What is Apple doing with this?

[Quark]

This may have been covered before, but I just came across this on another rumor site [puts his head down in shame] and was wondering if anyone here knew what it means:

www.mammals.org

Try it. Type it in. See what happens.

[confused]Quark:\

 

[jefhatfield]

last time it didn't load

i have no idea what this is about

 

[Beigean]

Perhaps a site at this address will show some "results" from Apple's relationship with Genentech

 

[Classic]

Whois turned up this....

Registrant:
Apple Computer, Inc. (MAMMALS2-DOM)
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

Domain Name: MAMMALS.ORG

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Eddings, Kenneth (KAE8) kafe99@EXCITE.COM
KAFE
2138 King Court
Santa CLara, CA 95051
US
408 247-3926 408 974-3103

Record expires on 22-Jul-2003.
Record created on 22-Jul-1998.
Database last updated on 16-Jul-2002 21:46:59 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NSERVER.APPLE.COM 17.254.0.50
NSERVER2.APPLE.COM 17.254.0.59

*************************************

Note, the record was created in 1998....

 

[King Cobra]

Hey, Classic, do you have any 'fo on www.iphone.org or can you find any?

This is some wierd pattern...

 

[szark]

www.iphone.org

Registrant:
Apple Computer, Inc. (IPHONE11-DOM)
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
US

Domain Name: iphone.org


Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Eddings, Kenneth (KE557) eddingsk@APPLE.COM
Apple Computer, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
M/S 60-DR
Cupertino, CA 95014
408 974-4286 (FAX) 408 974-1560

Record expires on 15-Dec-2003.
Record created on 15-Dec-1999.
Database last updated on 16-Jul-2002 22:16:55 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NSERVER.APPLE.COM 17.254.0.50
NSERVER2.APPLE.COM 17.254.0.59

 

[szark]

Even stranger, according to the Internet Archive, both of these links have been pointing to the Apple site since they were registered:

www.mammals.org

www.iphone.org


Interesting to see how the site looked back then...

 

[barkmonster]

It's a little known fact that apple and Genentech have been working closely with national parks all over the world on a revolutionary new species to populate areas of country side that have very little wildlife with their new project iYak it has glossy while fur and it's an incredibly friendly creature

 

[Mr. Anderson]

mammals.com was created in 98 - i can't imagine that is was available till then, they had to have bought it out from someone or it freed up. But what mammals have to do with apple is beyond me.....