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MacBookAir.com Now Apple's. MacBook Air in Stores Friday?

mac-er said:
Cybersquatting is illegal and there would be no MR anymore if they did charge.

It is a little in the grey side in my mind in this situation that is was registered by MR.
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It was registered based on a rumor. As far as I heard, Apple hadn't registered Macbook Air as a trademark when the domain was registered. If it isn't a trademark, it isn't Cybersquatting.
 
arn said:
Apple had registered iPhone.org well before... iPhone.com, however, was owned by a 3rd party and later acquired by Apple after the iPhone launch.

arn
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Okay, so iPhone.org was possessed before MacWorld, and I still remember, to this day, the rumors about that domain. How people KNEW that an iPhone was coming because of this. Did Apple stop doing that after the iPhone was introduced? Seems to me like a huge rumor buster.:apple:
 
Pippen Man said:
Okay, so iPhone.org was possessed before MacWorld, and I still remember, to this day, the rumors about that domain. How people KNEW that an iPhone was coming because of this. Did Apple stop doing that after the iPhone was introduced? Seems to me like a huge rumor buster.:apple:
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I'm guessing there were more contributing factors to the belief that a phone device was en route than just the creation of a website... anyway, no one was sure they'd use the iPhone name because it was being used by another product
 
jnc said:
I'm guessing there were more contributing factors to the belief that a phone device was en route than just the creation of a website... anyway, no one was sure they'd use the iPhone name because it was being used by another product
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I think the rumors ended up naming the product than vice-versa. There was so much hype about "iPhone" for years... that I don't think it left them much of a choice. It was a good idea to continue on the iPhone hype. People have been calling the Apple phone the "iPhone" for years... and the talk of it in the months ahead of Macworld was persistent.

arn
 
wow this was really nice of you guys to just give them the domain... I really hope they at least gave you one of each of the new products released that day.
 
Friday should be an enjoyable day... a trip to the local Apple store sounds nice. I'm looking forward to putting my eyes and hands on one of those new Air thingies. :)
 
arn said:
I think the rumors ended up naming the product than vice-versa. There was so much hype about "iPhone" for years... that I don't think it left them much of a choice. It was a good idea to continue on the iPhone hype. People have been calling the Apple phone the "iPhone" for years... and the talk of it in the months ahead of Macworld was persistent.

arn
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Has there been a product like that that Apple named based on the consistent rumors? I wasn't that much of a Apple person back in 2001, but what did everyone say about this "iPod?" Did people predict this name, and seal the domain? Could domain naming be a rumor source now? Type in a few web address's "iphone2.com" or "MacTablet.com?":apple:
 
It should be noted that, although a very nice gesture, MacRumors had little choice in handing Apple the domain. Registering a domain under another company's trademark, or anticipated trademark, in hopes of monetary gain is against the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

I'm curious, was the domain requested, or offered? In other words, who made the first move?
 
mac-er said:
Cybersquatting is illegal and there would be no MR anymore if they did charge.

It is a little in the grey side in my mind in this situation that is was registered by MR.
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Last time I checked plenty of companies do that. Giving the domain for free is a good sign of faith, and from this peace offering can improve the relationship between MR and Apple :D.
 
Just wondering, but why all the secretive stuff with Apple? Wouldn't they want to create "buzz" before products come out? I just think about the video game systems and how much buzz those create before they are released then you have people knocking each other over to get them.
 
Pippen Man said:
Has there been a product like that that Apple named based on the consistent rumors? I wasn't that much of a Apple person back in 2001, but what did everyone say about this "iPod?" Did people predict this name, and seal the domain? Could domain naming be a rumor source now? Type in a few web address's "iphone2.com" or "MacTablet.com?":apple:
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iPhone would be the only one I could recall happening like that. No one knew about the iPod name until one site called it 4 days prior to the iPod's launch.

https://www.macrumors.com/2001/10/19/hitsdailydouble-who-rumor/

First reply: "yeah right. lame name."

Humorously, we were still having the same domain name registration debate in 2001:

[iPod.com] was just registered a few days ago. First of all, I don't think that Apple would name anything with such a lame name. Secondly, if they did, they would altleast register the url....
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arn
 
superfula said:
It was registered based on a rumor. As far as I heard, Apple hadn't registered Macbook Air as a trademark when the domain was registered. If it isn't a trademark, it isn't Cybersquatting.
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If your theme was, "for rumors that spread like the wind" or any slightly plausible rationale for why you want to use that term you'd probably be fine.

Personally, I would have had Macrumos trade the domain for a promise to get future models for testing at the same time they are sent to other reviewers (Mossberg, engadget, gizmodo, etc.). Not in advance, just at the same time.
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
I don't understand it. They wanted macbookair.com but not macbook.com, macbookpro.com, imac.com, macpro.com, etc.?
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Well, who in the hell actually opens up their internet browser and types a computer name into the address bar?

DellXPS423Plus.com ?

Apple Legal was probably like "Oh, I see that Arn has been @#$%ing around with our intellectual property again based on knowledge gleaned from jabbering iEmployees. Time to send out the 'gimme' letter again."

Not that any person of distinguished aesthetic sensibilities would conceive of naming his venture "macbookair" in any capitalization or separation, but for some of the others it's believable. Mac's Professional Design, for instance. If the iStuff had preceded the iMac instead of the other way around, Mac might have made a personal website called iMac, much like an illustrious member of our forums goes by the name iGary (and there's an iRobot, too, unless I've been getting into the mushrooms again). Of course, it'd hurt your cybersquatting case if you were running a rumors site that predicted that Mac Pro and iMac were likely to be the names of upcoming products...

So yeah, I agree. I think. The truth is, probably no one really cared all that much aside from the need to protect the trademark once somone announced that they'd bought the domain. I know that Apple has rather low standards for their customers aside from their wallets, but I don't think they really expect that much business from people who visit macbookair.com for all of their MacBook Air purchasing needs.

Of course, I've been wrong before.
 
arn said:
iPhone would be the only one I could recall happening like that. No one knew about the iPod name until one site called it 4 days prior to the iPod's launch.

https://www.macrumors.com/2001/10/19/hitsdailydouble-who-rumor/

First reply: "yeah right. lame name."

Humorously, we were still having the same domain name registration debate in 2001:




arn
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Ha. "Lame name." Little did that guy know that it was this so called iPod that gave Apple a resurgence and basically saved the company.:rolleyes: Do you wonder why Apple bought the iPhone.org domain so early and not for other products? Like revolutionary and everything, but what made the iPhone so special. Look at the MacBook Air. This iPhone must have seriously been Steve's bread and butter.:cool::apple:
 
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