something of interest to you, they want to sell you the $6.95 domain name for thousands (or millions) of dollars.
 
arn said:
Apple users MarkMonitor, and is basically just another registrar. The issue is if you want a domain that someone else owns, then you have to buy it from them.

Even worse, is trying to buy a domain from a company that is actively using it. Which was the case of iCloud.com.

arn
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MarkMonitor is not 'just another registrar'. They specialise in registration and management for huge organisations. Their clients include Apple, Google, Yahoo, News Corp (I.E Fox, etc), E!, Time Warner, Zurich, FedEx, Epson, Nokia...

I'd like to see you try and register a domain with them 😉

THX1139 said:
This is the reason that we have domain squatters. People who buy up domains for cheap and have no use for them. Then when you go to register something of interest to you, they want to sell you the $6.95 domain name for thousands (or millions) of dollars.
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Actually they are a bit more than $6.95 now as there are now yearly price hikes due to ICANN caving in to VeriSign's demands.
 
RastaLulz said:
/registers every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" infront of it
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I actually did that, around 1999. I wrote a program to check 'WHOIS' on every word in the dictionary, by itself, as well as 'i' and 'e' prefixes and also AAAA.com through ZZZZ.com.

Ended up with a nice little portfolio. Sold some already (iCIA.com, eMrs.com, ePocket.com). Still have iMyself.com (iCloud + me.com?), iGown.com, AAAB.com, AAAX.com, etc.

Morod said:
I wish I had been clever enough to register iCloud.com a long time ago. 🙁

"WWDC '11 will be amazing." Indeed! 🙂
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I'll be there!

backinblack875 said:
HOLY ****!! i need to start registering domain names with "i"s in front of them guessing future apple products 😀
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Probably a little late now, but you never know!
 
Just crazy how much some companies pay for domain names ... (I think the record holder are still some XXX names)
 
GeekLawyer said:
The ducks are all lining up in a tidy row.
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quack quack.

and i am not liking the price tag speculation. i want to keep MoMe, but not if the services are bundled to a costly storage locker that i can get at amazon for free/cheaper.

i hope this all works out.
 
arn said:
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).

arn
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Correct... I've seen it take up to 72 hours to propagate. Most the time it's less.. 12-18 hours
 
MacToddB said:
I actually did that, around 1999. I wrote a program to check 'WHOIS' on every word in the dictionary, by itself, as well as 'i' and 'e' prefixes and also AAAA.com through ZZZZ.com.

Ended up with a nice little portfolio. Sold some already (iCIA.com, eMrs.com, ePocket.com). Still have iMyself.com (iCloud + me.com?), iGown.com, AAAB.com, AAAX.com, etc.



I'll be there!



Probably a little late now, but you never know!
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Did you manage to sell any for millions?
 
RastaLulz said:
$4,500,000?!?!?!

/registers every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" infront of it
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/tries to register every word in the dictionary with the letter "i" infront of it only to find that someone else already did that years ago.

Fixed that for ya 😀
 
millerb7 said:
Correct... I've seen it take up to 72 hours to propagate. Most the time it's less.. 12-18 hours
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If you're on a decent ISP or use OpenDNS it shouldn't take much more than a half hour. If you're on OpenDNS just refresh it via their website.
 
CloudMe sounds like something Apple may have acquired to go with MobileMe, I wonder if they just swapped domain names as part of this deal 🙂 I think iCloud sounds better.
 
THX1139 said:
This is the reason that we have domain squatters. People who buy up domains for cheap and have no use for them. Then when you go to register something of interest to you, they want to sell you the $6.95 domain name for thousands (or millions) of dollars.
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Or you can go with Namesecure.com, and find out when its time for renewal, that your domain's been bought by some company called Black Ice Domains out of Hong Kong, who will squat on it for years & offer to sell it to you for $10k+.

...and then you do some research and find that the reason they were able to buy it before you had a chance to get it, is because Black Ice Domains is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namesecure.

They're stealing their own customers domains and holding them ransom for 10x their worth.

Awesome.
 
It's a dumb name. Only Geeks get into "the cloud". Cloud denotes murky, dreary, confusion. How about .net 😉
 
Morod said:
I wish I had been clever enough to register iCloud.com a long time ago. 🙁

Apple will renew their registration for the name in 2018, I suppose. If Apple is still using that brand.

"WWDC '11 will be amazing." Indeed! 🙂
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Yes it was brilliant on their part to buy that domain.
That's the ultimate buy low and sell high experience. They must be so thrilled over at Xcerion.
 
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