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Re: Apple's domains

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Post by glhaynes » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 1:23 AM UTC

michaelpinto wrote: post #18

pixelcort wrote: post #4

My favorite is http://mammals.org .

it seems like it was part of an old project: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Apple-purchase-Mammals-org-and-...

It's been a long time (obviously), but I think I recall mammals.org being registered right around the same time they were starting to use names like Darwin and Carbon.

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by draftable » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 1:30 AM UTC

ben1040 wrote: post #23

I like the domain for "MacOS X Leon."

Leon is spanish for lion

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by alasano » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #30

Such a shame they don't own aapl.com, mac.org & macintosh.{com,org}... Off topic: I've noticed that recently, Google's first result for 'Mac' has (mysteriously) changed from "apple.com/mac" to "maccosmetics.com"!

That's very interesting. Seems like an unfeasible task to outrank Apple using that keyword.

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by jowiar » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 1:32 AM UTC

ben1040 wrote: post #23

I like the domain for "MacOS X Leon."

English:Lion::Español:León

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by philipdlang » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 1:53 AM UTC

Check out all the microsoft ones at the bottom...

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by jrockway » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

What really scares me is that somewhere, some code that looks like "%matrix = (); do 'init'; ..." exists. That's one way to implement config files, I guess...

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by gauravk92 » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 2:14 AM UTC

palish wrote: post #25

spitfire wrote: post #10

That list shows a huge amount of earnt knowledge. Notice the www.applesmartcovers.com domains? That sort of stuff, while obvious in hindsight, probably nets them hundreds of $K alone.

Sorry, could you expand on that? It sounds interesting, but I don't understand the logic.

I'm not too sure either, but my guess is in implied value, where without an apple and iPad and smart cover, the domain is worth $5/mo but with it, it's obvious prime Internet real estate and worth a lot more. As for how much money apple actually makes from this domain, I'm pretty confident nothing.

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by steventruong » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 2:25 AM UTC

I'm curious on how many TLD extensions Apple owns for "apple" i.e. apple.com, apple.net, etc

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by conradev » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:05 AM UTC

apike wrote: post #14

This is only a subset of Apple's less important domains. For example, iwork.com, apple.ca, itunes.com, etc. are not here.

However, each redirecting domain has this file viewable, so most are publicly viewable. For example, http://itunes.com/init.

Re: Apple's domains

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Post by jedediah » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:16 AM UTC

For a far more extensive list, see http://www.aboutus.org/Apple.com#redirectory-