Apple goes on a domain name shopping spree

Apple has bought at least 50 domain names in the last three days. While many of the domain names are related to features of Lion or iOS 5 that were introduced at WWDC on Monday, it's unlikely Apple will use most of the domain names as active URLs.

Instead, Apple probably just snapped them up to keep squatters from getting them. After all, it's got to be tiring going after every single person who buys a domain with one of your trademarks in it.

Here's a complete list of the domain names:

airplaymirroring.com
appleairplaymirroring.com
appledocumentsinthecloud.com
appleicloudphotos.com
appleicloudphotostream.com
appleimessage.com
appleimessaging.com
appleitunesinthecloud.com
appleitunesmatch.com
applepcfree.com
applephotostream.com
icloudstorageapi.com
icloudstorageapis.com
icloudstorageapi.com
icloudstorageapis.com
ios5newsstand.com
ios5pcfree.com
ipaddocumentsinthecloud.com
ipadimessage.com
ipadpcfree.com
iphonedocumentsinthecloud.com
iphoneimessage.com
iphonepcfree.com
itunesinthecloud.com
itunesmatching.com
pcfreeipad.com
pcfreeiphone.com
applegestures.com
appleiosv.com
applelaunchpad.com
applemailconversationview.com
appleversions.com
conversationview.com
macairdrop.com
macgestures.com
macmailconversationview.com
macosxlionairdrop.com
macosxlionlaunchpad.com
macosxlionmissioncontrol.com
macosxlionresume.com
macosxlionversions.com
macosxversions.com
mailconversationview.com
osxlionairdrop.com
osxlionconversationview.com
osxliongestures.com
osxlionlaunchpad.com
osxlionresume.com
osxlionversions.com
osxresume.com

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invaderzimaus

Sometimes Apple uses these kind of domain names to redirect to parts of apple.com.

June 09 2011 at 7:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Federico - Bfred.it

uhhh what's the point in buying macmailconversationview.com ?

June 09 2011 at 7:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gbuell

Couple of repeats in there (12-14, 13-15).

June 09 2011 at 5:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shannon Doherty

Even conversationview.com?

June 09 2011 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gustavo Santana

no ipod domains huh ? my guess is next iphone will be thin enough to be and "ipod", and they will sell them unlocked for you to use it as an ipod or an iphone droping the ipod touch line

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Matt Jeffryes

No way. The iPhone hardware costs far more than the iPod touch hardware to make. An unlocked iPhone in countries where they are available costs more than twice as much as an iPod touch. The GPS chip, radios, IPS display and higher quality camera do not come cheap.

June 09 2011 at 5:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gbuell

They didn't announce anything new for the iPod the other day, so they don't have any domains they need to snap up for it.

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