AlthingsD.com: Apple Buying iCloud.com, The Story is True

Posted on April 29, 2011

AllthingsD.com has confirmed with the Seller of the domain name, the Sweden-based computing company Xcerion has sold the domain iCloud.com to Apple.

This confirms the story reported by  GigaOm first reported Thursday, “though the Seller declined to say whether its rumored $4.5 million price tag was accurate.”

Apple has not always bought the matching domain for its products and still does not own ipad.com a domains which gets over 50,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com nor iTouch.com.

So I’m going to say that the entire story sounds good including the purchase price which would have been denied by one side or the other by now if wholly inaccurate.

The question becomes now what is Apple going to do with iCloud.com.

What is that product going to be?

We all know about plans for a music and photo locker system but somehow I think that an expansion of mobileme could have done the same thing.

So I think Apple’s plans are bigger, much bigger.

Could this be a project that leads to some sort of social networking space that include all your music, photos, friends and contacts and allows interaction?

Apple launched Ping a while back a interactive lets call it social space where you can share your like and dislikes of music, but its not HUGE.

I have the feeling that iCloud.com will be HUGE.

Once we find out what Apple’s Plan for it is.

If the purchase price does get confirmed at some point we will have the Largest domain purchase for 2011 officially hit the books

 

 

 

26 thoughts on “AlthingsD.com: Apple Buying iCloud.com, The Story is True”

  13. I think most domainers missed the boat with the “Cloud” names (to busy with 3d and .co he he) , most good ones were taken by tech companies long ago…
    The CEO for cloud.com stated that adquiring the name was a great decision gave them “instant credibility”

  15. Well I hate to be the downside to apple but What happens if Apples does launch ‘iCloud’ and it is like ‘MobileMess’ in 2008 where Apple tried to go forth making a online service for e-mails, calendars and contacts. It glitched and 20,000 people was in a email blackout for a week?

  16. Does this stuff explain the ever increasing inquiries for Mcloud.com, Oklahoma. I cannot think of one company that starts with “M” that might be behind soma of those inquires – can you ?

  17. Randall

    Seems like Apple has done quite well since 2008 so if there is an issue I will assume they will get it fixed and come back stronger

  18. “Does this stuff explain the ever increasing inquiries for Mcloud.com, Oklahoma. I cannot think of one company that starts with “M” that might be behind soma of those inquires – can you ?”

    I think I read somewhere that Ronald Mc Donald was getting into the hosting business.

  19. I think this is another step for their Cloud OS, not just a cloud for music or anything, but more than just storage… they are planning a cloud operating system for a while…

    BTW, the same seller also has iCloudOS.com, coincidence?

  21. @Dean
    That is huge – and likely right on – where I figured:
    Macy’s was getting into Cloud Computing
    or maybe McCormick and Schmick s Seafood Restaurants

    Brian

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