“Cupertino-based computing giant [Apple Inc.] is rumored to be a likely buyer of the domain iCloud.com,” Om Malik reports for GigaOM.
“Until recently, iCloud.com was a domain name and a storage-as-a-cloud service owned by Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion,” Malik reports. “Xcerion’s iCloud service has just been rebranded to CloudMe, and the company acquired the CloudMe.com domain on April 5, 2011.”
Malik reports, “My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
With Apple already using MobileMe, you’d think that cloudme would be as good a name as icloud. Neither is great.
What about MobileMe????
4.5 million? did Apple find change in the couch to buy iCloud?
Pretty smart to get “CloudMe.com” in case their best customer – Apple – ever decides to expand the “Me” brand. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll have another $4.5 million or so laying around in a year or so…
Almost ready for opening day at the BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM.
• got the land with lots of power and water
• got the first building up
• put in thousands of never been seen before blade servers
• planted some grass and shrubs
• got the name
Ready to turn on this puppy! (Do you think anyone will notice the super computer cluster that is in here too?)
This Farm, by the way, willnot have a Farmer in the Dell!.
Now to build 3 or 4 satellites and hook ’em up…
It’s going to be so powerful that when they turn it on, the lights will dim across the mid-Atlantic and the change in brightness will be visible from the space shuttle.
Un-fing-believable. 4.5 Mil? With that kind of money, Apple should be cybersquating every concievable combination of the iXXXXX.com names? iFart iHope iWish iMe iYou iWhat iEyeCaptain……… For 4.5 million they could cybersquat 562,000 domain names. I guess if you are lucky enough to have registered a name that Apple wants, then you are a rich person.
Um.. Homer.. did you read the article? It was not owned by a cybersquatting “person” it was owned by a commercial business who was using it to make money. I don’t know what their revenues are but 4.5 million may not necessarily be a huge amount for the company, nice, certainly but if they were already making revenue off the name, you have to factor in what the cost for giving up their name was.
Actually, cloudMe has been picked up by the same guys who just sold Apple the iCloud.
I personally like iCloud far better than MobileMe. I just don’t like the general sound of most things *Me; that includes, payMe, FeedMe, HelpMe, and you know the rest.
iCloud, meh, but still infinitely better.
The are welcome to “me.”
.Mac had to change because of the iOS devices, but MobileMe is a big step down. Sounds like a self-centered adolescent. “The cloud” is suddenly on everyone’s lips, and should remain in use like “the net” or “the web”. $4.5M sounds like a lot for a string of six letters, but Job’s has paid Apple Corps a lot more just because he told the truth about where he got the idea for the company’s name.
Au contraire, the “cloud” is still a bit of an esoteric term. I’m no great fan of “MobieMe”, but at least it sounds consumer-friendly.
“Mobile” even.
As for Apple Corps, the payout was because there had been an agreement Apple Computer/Inc wouldn’t go into music, not because of the name itself.
I emailed Woz about the origins of the Apple name years ago and he didn’t know!
I held the domain name iShit.com, just incase, but Dell made me an offer I couldn’t resist.
Hahahhahahahhh…
Payment must have come out of Apple’s petty cash container!
iMe.com is still up for sale 🙂
Apple rumoured to have bought iCloud domain name
http://www.bangobang.com/2011/04/apple-rumoured-to-have-bought-icloud.html