pcrumors.com redirects to MacRumors?

[Flying Llama]

http://www.pcrumors.com/

[RANT]

Why did MacRumors buy this domain? Macs aren't usually considered PCs (yes silly since they ARE personal computers), however, this could have been done to convert rumor-hungry PC users to type this in and discover Apple (for real), or could have just been bought by Arn to squash competition...

[/RANT]

Anyway, why? (Sorry if this has already been asked, I did a search but nothing came up...)
Oh, and as a sidenote... are there any other super-secret MacRumors domains?

EDIT: You mean there aren't any RANT tags? We could sure use those!

 

[Blue Velvet]

http://www.dellrumors.com/


Not entirely sure who's behind this one. But I have my suspicions...

 

[ham_man]

Whoever did do this needs to be given the Medal of Utter Hilarity. Quite funny...

 

[edesignuk]

Whoever did do this needs to be given the Medal of Utter Hilarity. Quite funny...

I think that's kinda the point. It's Arn with his humor cap on No need to [RANT] about it Flying Llama

 

[killuminati]

http://www.dellrumors.com/


Not entirely sure who's behind this one. But I have my suspicions...

HAHA, thats hilarious!

I love the user comments.

 

[Flying Llama]

Do a search for pcrumors on google, and it says: did you mean macrumors?

 

[Flying Llama]

This is similar to what apple has done:

**deep breath**

apple.com (the usual)
imac.com (could cause confusion...)
mammals.org (cheeta, puma, jaguar, panther, tiger...)
newton.com (the return of the newton!)
iphone.org (no, it's been there for a while )
digitalhub.com
ripmixburn.com (wtf??)
macmate.com (hmm...)
eworld.com (eworld??)
xserve.com (more confusion)
dvdstudiopro.com (and more)



Maybe there are some others, but those all lead to the front page.

And I thought MacRumors was overdoing it with pcrumors.com, applerumors.com and maybe another one...

 

[Flying Llama]

I think that's kinda the point. It's Arn with his humor cap on No need to [RANT] about it Flying Llama

And that's me with my humor cap...

...

...okay I need a new humor cap

 

[killuminati]

This is similar to what apple has done:

**deep breath**

apple.com (the usual)
imac.com (could cause confusion...)
mammals.org (cheeta, puma, jaguar, panther, tiger...)
newton.com (the return of the newton!)
iphone.org (no, it's been there for a while )
digitalhub.com
ripmixburn.com (wtf??)
macmate.com (hmm...)
eworld.com (eworld??)
xserve.com (more confusion)
dvdstudiopro.com (and more)

And I thought MacRumors was overdoing it with pcrumors.com, applerumors.com and maybe another one...

Haha mammals.org...wtf?!?!

Theres also:

applecomputer.com (main page)
appleimac.com (main page)
powerbook.com (powerbook page)
applestore.com (store page)
finalcutpro.com (fcp page)
ipod.com (ipod page)
itunes.com (itunes page)
quicktime.com (quicktime page)

 

[Thom_Edwards]

This is similar to what apple has done:

ripmixburn.com (wtf??)
macmate.com (hmm...)
eworld.com (eworld??)

i though i would comment on the ones you had questions about...

ripmixburn was the first big push for itunes and apple's digital hub marketing.

i have not a clue about macmate, and woud be interested to see what comments someone could make on this.

eworld is pretty old school. it was apple's attempt at an aol-like online service.

 

[ham_man]

I searched on Google for the whole pcrumors=macrumors thing and found this. Kinda interesting that arn discusses this very url...

 

[Flying Llama]

i though i would comment on the ones you had questions about...

ripmixburn was the first big push for itunes and apple's digital hub marketing.

i have not a clue about macmate, and woud be interested to see what comments someone could make on this.

eworld is pretty old school. it was apple's attempt at an aol-like online service.

Ah, that clears most of it up, thanks!
Now about the mammals...