After reading “Apple to debut ‘MacBook Air’ on Tuesday?” MacDailyNews reader “mango” did a little research on “MacBook Air” and found that it’s an Apple owned domain name.
The Whois domain name lookup won’t list any info using macbookair.com or .net, but macbookair.org shows the address:
Admin Street1: 303 Second Street
Admin Street2: Suite 800N
Admin City: San Francisco
Admin State/Province: CA
And macbookair.us, macbookair.biz, and macbookair.info show the same address, but with additional information:
Billing Street1: 1 Infinite Loop
Billing Street2: Mail Stop 3-TM
Billing City: Cupertino
Billing State/Province: CA
Domain Registration Date: Fri Jan 11 22:49:59 GMT 2008
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mango” for the heads up.]
Not much to read into this, except perhaps Apple protecting some names against cybersquatters (or vandals).
Besides, by around this time tomorrow, we’ll know everything.
hmmmm…. time will tell.
not sure about the name.
I bet Steve hates it when this stuff leaks out.
Or I wonder if he has mellowed a little?
Stop this! When I’m trying to decide on the type of wash for tomorrow’s Levis, I can’t be distracted by these leaks.
Damn it. I decide. No one else. No one.
MDN: you are about to suffer an unexplainable outage. One more of these and you’re toast.
Besides, the majority of my sheep in the queue on the street so they can’t see what you are posting anyhow. Oh, that’s wrong, they all have my phone and ARE reading the stuff from these leakers.
I’ll get ’em all, though. Boom! There goes the AT&T;signal at Moscone and it won’t be back until I’m ready and I’m not ready until I decide on which wash.
It worked for Nike. I wonder if Michael Jordan will join Steve onstage?
You are all fired.
I’m surprised people have been getting so worked up the name of the product. I think it’s fresh and clean.
Just think, they could name it the MacBook XC6754 like more competitor products.
9.95 buys Apple a stupid name.
MacBook Air
I like the name. Usually when a rumor leaks and various Mac fanboys can’t stand the notion of it, it’s true.
@ deepdish
“I bet Steve hates it when this stuff leaks out.”
“isn’t it funny how sometimes ships leak from the top?” -Steve Jobs
why not (logo)AirBook and (logo)AirBookPro.
Curiosity is in the Air.
Why did Apple buy the domain after the rumors of the macbook air started?
Fifty dollars to keep the hounds off the real scent?
We’ll find out tomorrow.
I was in a meeting once, with my boss at the time and some people who were creating this thing called a DVR. They were trying to settle on a name. The name they finally settled on (with urging from my boss) was TiVO. I thought, “Gee that’s a dumb name.” Doesn’t even mean anything.
Apples way of toying with us… Or maybe not ?
On another note; I´m off to make lasagna..
Way to go MacDailyNews, it readers, and ma’ man Mango!
Apple Air has arrived…
http://ThunkDifferent.com
Mmmmm, lasagna.
Were any of you posting on Mac forums back when the iPod was introduced? Not only was the iPod itself panned as a useless toy, but the name was, if you read what fans were saying, the dumbest thing even devised using roman letters.
Whenever I saw stuff like that, I bought more stock.
This doesn’t necessarily mean anything, because Apple has purchased domain names in the past, without releasing a corresponding product.
For example, iPhone.com was owned by apple for something like ten years before they announced the iPhone, and I’m still waiting for Apple to announce their improvement on mammals! (hint–http://mammals.org)
I want to see what Steve has to tell us.
If this is the big news. Lets hope there is more to all this.
It’s a new line of fragrances. You can give any old laptop that “new MacBook smell” with a couple squirts from a bottle of MacBook Air by Apple.
Tomorrow – never comes until the next day.
w8nc
$9.95 also allows someone to buy it and register it with the Apple address… just to keep the rumors spinning LOL.
Apple IS toying with US all. Letting all these RUMORS fly around in the AIR. Apple has PLANTED this and on the NET to teach us not to mess with the MEDIA. A lesson we refuse to learn.
ChrissyOne is right.
It will work. It will grab the imaginations of the public and a year from now we won’t remember when there wasn’t a MacBook Air.
Could be worse. Could be the new Apple Zune with AirSquirt or something.
LOL.. Isn’t Mango a character played by Katen?? on Saturday Night Live?